{"id":4911,"date":"2015-08-11T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4911"},"modified":"2015-08-11T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T17:13:13","slug":"q-and-a-canning-pickled-peppers-and-garlic-and-tomatoes-not-ripening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2015\/08\/11\/q-and-a-canning-pickled-peppers-and-garlic-and-tomatoes-not-ripening\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: canning pickled peppers and garlic and tomatoes not ripening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canning pickled garlic and peppers<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have read many canning recipes for pickled garlic or pickled peppers. We don’t like pickled anything. Can you can these just using water? I used to freeze the peppers but now being off the grid, I don’t have freezer room. If these can be canned with just water, what would I process them at?<\/p>\n

Joni Warren
\nCanyon City, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n

Joni, you really need my book, Growing and Canning Your Own Food<\/a>. Basic canning directions for sweet peppers are: Stem, core, and remove seeds and ribs. If you don’t want to can with skins on, as I do, you can plunge the whole peppers into boiling water for 3 minutes, then into cold water. The skins will slip quite easily. Then stem, core, etc. Pack gently into hot jars, leaving 1 inch of headspace. Add \u00bd tsp. salt and \u00bd tsp. vinegar or lemon juice (improves flavor) to each pint. Fill jars with boiling water, leaving 1 inch of headspace. Process pints and half pints at 10 pounds pressure for 35 minutes in a pressure canner. If you live at an altitude above 1,000 feet, consult your canning book for instructions on increasing your pressure to suit your altitude. <\/p>\n

Garlic is not recommended for canning, although you can use it in mixed recipes as a spice. It dehydrates beautifully and you can make your own garlic powder with a blender or grinder. Peppers dehydrate very well too. — Jackie<\/p>\n

Tomatoes not ripening <\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the first year I have grown Bill Bean tomatoes in my raised garden beds. The plants are huge and healthy and have lots of huge healthy green tomatoes but I have not gotten one ripe tomato as yet. We have had a very mild cool summer, could that be the reason or do you think they may be overcrowded in the raised beds?<\/p>\n

Brenda Burns-Boggs
\nKettering, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n

Cool weather does slow down the tomatoes. Our own are a little late this year as we had a very cool, wet spring. Hang in there and you’ll soon be eating ripe tomatoes! If you prune away some of the lower leaves so the tomatoes get more sun, that’ll hurry them up some. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canning pickled garlic and peppers I have read many canning recipes for pickled garlic or pickled peppers. We don’t like pickled anything. Can you can these just using water? I used to freeze the peppers but now being off the grid, I don’t have freezer room. If these can be canned with just water, what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}