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Posted This On The Harvest Forum

10 years ago

But thought I'd try on this forum, too.

Last night I prepped the strawberries for this and let them macerate overnight with the sugar and lemon juice. Do you think it would be okay to let them continue for another night?

Had errands to run earlier in the day and the tractor actually started so I got all but a small strip mowed on one side of the front when I ran out of gas. Put the rest of the gas in it and returned the gas can to the storage place. On the way back I see gas spewing out of the bottom front of the tractor. Boo!!! I still have that strip and the entire back to get done and the grass is so, so tall. Tomorrow I'll have to see if JD will make a service call and hope its a hose that needs to be replaced.

I've already gotten into my robe, and secured the chickens for the evening. Today my foot is acting up so I'm barely hobbling and really don't want to stand on it to finish the preserves if they can be left for another night.

Last night I put up some strawberry rhubarb jam and went out today to buy a bunch of rhubarb to freeze for when its out of season. I have several other jams and preserves to make as well, but tonight I don't feel like doing anything.

Madonna

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sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
10 years ago
Get them in the coldest part of your fridge and all will be fine. Or just freeze all of it and wait for a sane day...lol...not laughing at your day but i just had similar with the yard work and mowing....cold rainy spring will do that.

My mower started first time and happily went at it and completely forgot all that was cooking....and what i was doing inside. Rain was predicted yet again but never came so i got caught up in outdoor projects.
bcskye
Original Author
10 years ago
Thanks, sleevendog. I posted pretty late this evening. They are in the fridge right now and I just may go ahead and freeze them since tomorrow I might be lucky and find out it's just a hose on my tractor so that will call for a trip a couple of towns north of here. I'm sure I won't feel like doing preserves by the time I get everything fixed.

Yes, this rainy weather has been ridiculous. I told the young man who's parents live across the road that I wasn't ready for my garden to be tilled, but he ignored me and tilled it about a month ago. It hasn't dried up yet and the weeds are coming back. At least the potatoes I got out in my potato bin are thriving and I'm eating ripe strawberries off the plants that are still in the flat I bought them in. I don't think we will be getting more rain for about a week. That will be so nice. I still have a chicken run to build, too.

Madonna
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bcskye
Original Author
10 years ago
The strawberries went into the freezer.
annie1992
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
Well, I was too late on this one, you posted just before me, LOL. I agree, Madonna, stick them in the freezer and do them another time, although they'd be OK in the fridge overnight if you really thought you want to deal with them.

We just got manure spread on the garden, it'll be tilled maybe next week. I do have peas up about 2 inches, the asparagus is growing frantically and the potatoes are just now coming up. I bought a flat of Rutgers today for canning tomatoes, I planted Great White, SunGold, Big Rainbow, Garden Peach and Pineapple, as well as some Romanian Sweet Peppers. I bought a dozen red cabbage plants for Peppi too, I'm determined that this year I'll protect them from the rabbits! The rhubarb is nearly ready to use.

And I have to repair my chicken run too, so I'll be thinking of you and your building project!

Annie
lascatx
10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago
I saw this after the fact too, but I made some strawberry jam with berries that were to macerate overnight, they have a quick boil and macerate again -- then a short cook and can. Out of three batches, two sat an extra night. I think it might have been the second noght, but am not sure if it was in both cases. Regardless, it did not have a negative mpact on the jam. If anything it might have set better/easier.

BTW, I've frozen prepped fruit too -- and unprepped fruit or tomatoes when there just asn't time to do everything right then. For anything that is going to get cooked, it works fine.

Hope your foot is feeling better now.

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