Jam and Jelly Time.....

They past couple months, we have been blessed with some delicious fruits and berries.

A friend gave us some plums from his plum tree. I was beyond happy to restock our canning

pantry with some decicious red plum jelly....my absolute favorite.

Another friend picked both she and I  a gallon of blackberries and all the ingredients to make jam in exchange for me making the  jam. Yesterday, I made 16 jars of blackberry jam.....delicious.

Our neighbor gave us 3/4 of a bushel of peaches from his peach tree. I made peach jam for the first time ever......taste like candy....yummy.

I was also given a gallon of frozen mayhaw berries and two gallons of frozen blueberries. I seriously need to get busy making some mayhaw jelly and blueberry jam.

I always hope to make enough that I can skip a year on some things, but I love to give it away as gifts. I had lots of jam and jelly in my canning pantry last year and ended up with just a few jars left. I actually ran out of my favorite plum jelly.

Looking forward to refilling the jam and jelly shelves again.

 

 And, the canning begins.......

 

Yesterday officially began canning season around the Henson place.

I canned 10 quarts of Blue Lake bush beans from our garden. I love preserving

these delicious green beans for my family to have throughout the winter. Canning 

itself is not hard to do, but the process is of it all is long and tiring. In my opinion,

it is worth every tiring minute.