Gardening chat

[wiperhunter2]

I don't have a freeze dryer, so I wouldn't know about that.  I did dehydrate lots of Apricots and Plumbs that turned out very nice.

I pack the peaches in the bottles cavity side down, pour in the syrup, and cook in a water bath for 30 minutes, 25 for pints.  I ended up with 85 bottles.  I also made peach nectar for the first time.  It turned out very good, but I had to put it in the blender to get the consistency I wanted.

I made peach pie filling, and lined the pie plate with saran wrap, poured the filling in it and put it in the freezer. after it's frozen I vacuum seal it.  Then when I want to make a pie, I just have to make the crust, set the frozen peaches in it and cook it. I did 3 of those.  I also made 4 pies to eat now, which we have been enjoying.

Wow, that is a lot of bottled peaches, good idea on freezing the peach pies filling for future use too. By the way, why do you put the open peach halves down?
 We either Freeze dry our, or sprinkle fruit fresh on them, then freeze them. We make smoothies out of our frozen peaches and eat the freeze died ones as snacks during the Winter.