We definitely have tons of food rolling in from the garden and now I am starting to get creative in saving it all!
Many of my gardening neighbors have already pulled their gardens out but I just cant imagine tearing out my plants when they are still cranking out so much yummy stuff.
Of course before I get to processing all the peppers I will be saving the seeds. This year was a strange year and many seed companies actually RAN OUT OF SEEDS! That is just insane to me but I want to make sure that next year I will be fine getting my garden going. So I save the seeds from my peppers before chopping them up.
After the seeds are saved I then slice and chop all the peppers. This definitely took a while because the basket of peppers in the video is only a third of the peppers that were still in the garden. 😱😱😱
When you are thinking of how to preserve your peppers think of how you will ultimately use them. We mostly just use the peppers in cooking so most of the peppers are getting diced then dehydrated and frozen. I am doing both dehydrating and freezing so that I have peppers in two places. In case something happens to the freezer or I just run out of space in there I will have shelf stable dehydrated peppers to pull out.
Fermenting is something new to me but OH MY GOSH I am obsessed!! Fermenting allows you to preserve veggies without having to can them and I personally think that it makes the so much more delicious. I started with fermenting carrots then tried peppers, and now I have a little bit of everything that has come out of the garden fermenting to try.
I ferment the peppers with a little bit of garlic. You don’t have to add garlic but honestly I love pulling out the garlic and eating just that. 🤣 I’m sure it makes me super kissable!
Which methods of preserving do you use for your peppers? Anything new for me to try?
