u/LaurVB7

Hi everyone! I'm a new canner. I made a great batch of low sugar blackberry jam using the Sure Gel recipe on their website. I use blackberries that I grow, and in their prime they're really sweet. Right now we're in a bad drought and the plants are on their way out for the season, so I've started picking a lot of berries that aren't very ripe, and pretty sour. My question is, I have another box of the low sugar sure gel - can I use that box of pectin and up the sugar amount a little bit that I use to account for the less ripe fruit? Or do I need to buy another box of the regular pectin and use a full sugar recipe? Thank you!

Found the black droppings. Looked right up and BAM, found the culprit. Snipped the branch off into some soapy water, and felt only slightly bad about it!

On the positive side, got a bunch of tomatoes picked!

Usually I've been a close to vine ripe harvester, but this year I'm trying to pick at the breaker phase to see if I can beat some pest/bird pressure. Last picture is one I picked last week that has ripened really nicely.

Prime ark freedoms, I'm blown away!

The best time of year!

Specifically planted a bunch of Plum Regals this year to try them out to have a lot of tomatoes for sauce making, and chose only to plant 2 sun sugars for cherry tomatoes since they're so prolific. And of course guess what I have growing now instead of the Plum Regals? 😂😭 I got, got!

Probably just enough for me for one month, but I'll take it!

Apologies for how corny this sounds, but seriously, any time something actually grows in my garden I'm amazed. Like, I grew that!?The best part is seeing my daughters be equally excited about it!

I watch the Millennial Gardener a lot and he raves about Bobcats as an early determinate, and the guy was right! I have 5 of these plants and they're all loaded up with big fruit like this. I can't wait until they ripen to taste if they're as good as they look.

I knew they were there eating my cauliflower and cabbage but I hadn't been able to find any. I may not normally like them, but you can't beat the help from a wasp in the garden!

Finally got some good rain this week here in NC and the garden has been loving it! Share your garden pics if you want!