Canning 101 | Spinach and Other Leafy Greens
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- I canned up a few pints of Malabar Spinach a few weeks back, but didn't film a video on it. Shortly after, we used a jar in it for one of our dinners, and you guys really wanted to know how I canned it. I pulled my final harvest from the garden, and we'll can it up together this time - it's really super simple. Blanch, Jar, Can, Enjoy. Pints go for 70 minutes, and Quarts go for 90. Pressure is based on elevation where you live. Ball Book references in the video is here: amzn.to/3SQpVZK ♥
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Rachel and Todd you inspired us to take the leap into self-sustainability. Started with a small garden. Tried the canning and dehydrating. Expanded our garden. Started composting. Canned some more, established no-waste goals, added some chickens into the mix. Expanded the garden again. Now we have a “canning season kitchen”, a coop full of hens, raise our own meat birds and next year’s goal will be 90%! I need that cow, too!
Your absolute transparency has created this safe place for us to visit knowing we will find inspiration, information, entertainment and our shared passionate pursuit of living better… one day at a time. Thanks for that. You have no idea the incredible impact you have made in our lives. Bless you both ❤
That's so great, what amazing accomplishments!
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Brilliant! Enjoy!
I'm in the south and yes mix greens is way better then just collards by them selves. Thank you for this video
Hi Rachel fellow youtuber gardener trying to teach people how to grow their own food. Love all your videos I don't comment but I have tried alot of your recipes Thank you Sincerly love and hugs from Pennsylvania Melody
I made your canned southern style greens and wow. We love them! I'll be making another batch from greens as right before we put the garden to bed.
Hi Rachel thanks so much on the Michigan spinach lesson. I’ve had a garden for about 4 yrs and I’m still learning so much. After Covid I’ve much more serious about it. If there are anymore weather planting tips about Michigan please pass them on. I went to your farmers market. WOW WAS IT WORTH THE TRIP!!!
I will be returning for sure. We are north of Ann Arbor so it was only an hour. My friends and I can’t thank you enough ❤
I am in Ohio and have struggled with spinach too. Next season I am going to try to grow the Malabar. Oh and Just tried your roasted tomato soup and OMG! It is so good! You were are RIGHT it is better than Campbell's! Thank you for sharing!
After your last video, I ordered some seed since you addressed the texture so well. Thanks for all this. I struggle with spinach too.
We love our Malabar. I struggle every year with my spinach. The same problems that plague you reduces my production to a meal or two. I have found that my Malabar grows best in partial shade here in mid-MO.
Idea for you. Get a wooden dowel a bit smaller than the funnel mouth. Cut it the height of several inches over a quart jar.
Or the handle of a wooden spoon.
You're so right about our Spring season! It goes from freezing to a month of rain and mud, then hot and humid. 🤣
Thanks for the lesson. I have learned so much from watching you and Todd. Great videos. You two are awesome together. Keep up the good work.
I have been looking for videos like this
Thanks for the video. I’ve been growing Malabar spinach for years up a cattle panel. We eat a lot of it in the summer and add it to salads and in the late summer/fall I freeze a ton of it and add it to soups in the winter. It’s such an easy to grow vegetable, and you are so right about spring going right into summer in the blink of an eye. I’m in southern Ontario and have always struggled to grow regular spinach. Always love your videos 💚
Hey! I was just wondering this! I always blanch and freeze in little clumps.
I'm in Wisconsin, the last few years I've had success with Tatsoi, an Asian spinach. And it's cute ❤
Thanks for the video!
Hi Rachel. The spinach is a beautiful green 💚 color. I have to do these things to save me. You are an inspiration to many you tubers and me. Love your video and enjoy them very much. God Bless you Rachel for all you do. Stay healthy my friend. Mari'a. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Canned leafy greens! Great idea and very inspirational for me to try next year! Thank you😊
Love your channel! When canning and trying to pack jars, I often use the 'pestle' from my mortar and pestle. You then control how tight or loose food is packed. It fits beautifully through the opening of the funnel. It should work on that spinach!
Good idea
Loved it ! Blessings !!!
Good job, Rachel!❤
Love, love, love fresh spinach. Cant wait to have a large harvest to can. Blessings
Hello Rachel and Todd and family hope you are are fine. Love this video. Have a good day God Bless you and Todd and family from a viewer in Toronto Ontario Canada
I’m glad you got more jars than you hoped for!
I finally broke down and bought a pressure canner! Haven't used it yet, but Once I figure it out I think I will really be happy I got it! I have water bathed for years, but you always want something you can't do because you don't have the right canner. Wish me luck ;-) I love spinach.
I see that beautiful color in that water and wonder if wool could be dyed with it.
I love store canned spinach. Never thought about canning my own!
Thanks for this information, I can really use it.
I recently found your channel and love it. Really useful information. I am new to preserving and you have educated me!
Boy that spinach had a lot of bubbles! I love spinach 😋. Thanks for showing us how to can it.
It looks yummy
So sweetie thanks for sharing your knowledge ❤
I love your canning videos! I’m a somewhat novice canner and love getting info and ideas from you.
Awesome. Thank you.
Good afternoon Rachel. That all looks fresh and delicious. There's nothing like homegrown canned spinach, with just the right amount of vinegar and pepper. Thanks again for sharing another excellent video. Hope you're having a wonderful Sunday
It's great that way! Mom would serve her canned spinach and put a little cut glass decanter filled with vinegar on the table. I thought it was so fancy I didn't care that spinach wasn't my favorite.
Love it that way now though!
Wonderful!! Always been a little iffy about canning greens..we always froze them. Gonna give it a try.😊
So I have done great on my Malabar spinach..today I was talking to my mail lady and I told them I would bring them some seeds and some spinach leaves ..🌱
My Granny said that greens and bean should always be brought to a boil before eating... not just heated.
Tomatoes and collards... yummy.
Hey Rachel that looks so good. We can collard greens late December when the fall garden is at it's peek. Still in the low 90's here and we are going to start planting the fall garden in a week. God bless.
I’m wanting to can turnip greens for winter, glad you said ham hock because that’s how we eat it.
Great Video Thank You!
Great video,
Nice job.
Thank you for the reminder.....I couldn't remember the name of this! We have a mega hot Summer.
I wish I would have realized sooner that I could successfully preserve my malabar😩I grow green stem and red stem! I also grew Egyptian spinach and it grew fantastic all summer in this GA heat!🥵. Watching for those seed pods to dry up now but I will most definitely be canning both next year!!!
Looks delicious! The mixed greens sound fantastic too!
I did make the mistake of adding malabar to a smoothie😩slime foam way to mucilaginous for high speed blender!
My trick to pack jars was free. My husband won a bar supply basket (had a drink strainer, muddler, drain mat,etc) but we don’t drink. The muddler has a rubber flat bottom. Perfect to pack jars.
That muddler came in really handy tonight, pressure canned a combo of honey butternut & regular butternut squash for holiday squash pies. First time I pressure canned it & didn’t freeze it. Yummy!
Thank you. I was just thinking of getting greens planted in my greenhouse. (I'm in NH)
Yay! Thanks for doing a video! I have a ball canning book, but didn't put two and two together that "leafy greens" would be spinach. *facepalm*
I love malabar spinach! I didn’t plant near enough. Next year. I’m not fo d of canned greens but love them raw.
nothing is better than collards!
I'm definitely trying Malabar Spinach next spring. I have the same issue. Winter straight into Summer, or just heat waves that make everything bolt.
Thanks Rachel I love Spinach do I grow it no., but thanks for sharing 10-3-2022👍🏽👍🏽
Thank you for this video Rachael. I'm trying to find Malabar Spinach seeds so I can grow it here in South Mississippi. Now I'll know how to preserve it.
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Could you top off the jars with the nutrient rich hot blanch water?
Got seed to try next year.
Another great video Rachel. You had a lot of sweet potato greens you could of done the same to. 😉
nice
Made your roasted tomato soup so so good did 9 pints but only 3 sealed.
Hi Rachel 👋
Could you use the water you blanched the spinach in as it would have nutrients in it?
So not spinach but it is green ... we made cowboy candy a month ago even tho we have never eaten jalapenos! You made it sound so good! We LOVED it. Only made 4 half pints so Saturday we went to a local farm and picked 18 lbs of jalapenos yup 18! We ended up with 28 half pints and 8 quarter pints!!! Thank you for all the recipes you share!!!! We don't have a garden but I'm in the process of begging my husband to build me raised beds :) we live on a hill of shale unfortunately.
Where do you get all those beautiful eye glasses? Just love the looks ❤️
Rachel when you cook collards and they have like a bitter taste to them add a little amount of sugar and it will take that taste away.
I do
I tried growing Malabar spinach last year, it did absolutely nothing all summer until the last couple weeks.. then it was killed by the frost. Wondering if my climate isn't right for it, zone 3b. Or if I just didn't have it in a sunny enough spot for the season. Will try my luck again next year. 🌱
Wish I did this with all of the spinach I grew this year instead of giving loads of it way... ha ha.
I don't have a pressure canner though anyway.
I've done English spinach. Short plant no vines. Don't remember.
I was just watching your Taco Soup recipe. My question is I have canned my own black beans, could I use them. Also do you have a video of you Mexican sauce? Thanks
I wonder if it's possible to ferment spinach before canning it? Like fermented spinach and garlic or basil, or by itself? Would it retain its crispiness that way?
I got some white moth that eats my greens. Almost $2 a can for canned at the store. Lot of work.
Hello there Rachel and Todd!! Does Malabar Spinach have the same flavor as regular spinach. So do you can sweet potato greens??
Rachel, do you include the stems or strip them and use leaves only?
Oh this is awesome! Thank you so much! A visual of these things in action helps. I just kept thinking, they are thick, and er, juicy? How exactly does that work? I'd want a video if someone was canning purslane. Although I think this video even makes that idea comprehendible. Just hard to wrap my brain.
Things I wanted to know also that were cleared up: do you tip those red stems off? (nope!) Chopping, and any resulting slim? (nope, therefore nope!) Still squeaky even after blanching? (yes!) All those tiny leaves go in too? (yep!) How much does a big bowl make compared to the thin greens? (answered!) Does the red turn everything into strange jarred colors after canning? (no!)
I'm totally going to strip all my red malabars bare in mid-Nov now thanks to this video. :) Have the 'other' kind of spinach sprouting in my bathroom right now! Still too hot to get them outside, but soon! Who knows, may never bother with them again past this winter, after canning the malabar. Looks so much better than regular canned spinach.
Has anyone ever canned kale? We have a bumper crop this year!
Since you have a freeze dryer it would be better.
I've been canning over 50 yrs and always boil my lids. My rims go into the dishwasher
Wondering how pumpkin leaves would work for this?
Has anyone canned Swiss chard? If so how did it go?
Hi Rachel! Does malibar come up again in the spring here in Michigan, or do you plant again?
No it's a tropical plant
Can this be used to make spinach smoothies? Has anyone tried it?
How many plants of the Malibar spinach did you plant? I'm the only one that will be eating it.
have u tried to freeze the malabar spinach
Rachel - I’ve been watching your channel for awhile & love your ideas & the peacefulness I feel after viewing. I’m a 69 year old woman who watched her Mother can tomatoes, pickles, chili sauce, etc., and never once saw her use a canner. She would cook her ingredients and put in hot jars with boiled lids and sit on the counter & wait to hear the “ping” which told u it had sealed. She would also push down on the lids to tell if they for sure had sealed. I’ve done this throughout my lifetime with no ill effects. I used my Mother’s method last year in canning peaches, but now am worried I’ve done something Wrong all these years! I guess I’m mostly asking this because now that the fear of God has taken over, is it too late to put canned peaches in a canner after they have sat for a year? Please just give me your thoughts on this. Thank you!
Putting year old canned peaches in the canner now wouldn't do anything useful, unfortunately. However, if you can them, going forward, with a canner from now on there shouldn't be a reason to worry anymore. :)
If you see bubbles after canning is that bad, the jar sealed and I heard it pop
… hi Rachel … I’m wondering why you didn’t use the red juice water to add to the jars? … also wondering if ham or bacon can be added to the jars for canning ? Thanks!
… just saw your reply to someone else asking about the juices …
… 🙄 … never mind! … I see you have a whole video on doing greens with ham hock … 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I didn’t think you could can cabbage unless it was picked?
if i liked spinach, i would grow that kind
Is there a reason you can't fill the jars after packing, with some of the water you blanched it in? I would think that would use some of the nutrient rich water they were blanched in, instead of watering it down?? I love this, and can't grow regular spinach here in NW WI either, I plan to do a trellis of Malabar Spinach next year.
The instructions say specifically to discard the water, but not why.
I’ve been growing red malabar spinach up here in Midland for a number of years, but it often gets spots on it. Not sure what the cause is. Grew it indoors over winter last year and had green leaves without the spots, but it was a struggle keeping the plants alive inside. I hardly use much of my crop because the spotty leaves aren’t appetizing! Your leaves look so nice-any ideas why mine get spotted? Probably some sort of pest since I don’t use pesticides? I just learned to pressure can last month, and I’d love to try saving some of my malabar crop! Thank you for the idea and demonstration!
It's supposed to be a soil borne bacterial or viral disease. We get this if the temps drop and or it starts raining. Basically the humidity goes bonkers, and everything gets icky.
Thanks! It’s probably the cold weather. I appreciate your help.
is that funnel lead like the old canning lids?
It’s aluminum.
Might be easier to fill your jars with the handle end of a wooden spoon
How many malamar plants did you end up growing this year?
I don't remember maybe 40, 5 per square foot
This dont pertain to spinach but my question is can I go to the grocery store and buy jalapeños and pickle them? Can't find any fresh ones
Hi Rachel, I have been watching your videos for a few months now and I have learned a lot. I do have a question.
I have recently been given a large amount of navy beans. I want to make baked beans and the recipe from my mother contains bacon. Can baked beans be hot water bath? I don't pressure can.
No only pressure canning
Thank you for answering so quickly
I cann beans and meat (bacon) with no problem. 100 degrees celcius for 120 minutes
I only cann with waterbath ( weck method) and I cann everything even meat. Greetings from the Netherlands
So, after boiling the spinach, you dont have to put in ice water? It doesnt overcook this way?
No need for direct canning going to continue to cook it anyway for 70 mins
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Does the Malabar spinach have to grow on a trellis?
Where do you buy the seeds?
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we didn't trellis ours, just let it do its thing
Rachel where did you get your big bowl?
The big metal one, Todd's mom gave it to me as a gift.
@@1870s I wish I could find we're to buy them
Can I put raw spinach in the jars? Skipping a step?
I tried with my first round ends up with only half a can of spinach because it's wilts down by half
Thank you for your reply! Since I’m the only one who likes spinach. Might work for me! Going to try it!
No washing the canning lids?? 🧼
Nope
Canned spinach from the store is disgusting.