Ooo!! Ooo!! Just a bit more sunshine please

I then got at least one edible Strawberry for tea

We're swamped with strawberries this year. I think we have enough jam to last for two years, and our neighbors are probably also getting sick of them!

Originally Posted by jcat

We're swamped with strawberries this year. I think we have enough jam to last for two years, and our neighbors are probably also getting sick of them!

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Send me some jam!!

*drools* delicious! I used to pick strawberries at my grandparents house when I was little

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

Send me some jam!!

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I might have to, Nat! I've got your address, but would Canadian customs allow it? We've already got around 30 jars, and are still picking strawberries (18 kilos on Sunday, and 20 yesterday; the freezer is full of strawberries). I'm allergic to them, so there's no way DH's going to get through them all.

Actually, I've told him (since he made the jam) that whatever is in the brand new jars he had to buy should go to the cat home, for their annual raffle. Now he's thinking about making gooseberry jam, too, as we're going to have too many of them.

It'll probably be a really good year for grapes, too.

Me, too!!! Me, tooooooo!!!! re: strawberry jam. Would US customs have an issue? I can check!!!!

Strawberry season is just starting here in Michigan. I'm too lazy to make jam.

Fresh strawberries....

Mmmm yummy! It must be fun to grow your own too.

ooooo!! yum!!! I wish we had strawberries, but the climate here gets too low in winter, and they all die off

Can you pretty please send me some jars??!! I would love to eat it! I just hop[e Canadian customs wont have a problem with it

Feel free to pm me for my box number to mail it to!

I'm sooooooooooo jealous. No strawberries grown in Las Vegas. If they could grow, they would immediately turn to jam from the heat

Originally Posted by jcat

I might have to, Nat! I've got your address, but would Canadian customs allow it? We've already got around 30 jars, and are still picking strawberries (18 kilos on Sunday, and 20 yesterday; the freezer is full of strawberries). I'm allergic to them, so there's no way DH's going to get through them all.

Actually, I've told him (since he made the jam) that whatever is in the brand new jars he had to buy should go to the cat home, for their annual raffle. Now he's thinking about making gooseberry jam, too, as we're going to have too many of them.

It'll probably be a really good year for grapes, too.

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Customs Schmustoms..just don't tell them you are sending jam...say its something else

I would LOVE some jam

Strawberry jam is my favourite! I eat it every morning with my toast..

I wish I had some strawberry jam your so lucky to have so many!! strawberries are the best

Whooops!!! Too late

Originally Posted by u8myufo

Whooops!!! Too late

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Aha, so they are ripening!

We have a bumper crop this year, because May was much warmer and sunnier than usual. Strawberry jam is dead easy to make (hubby does it, because I can't eat it; I caved in and ate a bowl of strawberries and vanilla ice cream, and ended up on cortisone for a week). He just cuts the green part off, slices the big strawberries in half, and layers them with "jam sugar" or "gelling sugar", 1:1, in a big pot, and lets the pot sit for 3 or 4 hours. Then he brings the mix to a boil, lets it simmer for 4 minutes, and voila. He tried using less jam sugar this year in the first pot, and ended up with "strawberry soup", now "residing" in our freezer.