
Canning Spaghetti sauce - Ask Extension
Sep 4, 2024 · Hi Sue, Thanks for reaching out. The lemon juice added to most canned tomato recipes is an essential ingredient for safety because tomatoes are often not acidic enough to …
Lemon tree - fruit falling off prematurely - Ask Extension
Apr 17, 2020 · I have a Meyer lemon tree that seems to be healthy, gets plenty of blooms and lemons after blooming. Within a month or two, the tiny lemons fall off. The tree is in a sunroom …
Canning tomato sauce - Ask Extension
Sep 7, 2025 · This recipe does not require adding lemon juice, but it must be processed in a pressure canner to have a safe product. Pints process for 20 minutes, and quarts process for …
Substituting lemon juice for vinegar - Ask Extension
Nov 21, 2017 · Hi, In the USDA recipes for salsa, it is safe to substitute bottled lemon or lime juice for the vinegar in the recipes that call for vinegar. It is substituted on a cup for cup basis (i.e. …
Adding lemon juice to apple butter? - Ask Extension
Oct 22, 2018 · You can add lemon juice to apple sauce or butter with no concerns about safety. It will make it more acidic, which is even safer than just the apples. Be sure to keep the butter …
Perennial Colorado Sunflowers - Ask Extension
Jul 13, 2020 · Lemon queen sunflowers are lovely and will grow well anywhere on the Front Range, but because they are hybrids they will not reseed, nor will the plant come back next …
Meyer Lemon Bush Leaves All Drop Off - Ask Extension
Mar 19, 2023 · Since you mention specifically that the leaves are dropping off of both the Meyer Lemon and the Key Lime trees, I will address that issue primarily: First of all, it is easy to …
Canning Recipe - Ask Extension
Apr 23, 2024 · I was given a large amount of lemons and am trying to find a tested lemonade concentrate (or lemonade or lemon syrup) recipe to use to water bath can them. I have …
White grape jam recipe — low/no sugar pectin (Ball) - Ask Extension
Aug 25, 2025 · You can safely make the low no sugar jam using grapes with the Ball low/no sugar Pectin. The fruits that require lemon juice to set up are listed, other fruits have enough natural …
Canning Salsa - Ask Extension
Oct 12, 2024 · I am not aware of any reliable research-based recipes for canning salsa substituting citric acid for lemon, lime juice or vinegar. There are safe substitutions you can …