101 Canning Recipes for Fruits and Vegetables from Your Garden

101 Canning Recipes for Fruits and Vegetables from Your Garden. From asparagus to zucchini and from apples to watermelon, there is a canning recipe for nearly every fruit or vegetable you can grow in your backyard garden!

101 Canning Recipes for Fruits and Vegetables from Your Garden

Do you grow fruits and vegetables in your backyard garden? Would you like to preserve that harvest? These canning ideas and recipes are perfect for your harvested fruit and vegetables. There are over 101 canning recipes listed below. From asparagus to zucchini and from apples to watermelon, there is a canning recipe for nearly every fruit or vegetable you can grow in your backyard garden!

Note: these are hot water bath or steam canning recipes.

If you prefer to freeze your vegetables for later use, click here for the Ultimate Guide to Freezing Vegetables!

Vegetable Canning Recipes

Asparagus Canning Recipes

Fresh, green asparagus is a wonderful, versatile that can be steamed, roasted, battered, grilled, sautéed, and canned!

● Easy Pickled Asparagus | Confessions of an Overworked Mom
● Garlicky Pickled Asparagus | Minnesota From Scratch
● Pickled & Peppered Asparagus | A Farmgirl’s Dabbles

Beets Canning Recipes

Beets have been cultivated since the middle ages. They are generally thought of as a hardy, autumn vegetable. Full of folate and manganese, beets are usually pickled when canned.

● Pickled Beets | Reuse Grow Enjoy
● Pickled Beets Recipe | Sidewalk Shoes
● Pickled Beets with Honey | Confessions of an Overworked Mom

Brussels Sprouts Canning Recipes

● Easy Pickled Brussels Sprouts Recipe (Water Bath Canning) | Country Living in a Cariboo Valley
● Hot Spiced Brussels Sprouts | The Stray Needle
● Pickled Brussels Sprouts Recipe | Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks

Cabbage Canning Recipes

● Canning Cabbage (How to Make Sauerkraut) | Little House Living
● Unstuffed Cabbage Roll Soup | Canning Granny

Carrots Canning Recipes

Carrots are easy to grow and do well in raised beds and pots. Canning carrots is a great way to preserve them to flavor soups ad stews all year round.

● Canned Carrots Recipe
● Carrot Cake Jam | Flour on my Face
● Pickled Carrots with Dill and Garlic | Dish ‘n’ the Kitchen

Corn Canning Recipes

● Canned Sweet Corn | Old World Garden Farms
● Canning Corn | Hickery Holler Farm
● Homestyle Corn Relish | Wholefully

Cucumber Canning Recipes

Cucumbers are essential to any canning garden. Pickles are one of the most popular home canned items and perfect for beginners to get started canning. If you have children these home canned goodies will disappear in no time.

● Bread and Butter Pickles | The Hungry Bluebird
● Grilled Pickles (this is a unique canning recipe) | The BBQ Bastard
● Spicy Sweet and Sour Dill Pickles | Happy Foods
● Small Batch Crunchy Canned Dill Pickles | Simple Seasonal
● Russian Dill Pickles | Happy Kitchen. Rocks.
● Sweet Cucumber Relish | Cottage at the Crossroads

Eggplant

Eggplant comes in many different varieties and colors. Some of them even bear fruit. No matter what type of eggplant you choose to grow, there are several things that you should consider before making a decision on what type you should plant. Click here for some tips on how to grow eggplant!

● Canning Ratatouille | Books, Cooks, Looks
● Pickled Eggplant with Basil | Putting up with Erin
● Pickled Fairy Tale Eggplant | Food in Jars

Green Beans Canning Recipes

Beans are a great vegetable to serve with family meals and really easy for beginning canners. Adding fresh herbs, peppers, or onions to your home canned green beans is a great way to make mealtime easy. If you take the time to grow and can your own beans for soups and chili you can do the same to save time later.

● Canned Green Beans Recipe
● Canning Green Beans | Grow a Good Life
● How to Can Green Beans | Creative Homemaking

Garlic Canning Recipes

● Canned Garlic Recipe
● Mom’s version of Adjika | Natasha’s Kitchen

Okra Canning Recipes

● Pickled Okra Recipe | Lana’s Cooking
● Spicy Pickled Okra | Macheesmo

Onion Canning Recipes

Onions are a great staple for canning salsa and adding flavor to any of your favorite home canned veggies. These are great to add to cans of vegetables you plan to add to soups and stews for quick and easy cooking later.

● Dilly Pickled Onion Rings | Buy This Cook That
● How to Can Caramelized Onions | Reformation Acres
● Vidalia Onion and Peach Salsa | Cooking With Mary and Friends

Peas Canning Recipes

Peas are a simple to can vegetables that can be used for many things throughout the year making them a great frugal vegetable to can, add some peppers and onions for a quick flavorful side dish later.

● Canning Green Peas | Canning Granny
● Canning Grean Peas recipe | Hickery Holler Farm
● How to Can Shell Peas | The Homesteading Hippy

Peppers Canning Recipes

Peppers are essential to making homemade salsa and are a great flavor addition to home canned green beans, peas, corn, and carrots.

● Homemade Hot Sauce Recipe
● Garlic Banana Peppers | A Thirfy Mom
● Pickled Jalapeños en Escabèche | Palatable Pastime
● Rick’s Pickled Jalapeño Peppers | My Life Cookbook

Potatoes Canning Recipes

Potatoes are the number one vegetable crop in the world. While they originated in South America, potatoes are now available throughout the year in our grocery stores as they are harvested somewhere every month of the year. If you would like to learn how to plant and harvest potaoes, simply click here.

● Canned Potatoes Recipe
● How to Can Sweet Potatoes | A Modern Homestead

Rhubarb Canning Recipes

Rhubarb is a tart perennial that is actually classified as a vegetable. Most of us think of rhubarb in terms of strawberry and rhubarb desserts, but it can also be canned with delicious results!

● Canning Rhubarb (How to Preserve Rhubarb) | Where Is My Spoon
● Spiced Vanilla Rhubarb Jam | Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks

Squash Canning Recipes

Squash plants encompass many different subspecies of plants. In the squash family, you have cucumbers, zucchini from yellow crookneck to pattypans to green beauties. Then add in your winter squash like acorn, butternut, and gourds. Don’t forget the many varieties of pumpkins that also fall into this category from Jack O’Lanterns to minis and sugars to Giants. All of these plants are perfect to get into your garden around the 4th of July. If you would like to learn more about which vegetables are perfect to plant in late summer, be sure to click here.

● Canned Squash recipe
● Old Fashioned Southern Squash Pickles | Cooking with Mary and Friends

Tomato Canning Recipes

Tomatoes are a staple for any canning garden. The possibilities are nearly endless from tomato soup to sauces, and salsa you can never grow too many tomatoes for canning.

● Russian Grandma’s Pickled Tomatoes | Happy Kitchen. Rocks.
● Herbed Spaghetti Sauce | Lively Table
● Homemade Canned Spaghetti Sauce | Cottage at the Crossroads
● Homemade Canned Tomato Salsa | Noshing with the Nolands
● Homemade Sugar Free Pizza Sauce | Carb Yum
● Homemade Tomato Passata | krumpli
● Peeling Tomatoes Tips | Walking on Sunshine
● Seasoned Tomato Sauce Recipe | Grow a Good Life

Zuchinni Canning Recipes

● Sweet Smokey Zucchini Salsa Recipe | Reluctant Entertainer
● Zuchinni Bread and Butter Pickles | Healthy Canning
● Zucchini Hamburger Relish Recipe | Attainable Sustainable

Fruit Canning Recipes

Learn how to can your fresh fruits for later consumption with these terrific step-by-step instructional tutorials!

Apple Canning Recipes

Apples are cultivated worldwide as a fruit tree. While growing fruit trees isn’t for everyone, be sure to click here for tips on growing fruit trees. You do not need an orchard of apple trees for good production. My great-grandmother only had 3 apple trees and she canned enough for a family of six plus leftovers! We have several on Hubby’s hunting land, and they produce well.

● Apple Fig Chutney | Farm Fresh Feasts
● Canned Cinnamon Apples Recipe
● Easy Apple Butter Recipe For Canning | Hillsborough Homesteading
● Homemade Apple Sauce | Attainable Sustainable

Apricot Canning Recipes

● Apricot Pineapple Jam | A Thirfty Mom
● Apricot Sauce | Broken Teepee
● No Pectin Apricot Jam | Curious Cuisiniere

Blackberry Canning Recipes

Blackberries are great to grow (especially thornless blackberry bushes!) and make wonderful jam and pie filling option for canning. Click here to learn how to grow blackberries!

● Best Blackberry Syrup Recipe (with canning tutorial) | Six Figured Under
● Chocolate Blackberry Preserves | The Redhead Baker
● How to Can Blackberry Jam | Joyfully Thriving

Blueberry Canning Recipes

Blueberries are great for growing as ornamental shrubs that just so happen to give you a great jam and pie filling option for canning. IF you are looking to replace common shrubs in your landscaping with something edible blueberries are a great option.

● Blueberry Conserve | Stocking The Larder
● Blueberry Pie Filling
● Strawberry Blueberry Jam | Flour on My Face

Cherry Canning Recipes

A cherry is a stone fruit. Fresh picked cherries are truly delicious (my grandparents had a cherry tree in their backyard), and while we normally think to eat them fresh, jams, jellies, and moonshine cherries are all well known canned cherry recipes.

● Brandied Cherry Berry Preserves | Homespun Seasonal Living
● Cherry Lemon Jam | Food Lust People Love
● Moonshine Cherries Recipe

Grape Canning Recipes

Grapes produce some wonderfully delicious jellies and jams. A home canning staple!

● Canned Grape Pie Filling | Schneider Peeps
● Honey Sweetened Concord Grape Jelly Recipe | Grow a Good Life

Lemon and Lime Canning Recipes

● Lemon Syrup Recipe Canning Lemons | A Farmgirl in the Making
● Homemade Lime or Lemon Curd (and safe home canning of lemon curd) | The 350 Degree Oven
● Lemon Lime Marmalade | Food in Jars

Nectarine Canning Recipes

● How to Can Nectarines | Homespun Seasonal Living
● Nectarine Kumquat Habanero Chutney | Food Lust People Love
● Nectarine Maple Vanilla Butter | Homespun Seasonal Living

Orange Canning Recipes

● Canning Oranges | Little House Living
● Homemade Sweet Orange Marmalade(Not the bitter type!) | The 350 Degree Oven
● How to Can Orange Juice | New Life on a Homestead

Peach Canning Recipes

● Peach Green Tomato Chow Chow | Buy This Cook That
● Peach Pepper Jelly Recipe | How to Have It All
● Peach Pie Filling | Creative Homemaking
● Peach Salas with Golden Plums and Roasted Hatch Chiles | Farm Fresh Feasts

Pear Canning Recipes

● Canned Pears Recipe | Mostly Food Stuffs
● Cinnamon Pear Jam Recipe | On the Outskirts of Town
● Salted Carmel Pear Butter | Knit & Nosh

Plum Canning Recipes

● How to Can Red Plum Jam | A Modern Homestead
● Plum Jam Recipe (No Peel, No Pectin!) | Natasha’s Kitchen
● Canned Spiced Port Plums Recipe

Raspberry Canning Recipes

Raspberries are great for growing around fence lines and make for plenty of fresh fruit ripe for jams, jellies, and pie fillings.

● How to Can Raspberry Jelly | New Life on a Homestead
● Pressue Cooker Raaspberry Curd | Pressure Cooking Today

Strawberry Canning Recipes

Strawberries make great jam or jelly. Strawberries can be grown in pots or used as a groundcover in well-mulched garden beds coming back nd spreading year after year. Click here to learn how to grow your very pwn strawberry patch!

● Homemade Strawberry Jam with Brown Sugar without pectin | Happy Foods
● Low Sugar Strawberry Jam | Lively Table
● Strawberry Lemon Jam | Simple Seasonal

Tangerine Canning Recipes

● Tangerine Syrup Recipe | The Hip Girl’s Guide to Homemaking
● Tangerine Marmalade | The Joy of an Empty Pot

Watermelon Canning Recipes

● Watermelon Butter | Palatable Pastime
● Watermelon Jelly Recipe | Daily Dish Recipes
● Sweet Watermelon Rind Pickles | Cinnamon Spice and Everything Nice

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