Wow, your pantry is well stocked! Also incredibly neat and organized. You have been very busy. Did you grow everything you preserved? Are the hanging vegetables beans? How do you use them? What kind of squash are the ones that are somewhat pumpkin shaped. They look different than any I've grown in the north.

Yes everything home grown. Those are pole beans strung up to dry. They're called "leather britches" . When cooking them , soak in water for a while , just like you would dried shell beans, Then start cooking them in a pot on the stove and let simmer for a few hours. It has a beany aroma (smell) to them . They taste like they smell but they are a bit stringy. Can throw in some bacon , ham hock or whatever. Yum.

Those are "Seminole pumpkins": https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/plants/edibles/vegetables/seminole-pumpkin.html

They taste similar to a butternut squash. And they keep a long time . Those in the picture were grown last year.

HU from oklahoma

Wow , Annie you got me beat with a stick. Looks like twice as many as mine. Were those canned just this year? I didn't count mine exactly but I'm guessing I got close to 300 some jars.

I've always appreciated a full well rounded colorful pantry at the end of the growing season going into winter. Gives me some sense of comfort.

Wish I had a root cellar.

HU from oklahoma

You both amaze me. Beautiful stored bounty from your garden.

Annie, is your cold storage in a basement with stone walls? I remember walls like that in my grandparents basement. My parents and aunts and uncles all worked chipping off the portruding ones in one section of the basement to make it smooth and then put mortar on it to make it look modern. Now I would welcome seeing the natural walls.

HU, those Seminole squash sound like good ones to grow in a hot location. They also look cool :) It's great that they can be stored so long.

My "cold storage" is in the garage. If we get temps near 0 the garage will cool below 32 and I have to be sure to bring things in before then. I only have a dozen squash, two boxes of apples, and lots of onions so it will likely be eaten or cooked for the freezer before we see any really cold weather. Often they are stored in the bed of the pick up truck which we don't use often. We have to remember to take out the produce before using the truck :) No neat and orderly shelves here to show you!

HU, some of that is last year's, a few jars of sauerkraut, green beans, tomatoes. Most is this year's, I managed a few over 800 jars this year, a few years ago I went over 1,000. I always plant too much, then justify my canning by saying that after all that work, it's not going to waste, LOL. I give a lot to the local food pantries, but with COVID they are a little more careful about what they take and how they take it this year.

Naturegirl, that's my back room, I don't have a basement. It's a built on room where the geothermal system resides, and we added some shelves. The prior owner built it on as a "garage" for his riding lawnmower, LOL. It doesn't ever get below freezing, but it stays in the low 40s because it has a regular garage door to the outside, one of those roll up type doors. Makes a great cold storage, though, and a place for my far too large collection of cake pans!

Annie

So impressive! I would really love to have a pantry like that.

All of the stores near me were sold out of canning jars, so I didn't put up much this year. I have pie filling, jams, chutneys and pickles. We grow year round, so everything else we eat with the seasons. @annie1992 How are your bok choy doing? My seedlings are just about ready to be transplanted.

Wow!

Lynda, the bok choy is doing really well, I've been eating it as I thin it out. It's the purple stuff, first time I've grown it.

I'll try to remember to take the camera out and get a picture tomorrow...

Edited to add this picture. Notice the trowel handle next to the plants, I stuck that trowel in there for scale:

HU, your turnips are bigger than mine. I have a row in the hoop house but they are about the size of ping pong balls right now. I'm hoping to have them for Thanksgiving dinner. It's going to be in the 70s for the next couple of days, then back into the 40s, so I've been opening the tops on the hoophouses to allow my plants to suck up as much sunshine as possible without cooking under that plastic.

Annie

HU from OK, that's a beautiful sight! Yours too, Annie. That would make me happy just to stand there and look at it all knowing you grew it. .......Couldn't help but think that you both must not be worried about earthquakes where you are.

Earthquakes don't happen very often here in OKla . We've had a few brief ones due to the oil drilling ( fracking) in the last few years. But you're right , a big quake could ruin us.

HU from oklahoma

I'm in Michigan, I've never experienced an earthquake, although as HU from Oklahoma mentions there is the problem caused by fracking. That's caused some quakes in Ohio, right next door, but not here so far.

We've had a few minor earthquakes in Michigan the past decade or so but nothing close enough to me that I even felt a tremor. A tornado is a far bigger danger and far more likely than a quake.

Annie

I'm near Annie, and have never experienced an earthquake here. No tornadoes either, but I've seen nearby places where their was some minor damage a few times through the years. Nothing major, fortunately.

My daughter lives in a part of California where people freak out over the rare thunderstorm. They expect and are unconcerned over minor earthquakes that happen every year. They would be stressed a lot here as thunderstorms are a regular summer occurrence. When she visited with friends they wanted to see our basement. They figured we spent a lot of time hiding from tornadoes down there. I'm not sure they believed us when we told them we seldom have reason to take shelter. I don't think many of the homes in the area they are from in California even have basements.

HU from MO! What a nice pantry! If I had eaten it with a trowel, I wouldn’t have eaten it all winter