My cousin will plant whatever veggies we want to can as long as I can it and split it with him
He grow's peppers, cukes, pumpkins,onions,tomato's and squash's. Last year he brought me up over 100 pumpkins at about 10 lbs each to make pie filling
I grow rasberries, apples,grapes, blueberries and rhubarb. The rest I usually get at the u-pick or at the farmers market at the end of the street.
We make: green tomoto chow, mustard pickles,salsa's, dill pickles, corn relish, millionaires relish, apple sauce, strawberry/ rasberry/blueberry/rhubarb/blackberry jams, apple jelly, grape jelly,mincemeat, pumpkin pie filling,ice pickles, bread and butter pickles, bean relish,sour mixed pickles,rose hip jelly,apple butter, ruby red jam ( beets and carrots ummm) pickled beets, pickled eggs,lazy pickles Also we make apple cider, frost wine, fruit wine, rhubarb wine and various fruit pie fillings that we just get ready then freeze in ziploc bags enough for 1 pie per bag.
Dh likes doing this with me so does fil, they never did this stuff before and get a real kick out of. We have a screen tent in the back and get all the veggies ready outside in the tent on the picnic table, less clean up
. during the day then cook and can in the evening/ next morning.