Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related

[TexLaw]

@Fat-Bob I forgot about the grape leaves for pickles. Some family friends used to make tons and tons of pickles when I was growing up, and they’d always give us some jars. They always threw a couple muscadine grape leaves in each jar (along with a handful of muscadine grapes, which were great!).

[Parksider]

Wow! I have a very heathtly grape vine that is going crazy this year, that’s awesome. I’m a fan of the refrigerator pickles.

[glen]

I have no grape vines.
Do supermarket canned grape leave work?

[[[global:former-user]]]

glen Steal them from the neighbors. I don’t know if canned will work or not. I pick enough for a couple year when I , um, barrow them. Wash them and dry them with a paper towel then vacuum pack them and into the freezer. I’ve used three year old one before and couldn’t tell the difference in the final product.

[glen]

Thanks Bob, my brother in law has some vines and I will get some and vac pack

[rich]

oak leaves will work to

[Tex_77]

Made some salsa verde today! The garden is really coming on!

[YooperDog]

Tex_77 your tomatillas are bigger then my tomatoes. Looks like some good salsa.

[Tex_77]

YooperDog You’d hate to see the size of my tomatoes.

[Joe Hell]

Tex_77 Yum! Yesterday I had Mulitas Chuleta en Chile Verde from ‘The Happy Wanderer’ Mexican restaurant…they were delicious!

I gave up on growing tomatillos years ago. I never had luck with them. My garden is really starting to produce. Squash, zucchini and cucumbers are coming on strong right now and it’s looking to be a bumper crop of tomatoes.

[Tex_77]

Joe Hell I have no idea what you ate…lol. The key to growing them is you have to have at least plants. I have had one good year, one bad, and this year seems to be going ok.

My cucumbers are coming on strong as well, I’ve made a cucumber salsa as well as creamed cucumbers. I’ve also been grilling a lot of zucchini and yellow squash.

[calldoctoday]

Joe Hell I was not too smart this year. I decided to let my garden go to fallow for the first time in ages. I figured it needed a break & we were really busy with our best January ever. Then the Corona Business hit…
Margaret has really been on my case to get a Fall garden ready & thankfully, they usually do us better anyways.

[calldoctoday]

I am not sure why it sensored “Corona Business Hit”?

[calldoctoday]

Corona Business

[calldoctoday]

Hit, it hit. It hit everywhere. Still not sure why the computer system keeps censoring that!

[[[global:former-user]]]

calldoctoday Probably the admins fault. You know, he wears an orange hat.

[calldoctoday]

@Fat-Bob I am laughing, Orange Hat, where are you, come on over here orange hat, orange hat, is that you, is that you orange hat?

[Chef]

calldoctoday Sounds like Dr. Seuss’s Go Dogs Go. Do you like my hat…I do not like your party hat…good bye, good bye…

[calldoctoday]

Sounds to me like the Rattle snake we found in our yard several weeks ago, I do not like it at all, I do not like it one bit!

[Jonathon]

calldoctoday LOL, today has been a looooong day but that was worth the price of admission!