Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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Jonathon We have used Earthboxes for the last 7/8 years or so. We grow tomatoes, basil, green beans, peppers and cukes. They water from the bottom and here in Colorado we can move them if it hails. They have casters on the bottom. Our soil is very sandy so we only plant our garlic, onions, squash, HR & dill in the actual garden. In the Fall we put the spent soil in the garden and store the Earthboxes in the shed. We have a total of 6 and they produce a lot of produce for the 2 of us. Extra benefit is- NO WEEDING!
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Where do you all find the time to do all this. Everything looks so good.
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Canned 13 quarts of green beans today. It was way to hot and smoky to do anything outside today. We have a forest fire on the other side of the mountains now pushing the smoke over. Need to pick more beans, that will have to wait until tomorrow morning.
johnsbrewhouse You should have made one more jar, I don’t know if I like that number, especially on Friday.
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samspade when you have the product you have to find the time for your own benefit tor the lean times !
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lkrfletcher Bummer,
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My wife picked this colorful bowl of peppers. My hands started to get warm just holding it.
Paul
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My wife picked this colorful bowl of peppers. My hands started to get warm just holding it.
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johnsbrewhouse You should have made one more jar, I don’t know if I like that number, especially on Friday.
calldoctoday Barely had enough to do the 13. Had I waited till today I could have done more. Fourteen would have been better, since the canner holds seven quarts at a time.
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Bob Stehlik good too know. Looks like they produce a ton of green.
Surg
The canned beans look great.
I picked a 5 gallon bucket of green beans this morning and a half bucket yesterday. Seems like a bumper crop this year.
Trying to find a home for some of it.Paul
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Surg
The canned beans look great.
I picked a 5 gallon bucket of green beans this morning and a half bucket yesterday. Seems like a bumper crop this year.
Trying to find a home for some of it.processhead
Wish I could take credit for those beauties but those were posted by johnsbrewhouse“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
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processhead
Wish I could take credit for those beauties but those were posted by johnsbrewhouseThis is just from yesterday. Time for some cooking and canning. Had about the same amount of beans the day before.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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Love the fall, favorite time of year. Canning and hunting, couldn’t get any better.
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Zucchini bread with all the extra zucchini.
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Tex_77 My wife makes zucchini bread with cinnamon, it is great.
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GWG8541 you have good looking crops now he hot work begins just think of the old timers doing the canning on an old wood burning cook stove in the summer !
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GWG8541 you have good looking crops now he hot work begins just think of the old timers doing the canning on an old wood burning cook stove in the summer !
craigrice We tried it a time or two when we were a whole lot younger, just for nostalgia. I used to put a wood burning stove in every home I built for us to keep us connected to the past. I still like splitting wood for exercise, but just not much use for the wood any more it is so hot, other than what I use for smoking & having a little bonfire every Winter or Fall. It was not too bad & nice to talk about it now. Honestly don’t know if I could have kept it up all these years tough, like the old timers, in these modern days & times.
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My wife picked this colorful bowl of peppers. My hands started to get warm just holding it.
processhead Looks like you’ve got some Cayennes (best for flavor) in there & some Chilis. We got those along with Jalopolenos & my favorite, Poblanos this year. Yours look real nice. You can dry those cayennes & the chilis in the sun, the oven, or the smoker & they will keep for ages & you will always have some when you need them. If you are like us, that is a lot.
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This is just from yesterday. Time for some cooking and canning. Had about the same amount of beans the day before.
GWG8541 Nice looking Candylopes, nice looking everything.
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More zucchini bread, same recipe as the first but used bread flower yhe second go round and got much rise out of it.
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GWG8541 Nice looking Candylopes, nice looking everything.
calldoctoday I grew up with my grandparents in my great-grandfathers farm house my grandfather was born in 1896 my grandmother was born in 1893 she taught in one room school houses my grandfather was home birthed in the house and died in the garden at 81 yrs. old I would not trade this experience for anything I feel lucky to have this past even though I was born in 1960
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