Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related

[lkrfletcher]

kyle - Wow nice haul

[RON PARRISH]

cdavis
Got home yesterday and found these brown honey mushrooms on my tree in front yard!Very tasty!

[cdavis]

RON PARRISH I probably have tons of eatable mushrooms around here but just don’t know anything about them. Morrells are the only wild mushrooms we grew up eating. Boy do I need to do some research and learn. By the way nice haul. Congrats

[lkrfletcher]

Pepperoncini

[RON PARRISH]

lkrfletcher I love those.have not had them forever!

[GWG8541]

lkrfletcher look great. I do like those little things. What all is in your brine?

[bocephus]

lkrfletcher Used to buy jars of them all the time, haven’t had them in a long time.

[kyle]

lkrfletcher so are they like a banana pepper? Do you put them in like a dill pickle brine?

[Tex_77]

Canned dill pickles tonight, used my sous vide to maintain a percise temperature for canning.

[YooperDog]

RON PARRISH nice looking 'shrooms. I am drying two grocery bags full of wine cap from my little patch. Growing up 'shrooms were almost like a condiment.

[RON PARRISH]

YooperDog I just ordered spawn for wine caps! cant wait to get them started

[Surg]

Growing some sprouts.

[lkrfletcher]

GWG8541 Vinegar and water

[lkrfletcher]

Tex_77 Very Nice pickles

[Surg]

Tex_77 those look great.

[Mcjagger]

Tex_77 Never thought to use my sous vide for canning…nice trick…what temp and for how long do you do yours ?

[Tex_77]

Mcjagger The recipe I used called for 180 for 30min.

[Warrenlc57]

tarp

I haven’t had a garden in a couple of years, but every year on the full moon in August, my chef son and I pick prickly pears. We make jelly, prickly pear lemonade, prickly pear confit, prickly pear jello, and a few other goodies. We did the confit in a sous vide this year, and it turned out amazing (we added lemons). My little garden had 40 herbs in it as well as many vegetables. I used rabbit manure, but I also used fermented plant juice and I captured indigenous microorganisms. I double dug my beds and used the biodynamic French-intensive method so as soon as a hole in the garden was vacated, it had something else planted there immediately. Can’t wait to own land again.

[calldoctoday]

Rabbit Manure is the best & your garden shows. Unfortunately it is getting hard to come by of late (you do not want to hear the horror stories). I may have to go back to raising them again, just for the manure, if I can get Margaret to buy in on it again.

[Warrenlc57]

Does she not like the meat? I raised rabbits too for a while (but I brought truck loads in from a local rabbitry). Back then, a few years ago, none of my family would eat rabbit until I made “chicken pot pie” with rabbit! Anyway, I’ll bet you could sell them. In Austin, Texas, when you can find them, they are expensive! If I could afford them I would fill my freezer with them.