Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related
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We’ve gone nuts literally! With fall comes the walnut harvest and beating the squirrels out of them (they also destroy the tree). Of course my two dogs and pellet pistol make short work of that problem here lately. We have harvest about one third of what’s left, it will take a few more weeks for the rest to drop or a good wind storm. Lots of work to pick them up, hull the ones that are still intact, clean them then put them out to dry a bit. That’s almost 15 gallons drying on the deck. The worst part is shelling them. As you can see from the pictures, there are quite a few already, more sitting on the ground waiting to be cleaned and still more on the tree.
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We’ve gone nuts literally! With fall comes the walnut harvest and beating the squirrels out of them (they also destroy the tree). Of course my two dogs and pellet pistol make short work of that problem here lately. We have harvest about one third of what’s left, it will take a few more weeks for the rest to drop or a good wind storm. Lots of work to pick them up, hull the ones that are still intact, clean them then put them out to dry a bit. That’s almost 15 gallons drying on the deck. The worst part is shelling them. As you can see from the pictures, there are quite a few already, more sitting on the ground waiting to be cleaned and still more on the tree.
johnsbrewhouse do you cook the squirrels?
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We’ve gone nuts literally! With fall comes the walnut harvest and beating the squirrels out of them (they also destroy the tree). Of course my two dogs and pellet pistol make short work of that problem here lately. We have harvest about one third of what’s left, it will take a few more weeks for the rest to drop or a good wind storm. Lots of work to pick them up, hull the ones that are still intact, clean them then put them out to dry a bit. That’s almost 15 gallons drying on the deck. The worst part is shelling them. As you can see from the pictures, there are quite a few already, more sitting on the ground waiting to be cleaned and still more on the tree.
johnsbrewhouse & am still behind on cracking last years Pecans! I used to get them all done during the winter.
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sounds like a beer drinking project
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johnsbrewhouse do you cook the squirrels?
Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
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Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
johnsbrewhouse said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:
Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
Must be reds, the grey and fox squirrels around here will make a tasty meal. Yeah they aren’t the meatiest of the bunch, a couple per person. The reds aren’t worth it due to size or flavor.
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johnsbrewhouse said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:
Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
Must be reds, the grey and fox squirrels around here will make a tasty meal. Yeah they aren’t the meatiest of the bunch, a couple per person. The reds aren’t worth it due to size or flavor.
YooperDog I love squirrel and so do the grandsons. it is on the menu for this week!
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johnsbrewhouse said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:
Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
Must be reds, the grey and fox squirrels around here will make a tasty meal. Yeah they aren’t the meatiest of the bunch, a couple per person. The reds aren’t worth it due to size or flavor.
YooperDog Never had squirrel, just reminds me of duck commander, the mom liked squirrel brains.
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YooperDog Never had squirrel, just reminds me of duck commander, the mom liked squirrel brains.
bocephus Never had the brains but had an aunt that loved them
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johnsbrewhouse said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:
Tex_77 They become fertilizer, they are not worth the effort to clean and cook, not enough meat on them.
Must be reds, the grey and fox squirrels around here will make a tasty meal. Yeah they aren’t the meatiest of the bunch, a couple per person. The reds aren’t worth it due to size or flavor.
YooperDog grey squirrels, they were pushed into our area when they clear cut a training area on the military base just down the road. They told everyone they were restoring the oak prairies when they did it. They drove all the animals off their natural habitat so now the scrounge for food and aren’t that fat.
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Thanks everyone.I love my garden it’s my place to get away from everything that’s going on.
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YooperDog I love squirrel and so do the grandsons. it is on the menu for this week!
RON PARRISH love squirrel gravy.
“You never really die until you end up on the wall at a Cracker Barrel”
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RON PARRISH love squirrel gravy.
GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.
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GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.
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Chef https://youtu.be/zjjpW-To3Ms Check this out
RON PARRISH Okay. That’s easy enough. Dr_Pain , I’m guessing you would approve!
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Squirrels? I refer to them as tree rats. Don’t care for them. Have heard the tails are popular to those who are into fly tying.
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GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.
Chef said in Gardening, canning, pickling and everything related:
GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.
WHAT!!!
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GWG8541 Okay, I’ll confess, this c oon a s s has never had squirrel. How about posting a recipe. Along with that, how to process a squirrel. I sit on my patio with my pellet riffle and get about 3 to 10 a week. Been just throwing them into the garbage can.
Chef They go into the compost bin at my house, where they go after that I have no control. It either fertilizer in the spring or the coyotes, red tail hawk or owls pick them up. All I know they don’t steal nuts and the dogs don’t have to stand watch under the tree all the time. I have the squirrels trained now as soon as I come out with the pellet pistol, they are looking for a quick exit ahead of the dogs or the pellet.
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GWG8541 Even I have had squirell! I am betting they are the same as rabbit, you couldn’t survive on them from the lack of fat, aside form a neighborhood squirell.
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GWG8541 Even I have had squirell! I am betting they are the same as rabbit, you couldn’t survive on them from the lack of fat, aside form a neighborhood squirell.
Jonathon mine are far from looking like that. They are skinny and get plenty of exercise from the dogs chasing them down the fence line and out of the yard. One of these days my females will get one, she catches rabbits
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