Here I am finally telling you about my green beans!
A few weeks ago, my parents came to visit me from Alabama for my Birthday. One of my gifts was a pressure canner which was incredibly exciting. I have a boiling water canner, but I was feeling limited in my options (and I never want to [...]
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Canning Green Beans
Posted in Cannin', Veggies, Victories! on October 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Rainy
Posted in 'Round here, Cannin', Gardening, The Farm on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We had a very rainy weekend (plus Thursday and Friday). From the very non-scientific measure on my back porch, which is actually a rubbermaid container that holds any veggie scraps we take to the farm, we got about 5+ inches this weekend. It never rained terribly hard, but it was constant.
Something about fall rain makes [...]
Piles
Posted in Cannin', Gardening, Veggies on September 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Have you all been waiting with baited breath to see what 40 pounds of tomatoes looks like? (Umm…yeah, it was 40 not 50 THANK GOD.) Please forgive me for not immediately posting a picture, because you can sure bet that I took one the second that I hobbled into the house under the [...]
Over my head
Posted in Cannin', Veggies on September 17, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I did something potentially stupid, I think. Well, maybe not stupid but certainly overly ambitious.
I’ve been on this quest for tomatoes for a couple of months now. I wanted tomatoes- a lot- to can. I checked with the lady that I got my seedlings from. I checked with the people who run my CSA. I [...]
Pickles and a Tomato
Posted in Cannin', Veggies on September 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last night Pete and I pickled 4 Quarts of Dill Pickles.
We pickled three of them as spears and one as rounds. Sadly, we were running very, very low on dill (next year: Grow dill! Do you have any idea how expensive that stuff is in the grocery store? And that here [...]
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