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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I am behind this year and sour Kraut is another thing I have not done this year. I may yet do some and some kimchee with daikon radish that is sizing up now in the garden. I guess, I need to make two years worth now at a time because everything takes me twice as long and I am only getting half...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I love using tried and true old time recipes, however, I love to experiment and try new recipes or create my own. I have had failures, but often have had a unique treat and try to pass them on , so others may enjoy the successes. I cook for my taste and if it pleases others , Great! I hate to...
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    Bush beans and pole beans question?

    Scarlet runner beans thrive here some years and others struggle with the heat and draught conditions of late summer. Spring/Early summer they thrive here with adequate soil moisture and set lots of beans and grow huge bloom covered vines by the end of June. Then, often they burn up and dwindle...
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    Bush beans and pole beans question?

    Grow crowder peas instead or some lima beans will continue to make beans in 90 F conditions if decent soil moisture for support of growth.is present. I never water my field peas, corn , heirloom pumpkins, sorghum, etc. Too much for me. Still they make crops(may be reduced) here even in very hot...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    About tomato paste. The traditional way to make tomato paste is to use the over ripening fruits and only good ones, smeared out with the hand or a wooden spatula over a wooden board or table top out in the summer sun and monitor it and swish it around with a smearing action a time or two then...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I personally like the more pronounced flavor of rutabaga often served with potatoes ,carrots and cabbage in my home. Boiling them instead of roasting tones them down a little bit. I prefer them roasted more often than not, but still use them in a boiled beef dinner. Often in boiling the dinner...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I thought I might add, Rutabagas are harder to grow here from spring plantings, except very early plantings, if possible. when the weather is still "iffy" here. Plantings later in the spring suffer from the heat and pest attacks and seldom do well and quality of any harvested roots are often...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    IT does keep them looking better, but they keep acceptably well just placed in my veggie bin in the refrigerator a long time. I have had some keep several months, still eating them occasionally. They have kept ok in the ground here in the mid south, till late winter, before many rotted. I...
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    Question re: breaded foods, Onion rings, etc.

    I tried this today. I first salted them and let them sit to draw out the water, then drained and patted firmly with a paper towel. They were burpless Chinese heirloom Suyo Long variety. I lightly tossed them with flour and then in egg/water wash , then back into a seasoned flour blend. I fried...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    To those who have not tried pesto, Try It! You may like it. Rutabaga is one of my staple fall/winter crops here. They will remain in edible condition most of the winter in the ground or store for a month or two in the refrigerator veggie drawer. I grew up eating Boiled dinners, with a beef pot...
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    DOES PINEAPPLE BELONG ON PIZZA!?

    I am very open to pizza toppings! I have found many combinations or unusual things on pizza to be delicious. I am, however , a bit of a snob when it comes to the crust. Don't get me wrong French bread pizza or something else, may be good, but I love sour dough pizza crust best! It is easy to...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I dehydrate usually, perfectly, in my dehydrator basil and most other common herbs, in abundance, putting away a years supply and giving away quarts of dried basil to family and friends. Basil is so easy and grows tons of leaves, that fresh pesto and dehydrating basil is a regularly repeating...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I am a bit envious of the freeze dryer! I'll get over it. The wife has made me promise to stop spending so much on tools, gadgets and appliances! The quality of freeze dried foods can be impressive! Vacuum packed freeze dried is the way to go for longest term quality storage. Two new heat pack...
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    ROOSTERS - pros vs cons

    While you don't need a rooster if you don't want to breed chickens, I like having them. I agree with many people who have made various comments pro and con having roosters. I DO LIVE IN A MORE RURAL ENVIRONMENT. I do like to hatch out eggs under hens or in an incubator and I just like looking at...
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    Preserving Your Harvest

    I am so disjointed at times! I meant to mention the husk tomatoes, because they are everywhere around here this time of the year! I have two distinctly different wild varieties growing around my garden areas. I have not made a pie from them yet but have made a salsa that was great. A slightly...
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