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Thank you. :). I have raised beds with a mix of half soil, half compost from a local nursery. I do no till gardening & add compost in the fall & straw as a mulch. I have never had a quince!

Where do you store yours? Mine doesn't last too long, I have no good place to store it (no basement). Last year when I saw them starting to sprout I peeled them all & froze them. It worked really well! I hate to waste anything, lol. I stopped growing hardneck so I don't get scapes anymore...

That stinks, but I know that feeling well! I make DH hot sauce every year out of the hottest peppers I can get my hands on. Most people can't even taste a dab of it, including me. When he finishes a jar & puts it in the sink & the hot water hits the remnants I have a coughing fit!

Well that's a bummer!

I need to decide real quick if I'm doing garlic this year or not, getting chilly out there. I did save some from the harvest, but not sure if the back can handle it or not. I'd have to ask DH to put them in the ground. I've never not grown garlic.

Canned potatoes are one of the few (store bought) canned things I will eat! They're good to bring camping, I think that's probably the only reason I've ever had them. Buy the sliced ones & throw them in a foil pack with oil & onions & throw em on the fire. :)

Ohhh yay, I love contests!

https://s3.wp.wsu.edu/uploads/sites/2079/2016/05/Victorian-Barbeque-Sauce.pdf I do believe @Acre4Me made some - not sure if it's been eaten yet though! & I will leave out the raisins & make it spicy with cayenne or something.

I've been thinking about making some strawberry rhubarb jam. Both are in the freezer from this years harvest but I have none left from last year so I'm jonesing for some jam! I think the back might be able to handle canning a small batch or 2. I really want to do the rhubarb bbq sauce too.

I'm quite happy with it. But I've never had a pressure canner before. It takes a lot of the work out of it because it counts down the 10 minutes for you, you just have to flip the weight when its done venting - it does the rest. It also works as a slow cooker, you can water bath can in it &...

I went with the Nesco 9.5 quart. https://www.nesco.com/product/9-qt-smart-canner-cooker/ If you have a big pressure canner, this one might kill you because it's small! 4 quarts or 5 pints at a time. (I have 2 that I now run at the same time) You will see some say any electric canners are...

I have a glass top stove & ended up getting an electric canner because I wasn't comfortable taking the risk. Some people buy an electric burner to use their canners on, but I heard from a couple people that they tried it & they don't work that well for canning.

I agree, details would have been great.

Just your PSA - follow safe canning guidelines! https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-likely-died-botulism-washington-182930523.html

You are very right. I opened a jar of it, warmed it up with taco season, a little cheese & salsa & sour cream. I like it, but it is def soft. I think it will be just fine in soup or for tacos.

OMG I didn't even think of soup! He eats soup all the time & loves the taco soup I make - this would work great! I think based on that alone I will can some more hamburger this weekend. I'm gonna get a bag of chicken food in that freezer somehow! :lau

:yesss: Ha! I'm happy, all sealed! I had much better luck with the meat than the broth, I had to reprocess 1 pint & drink a quart for lunches. LOL We wanted to try the chicken so I made it into chicken salad for DH - it wasn't too bad. We'll have to try the hamburger soon.

I'm hoping to get to a (semi) local store that has aisles & aisles of canning stuff. Good time of year, people aren't thinking about it yet. I need some more jars, I have lots of lids - I bought sleeves of them last year online from Lehmans. I have 4 pints of chicken breasts in the canner...

I like to dehydrate squash or zucchini chips when the garden is producing. They are so good, sliced thin like lays potato chips but healthy!

This is the one I have - the Nesco. So far so good. I've canned a bunch of broth & I did lose 2 quarts of broth, but who knows why. I've pressure cooked dinner & dessert in it too, not sure it saves any work or dishes or anything so I'm not sure how much I'll use it for that. But I bought it...