That face looks like me when i split my forehead open on a chicken perch! Had to get a bunch of sutures.My gardening, plans have changed since then. I mainly focus on flowers, and flowering trees,,,, although peach trees do produce nice blooms in the spring. At current time,, have no place (spot) for a peach tree. Things may change as other things die off in time.
For always,,,,,,,,, I seek out images in clouds.Does anyone else see the image of a face looking towards the upper right corner??
I do now that you pointed it out!Does anyone else see the image of a face looking towards the upper right corner??
I also see cloud pictures, and faces in wood grain as well. Lots of faces in other places too.
Oh dear! This is why I only use tempered glass jars intended for canning, or canning jars such as those made by Kerr or Ball companies. And when I can, I make sure the entire jar is covered with boiling water, at least an inch higher than the tops of the jars so the glass is all the same temperature for the entire canning time. Changes in temperature can cause damage to the glass like that. So sorry this happened!This post of mine will be devoted to meanness and deceit.
Yesterday I continued to do canning.
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Look what one of the jars showed me! The bottom just took off and fell off, now it's not a jar, but some kind of glass funnel!
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Fortunately, there were no pieces of broken glass there, and I managed to transfer the lecho from this jar to the pan in time.
Perhaps my habit of collecting jars let me down. I have a strange hobby - I really love different jars and collect them even in the garbage heaps (!). For these jars, we buy lids in whole boxes, there are screw lids of various sizes, some that require rolling (with a special machine), there are even lids of a foreign (not Russian) design, which for some reason cost ten times more.
Looking at this picture,, I judge that the soil is sandy. Areas with such soil types are great for planting potatoes. I remember you posted about planting potatoes,,, and everyone else in your vicinity. Of course fertilizer is needed to get a good crop,, but the sandy soil is equally important. In my area,, the soil is not ideal for such,, to grow potatoes. commercially. Yes,, there are individual gardeners that do so,, but with much added amendment to soil. Potato growing areas are 250 miles to the north of me.
Thank you, this was fascinating! You must have quite a collection of very interesting jars!Perhaps my habit of collecting jars let me down. I have a strange hobby - I really love different jars and collect them even in the garbage heaps (!). For these jars, we buy lids in whole boxes, there are screw lids of various sizes, some that require rolling (with a special machine), there are even lids of a foreign (not Russian) design, which for some reason cost ten times more.
If I'm buying fish like canned sprats, I always go for glass jars with screw caps so I can use both lids and jars, and if I'm in town and I'm thirsty, I'm more likely to buy juice in a glass jar than a bottle of cola. If I go to some semi-hardware store, then there I will definitely grab some canning jars and lids.
Every year I close at least 500 jars of jam, leche and cucumbers, and then I open them and eat them all the year.
Not far from the village, someone decided to litter and threw empty glass jars on the edge of the forest, I came there with a wheelbarrow and took them all. Neighbors praised me. they say what a fine fellow I am, that I clean up garbage in the forest, but I don’t clean up anything, I just came and took all the empty cans. Subsequently, I washed them with boiling water with cleaning powder, washed them again with just boiling water, and now they contain apple jam.
I have a whole collection of jars, there are even pre-revolutionary glass jars that are over 100 years old , there are jars of German cucumbers "Henstenberg", full of jars from some new Russian "Uncle Vanya" (something like a Russian parody of "Uncle Bens"), there are banks even of Italian and Spanish production, it is not clear how they ended up here at all.
Specifically, this jar was from canned pumpkin juice, it was successfully used for one year, in the second year - I suspect that I put too thin a rag in the pan and the bottom was too hot when boiling, well, the jar itself was not reliable. The remaining 3 or 4 of these jars have passed this "test", now they contain tomato lecho.
But the Kerr or Ball companies i don`t have in my collection jet, maybe because Rusia is too far )
Those standards of caps that take place here are slightly different, Russian caps may not fit them in size and thread.
Be that as it may, if they come across somewhere on sale, I will get them for the collection and pack some jam in them
