The Front Porch Swing

[Beekissed]

I use a pressure canner, cold pack the meat~either boneless or on the bone~pour stock over it and process for 90 min.

 

[Lacy Blues]

How does every one can chicken?

I don't but I need to learn quickly. My freezer is quite full of processed chickens. Need to learn how to can meat. I have a pressure canner but I'm slightly afraid/intimidated by it as I know accidents can happen. I need to find a manual for it so I do everything right and don't kill anybody.

 

[Lacy Blues]

I use a pressure canner, cold pack the meat~either boneless or on the bone~pour stock over it and process for 90 min.

You cook the meat first, right Bee?

 

[Beekissed]

I am currently "shopping" for seeds on the Pinetree website and I can honestly say this is the only kind of shopping where I have a hard time controlling my impulses. I'd rather shop for seeds than just about anything else. I like Pinetree's selections and prices. I am going totally heirloom on the tomatoes this year and am going to try to use heirloom seeds for a lot of the other veggies as well....they seemed to grow better than the hybrids in my last garden, and those started at home yielded fruit when the rest of the tomatoes rotted on the vine.

We didn't plant a garden last year, so this particular garden was the one the year before when we had odd heavy rains mixed with periods of drought and no one's gardens produced anything around here.

 

[Triple Willow]

Yeah, but I got in truh-bull. 

It is good to see somebody get in trouble besides me! LOL

 

[Beekissed]

You cook the meat first, right Bee?

Nope...cold pack it. Also cold pack deer meat. No need to cook the meat prior to canning.

 

[Beekissed]

I don't but I need to learn quickly. My freezer is quite full of processed chickens. Need to learn how to can meat. I have a pressure canner but I'm slightly afraid/intimidated by it as I know accidents can happen. I need to find a manual for it so I do everything right and don't kill anybody.

Whatever canner you have will have an online manual and canning directions for it. Don't be intimidated by it....it's so easy you'll wonder why you didn't do it all along. Much easier than water bath canning even.

 

[Beekissed]

It's raining here and sending warm little thrills up my spine from the sound on the tin roof. I love that sound and it never ceases to give me the warm fuzzies. Spring will soon be here!

I'm going to keep that heating pad busy this spring with incubating, brooding and also for warming my seed tray. My brother is going to loan me his mold for forming seed pots/plugs and I'm going to make my own mix this year out of peat moss, potting soil, and my soil and leaf litter from my coop floor...it is rich and black with nutrients.

 

[Triple Willow]

I tell ya what! I don't know when I have ever seen it so muddy around here! All the ice and snow has "almost" melted and we have had two days with huge downpours. The ground was soaked beyond capacity before all the rain so the water has nowhere to go. Mud mud everywhere, about sucks your shoes off with every step! Got stuck one time and about fell. LOL

I've seen the two dead baby snakes this winter then today I saw probably 500 geese fly over! In all my years I have never ever seen such around here. You might see a "V" of 20-something or possibly two "V's" but never never ever the sky full of geese! Makes me wonder what is going on because animals can always sense things we can't before they happen. I have been seeing several geese fly over lately. They are all headed north-westish.

*...they were headed North-EASTish, not west.*

 

[Lacy Blues]

Thanks Bee.

How is the nest doing?