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[Chickielady]

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Thank you...It has been so many years since I did any major canning I have forgotten. All I have done over the past few years is jams. Every year I get my Ball canning book out - I think I have had that book for 30+ years.

Well, lunch break is over....back to work. Everyone have a nice day.

I know tomatoes are okay, but with so many bell peppers changing the acidity, I don't risk it. Cowardly me - still alive me!

I do not add that many, say the mixture is 100% tomato juice, and 3/4 of the vegies added are tomatoes, it all works out.
My Mom also adds lime juice to her salsa, it gives the salsa a really nice and authentic zip!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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He used to sell at the Oly Farmer's Market, but is now mostly selling by contract (primarily to restaurants and caterers, I suspect) as far as I know. This is the time of year he showed up at the market, so if I get there this weekend I'll pay attention and see if he's there.

I am most definetly making my strawberries in pipe 'towers' such as he has.
Have you seen the pics?
Absolutely awesome!
No worry over slugs either!
No stooping to pick or weed, and saves so much time with less water!
I have miles or irrigation tubing, fittings, tiny sprinklers & timers that I saved from when we were in California.
This will be an addition to the garden next year, along with a fiberglass roof on the green house, instead of plastic film.

I noticed that Home Depot has that UV resistant corrugated vinyl greenhouse roofing now: you used to have to shlep to a back road between McMinnville and Salem to get it. Expensive, though, but easier to cut than the other fiberglass/clear vinyl or raggin fraggin polyurethane stuff.

I'm reverting to the reinforced rollgoods right now, but that's at least partly because my roof frame is four twelve-foot welded steel gates, and somebody some time is going to replace that with a lighter, easier to vent system. It's supposed to be a sheep stall and young fowl housing this winter, anyway, and then next year someone somewhere is going to clean out the barn, help me pour a floor, and turn it into fowl raising quarters (seriously: a 24X24 barn in use for storing stuff which has aged sufficiently to throw away now!).

 

[Chickielady]

I expected this expensive 6 ml plastic film to last this & through next year...but I see a few tears in it already!
We have not even had that much nasty wind/weather!
This film was installed in March!
I also bought another roll of the same as a vapor barrier under the house.
Hope that lasts longer than what was exposed on the green house.
I am very disapointed in this stuff.
Sold at HD!!!!!!!!

 

[Chickielady]

The corrugated vinyl panels HD has are still super expensive...I am going to at least get the single-ply wavy-type fiberglas panels for this year.
The corrugated too rich for me at the present all funds are going into the house.

 

[herbandteas]

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We bought the same thing put it on september 2010 it is falling apart now!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Yeah- I'm done with HD for roll goods. This is the 100ft by 6 ft wide greenhouse tarp, UV resistant vinyl over polyester mesh stuff which I've got spooled on a pipe on my front porch- ordered from a wholesale greenhouse supply place. I've been inadvertantly testing its qualities this summer, including such usually disasterous exposures as "wadded up and stuck in a roll of rusty yard fencing so it will stop blowing around" and it hasn't lost flexibility nor shown a proclivity to getting holes punched through, which is good, I think?

 

[ReiMiraa]

i am soooo ticked off by that Dr. Oz show. bad science and now he could potentially ruin an industry.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Oh, me too- I'm just aspiring to it, especially since it's about R-10 and my greenhouse is in the shade from November 10th until about the first of February, which is why it is currently abandoned. It'd be nice to have it a bit insulated!

I'm supposed to be working on the Wyandotte house right now, but I went to tether the sheep where he can do serious damage to some of the most inconvenient blackberries and was taken with the overwhelming urge to get rid of some inconvenient pine branches. An hour and a half later, I'm reminded of why I didn't do that earlier this year in the form of owie wrists, elbows, and shoulders, with a bonus of about a pound of driveway dust, pollen, and other summer detritus that had been loosely stuck on the pine needles and is now up my nose and in my hair. So I'm about to do the final check of all the feed and water and then take a shower and wash my hair. Well, move the sheep a little so he can get more #!&#@!^%~!!! Himalaya freaking evil blackberries, the end.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Oh, dear, what did that fool do this time?

 

[Sudsy Chick]

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All of your Icelandics are beautiful! Especially the girl with the crest in the second pic

Did you get many girls with crests? I want them so badly - my heritage is Icelandic and I love how you never know what you'll get and how different they are. However - I don't know that our backyard is the right place for the breed. Someday!