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I did the big cheat. Gallon cans of tomato sauce was such a deal... but I could not use it all at once so I canned it in pints.
For $2.69 it sure was easier that growing them, cleaning them, and processing them down. But I still feel shameful.
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Pozees said:
Throw in a last minute decision to plant a single pumpkin plant in the same bed, which I had never grown, that turned into The Plant That Ate The Garden, and the only ones I ever could find were enormous and yellow and very tough.

Interested in any recommendations for which variety to plant.
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I did the same thing. Planted a pumpkin (never done before) on a whim because everyone said the chickens would love them. I have about 8 great looking pumpkins and a ginormous plant that literally choked out half of my tomatoes, ate my cukes and cabbage and was seriously threatening my strawberries. All from one initially tiny pumpkin plant. Never again, or at least not in my official garden area. I have grown cukes for years, but have never found a variety that gave me what I thought were good 'small' varieties. I'm sure they are out there, this winter I'm going to look for them. Ooooh Oooooh, I'll ask at The Easy Garden.
 
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I canned my end of season green beans and when I pulled them out of the canner they had turned brown. The water is brown the bean pods are brown and the seeds are brown. What the heck happened? Can I still eat these? All of the jars sealed but I'm just not sure what went wrong.
 
It sounds like the beans may have been a bit too mature. I had this happen when I cooked some of my beans earlier in the year. They were obviously too mature, but I blanched them and froze them anyway. I don't think it'll hurt you if the jars sealed well. They just aren't as pretty as we'd like.
 
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I did the same thing. Planted a pumpkin (never done before) on a whim because everyone said the chickens would love them. I have about 8 great looking pumpkins and a ginormous plant that literally choked out half of my tomatoes, ate my cukes and cabbage and was seriously threatening my strawberries. All from one initially tiny pumpkin plant. Never again, or at least not in my official garden area. I have grown cukes for years, but have never found a variety that gave me what I thought were good 'small' varieties. I'm sure they are out there, this winter I'm going to look for them. Ooooh Oooooh, I'll ask at The Easy Garden.
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LOL I don't even have the chicken excuse - I planted it because it was a 50 cent plant on the sale rack. This year I tried putting all my squash plants - a pumpkin included - in mounds - another pathetic failure, as the water runs down the side of the mounds instead of into them.
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Next year I'll go up another course on the timbers around the mounds and level the soil. It at least kept them away from all the other plants. Extremely low production because of the watering issue, but oh well, live and learn. Eagerly anticipate info from The Easy Garden - don't know that one but it sounds good!
 
gardendufus said:
I did the same thing. Planted a pumpkin (never done before) on a whim because everyone said the chickens would love them. I have about 8 great looking pumpkins and a ginormous plant that literally choked out half of my tomatoes, ate my cukes and cabbage and was seriously threatening my strawberries. All from one initially tiny pumpkin plant. Never again, or at least not in my official garden area. I have grown cukes for years, but have never found a variety that gave me what I thought were good 'small' varieties. I'm sure they are out there, this winter I'm going to look for them. Ooooh Oooooh, I'll ask at The Easy Garden.
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I've been askeerd of my pumpkin plants! I think they're hatching out a plan to take over the house, like kudzu or something. They are the only thing that actually threatens the blackberries around here. I have pumpkin that has grown up the blackberry mound and have smallish pumpkins suspended in the midst of the blackberry thicket. Not sure how to get to them.........anyway, those things are kinda scary how fast they grow. I planted 3 little seedling plants and I think we have almost 2 dozen huge pumpkins. Like, huge I'm going to drive the truck down there to harvest them cause I'm not carrying those things far!
 
I am looking for a good hot pepper jelly recipe. i tried one i found on the internet, but it did not live up to my expectations.

Does any one have a tried and true recipe that they use and like a lot and would be willing to share with me?????
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