Thanks! Hey you know the dehydrator thing is so easy . https://practicalselfreliance.com/dehydrator-recipes/So do you just swirl the seeds up with the vinegar instead of fermenting? Does the vinegar work with cuke seeds, too?
All of those gourds are such fun to look at, @Acre4Me! Do you dry them for any purpose at the end of the season? Not sure about the fig...we'd like to grow those ourselves. I, too, have heard about folding them over and burying them 'til spring, just as @Sueby was saying. Maybe ask someone at your local nursery?
Another snow fort kid here, BTW. I'm native to the Motor City, but we have many family in the UP in Sault Ste. Marie. You want to see SNOW? They get SNOW! Forget forts, my cousins and I would build tunnel complexes. Such a ball!
Your peppers and tomatoes look gorgeous, BTW!
@NewBoots That all looks amazing! Very pretty apples, I miss the trees we planted in WV. And hooray for Natasha! The Swedish Flowers are very pretty—we saw them for the first time at the Ohio National last year and I was quite enamored of them.
Is there a good site for dehydrator recipes? A very sweet woman at church thrust hers at us a couple of Sundays ago because she never uses it. I'd love to put it to good use!
Handsome RV gate, @igorsMistress! And the chicks look so cute.
That's a nice-looking pumpkin, congrats!
Gorgeous garden, @drstratton!
Oh, now this makes me want to can with plastic caterpillars in the jars of dilly beans. Surprise inside!
Nice to see you with your pop, @karenerwin!
If you still need paper plates, @Sueby, I think we still have some left from our Independence Day BBQ... ;P
We had on-and-off rain again during the weekend, plus we were helping our neighbor with a few things. We also have a 500' gravel drive that really needed weeding—and everything near the house is done by hand because of our animals. Amazingly, I only broke one nail! Y'all eat more eggs, they make for strong nails.Still plenty of tomatoes coming in; not quite enough to put up, unfortunately, before they start to turn, so I may just begin popping them into the freezer. Whether or not they'll become good salsa...ehhhhh...oh well. The beans aren't producing very heavily, either, but we're getting enough to make a good snack or part of a side dish.
I've also been creating many vibrant, cheery nasturtium bouquets! One of my yellow-orangey varieties smells like roses. That's new! Is there a way to save nasturtium leaves, by the way, other than pesto-fying them? I might freeze a small bagful to see if they end up acting like frozen spinach.
Tomorrow I hope to get some starts going for the fall/winter garden. Probably means some things will be yanked...Unfortunately my friends the mosquitoes managed to find me repellent-less and left me in somewhat bad shape, but that is what coffee is for!
Happy gardening!
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He's tried the homemade epsom salt, dawn & vinegar spray but it doesn't work, he even tried burning with a torch, but nothing works like weed killer. 
