Gardening
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BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
I'll be picking some sweetcorn today or tomorrow. My coon deterrent has been working great! Got it cranked on a bee-bop station
Couple disposable pie pans, some golden malrin and a can of coke staged around the edges of your garden and the coons wont ever set foot in there.
browndog
5 year old buck +
I hate coons but I won't go illegal on them with golden malrin...that"s just the way I roll. Four rechargeable batteries and a radio has been super effective. No sweetcorn lost this year with the radio playing.
trampledbyturtles
5 year old buck +
No pics, but if anyone else is like me at the moment. I over did it with the zucchini plants. Now they r not my favorite veg to begin with, but...
Last night I found my favorite new use. Pickled Zuc Noodles.
Use one of the machines that spiralize a zuc or cucumber.
Pack quart jar.
Add roughly a 1/3cup sugar
Chunk of fresh ginger
chopped garlic
musterd seed
chili flake
cover in white vinegar
let set at least overnight, an consume. Really refreshing, and makes for an easy side dish.
Anyone else have a good use for Zucchini, I am about to be overrun with the stuff,
Last night I found my favorite new use. Pickled Zuc Noodles.
Use one of the machines that spiralize a zuc or cucumber.
Pack quart jar.
Add roughly a 1/3cup sugar
Chunk of fresh ginger
chopped garlic
musterd seed
chili flake
cover in white vinegar
let set at least overnight, an consume. Really refreshing, and makes for an easy side dish.
Anyone else have a good use for Zucchini, I am about to be overrun with the stuff,
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
Oh man, double chocolate zucchini bread is great stuff!
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My wife makes excelleny baked zucchini, with spaghetti sauce, diced chicken, and mozarella.
My mother-in-law asked me this spring how many zucchini plants she should have in the garden. I told her 1/2. Lol I have just one plant in our garden and there's still too many for my wife and I to keep up. The dogs and horses love them too though.
My mother-in-law asked me this spring how many zucchini plants she should have in the garden. I told her 1/2. Lol I have just one plant in our garden and there's still too many for my wife and I to keep up. The dogs and horses love them too though.
BuckSutherland
5 year old buck +
I made some jalapeno German dill pickles this weekend. 24 quarts split with my buddy. They are awesome. Just the right amount of flame and assburn that goes awesome with a case of beer in the fish house.
Ha! I'm pretty sure I've never seen "assburn " and "fish house" in the same sentence!!!!!
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Mahindra3016
5 year old buck +
I have been growing great sweet corn the last three years using no fertilizer what so ever, and i owe alot of what i have learned to the food plot forum, i plant my whole garden in winter peas, rye, and tillage radish, and this is the result.
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Mahindra - Great looking ears of corn !!!! Evidently your soil is pretty built up if there's no fertilizer used. Corn takes a lot of N out of the soil. Nice job on the crop rotation !!
So ............ I'd accept an invite to a corn roast ............... !!!!!!!
So ............ I'd accept an invite to a corn roast ............... !!!!!!!
Mahindra3016
5 year old buck +
Mahindra - Great looking ears of corn !!!! Evidently your soil is pretty built up if there's no fertilizer used. Corn takes a lot of N out of the soil. Nice job on the crop rotation !!
So ............ I'd accept an invite to a corn roast ............... !!!!!!!
thank you, I do also ad compost in the fall that i make, so maybe you could count that as fertilizer, no store bought fertilizer though.
trampledbyturtles
5 year old buck +
Been a long couple of nights after work, but it is harvest season. First year at attempting canning, so far so good.
Since grandma passed I have not been able to recreate my favorite dish of hers, cabbage rolls, so I figured it had to be missing the home aid stewed tomato's, so I decided to finally give it a go.
Dang tomato prep with blanching then peeling would go quicker with a helper that's for sure.
Had one issue on this last dozen, 4 jars did not seal tight, so am contemplating reprocessing tonight,
any suggestions on what might have went wrong, I made sure all rims were clean an left proper head space.
Only failures so far out of 7 dozen jars, just thought it was weird to have 4 in one batch an 0 out of all the rest.
So far have done green beans, beets, zucchini, 3 doz pickle spears, Stewed tomato's, an tomato sauce.
Learning experience for sure.
Since grandma passed I have not been able to recreate my favorite dish of hers, cabbage rolls, so I figured it had to be missing the home aid stewed tomato's, so I decided to finally give it a go.
Dang tomato prep with blanching then peeling would go quicker with a helper that's for sure.
Had one issue on this last dozen, 4 jars did not seal tight, so am contemplating reprocessing tonight,
any suggestions on what might have went wrong, I made sure all rims were clean an left proper head space.
Only failures so far out of 7 dozen jars, just thought it was weird to have 4 in one batch an 0 out of all the rest.
So far have done green beans, beets, zucchini, 3 doz pickle spears, Stewed tomato's, an tomato sauce.
Learning experience for sure.
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Quick pro tip for faster tomato peeling- toss the tomatoes into bags in the freezer after washing and coring them, then thaw the night before you need them in the sink. The skins peel right off, and a lot of the water that you'd have to cook out will go right down the drain as you thaw them.
John-W-WI
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Its almost always that the lid and jar weren't clean enough. I've had them fail when they cool too fast, but that usually means the lids dent down. When they don't seal it's either a nick in the jar or foreign matter somewhere.
Not much help, but it happens to all of us.
-John
trampledbyturtles
5 year old buck +
thz for the info fellas, still learning
brand new jars so don't think that was the case, an made sure to wipe them extra clean,
After thinking a bit on the process I used I may have figured out my problem,
This time I skipped preheating the jar an lids because I was placing a hot liquid into the jars an straight into the pressure canner.
Thinking maybe the lids with the rubber ring did not soften enough to form a good seal.
Not sure,
will re-can tonight an soften the lids in simmering water first, an report back with results.
Edit: reprocessed last night, this time I pre-warmed the lids in a pot with low simmering water to soften the rubber rings slightly just prior to placing the jars in the canner.
All worked just fine, will be doing this from now on
Anyone have any favorite recipes or things they like to can for the winter?
brand new jars so don't think that was the case, an made sure to wipe them extra clean,
After thinking a bit on the process I used I may have figured out my problem,
This time I skipped preheating the jar an lids because I was placing a hot liquid into the jars an straight into the pressure canner.
Thinking maybe the lids with the rubber ring did not soften enough to form a good seal.
Not sure,
will re-can tonight an soften the lids in simmering water first, an report back with results.
Edit: reprocessed last night, this time I pre-warmed the lids in a pot with low simmering water to soften the rubber rings slightly just prior to placing the jars in the canner.
All worked just fine, will be doing this from now on
Anyone have any favorite recipes or things they like to can for the winter?
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