Posted on 08/29/2014 12:20:32 PM PDT by greeneyes
I have a 22 quart pressure canner, and I used to do lots of canning on the XL44..
I haven't done any on the Premier. The burner grates, and enamel seem a lot less sturdy. I always worry about chipping the enamel around the little hole that is supposed to anchor the burner grate. I always figured I could use the side burner on my gas grill, but now I'm wondering if the weight of a 22 quart canner would flip the whole thing over easily if the propane tank wasn't full..
Kinda like the one Congressman thought Guam could tip over if everyone moved to one side of it..
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Then we’re kind of neighbors and yes, I have seen trees changing color already.
Yes, it was cynical bear who posted that.
Spent most of my time at Fisherman's Wharf. Toured the USS Pampanito, the SS Jeremiah O'Brien, and wandered around and gawked at . lol
I'm not much for spending time in the big city, but as they go this one is a nice place to visit. That said, I'll be very happy to get out of here tomorrow. Navy son Clint is coming up from San Diego and then we're off to Calistoga for some sprint car racing.
Our weather has has been just lovely for gardening in Benderville this year and I can’t think of one failure. Everything is one month ahead except the pumpkins and that is because I planted them late but there is time for them.
As an update to that I still have no blight and even have new fruit on the plants that had it. I also started new plants that I set in same spot as plants that died from blight and have no blight on the new plants! I also got rid of the blight on watermelon, cucumber, basil, grean beans, and strawberry plants.
Well, here in CNY we only have a few weeks of the growing season left. The plants look like they’re done producing. It’s more a matter now of waiting for the remaining fruit on the plants to ripen.
So for me, it doesn’t matter at this point. I certainly will keep it in mind for next year, though.
Now, if someone can come up with something for those blasted squash bugs, THAT I could use.
I tried diatomaceous earth and that seemed to help wonderfully. Until it got washed off in the rain.
I’m thinking of trying fly paper next year, laid across the top of the vine closest to the ground. It seems that that is where I see the damage to the plant so I’m thinking if I can get them stuck to the fly paper, then they can’t lay their eggs in the plant.
Depends if we have another rainy season. If it’s dry, it’s not so good for a crop but the stuff for combating the bugs would work better.
Got that one solved this year also! I can't think that of the exact brand name right now (will look tomorrow and get that to yo) but it's "garden, livestock, and pet dust" (yes that's the name on the bag). It's piretrin based and KILLS THEM FAST! I dust after the flowers close for the night (bees etc only touch the inside of the flower) so no dust gets inside the flower. NOTHING else works. Since squash bugs stay on the plant all night they are all dead within 15 minutes or less. So if you want to further protect the butterflies and other good bugs you can wash the dust off very early the next morning. That's what I do especially on my flower beds that were being decimated by grasshoppers. Works on tomato horn worms, white flies and most every bug problem I had.
That should be pirethrin based. Much safer than seven or something like that.
Oh, one more thing (actually two). I dust every other week unless I see a problem. Also I took a plastic peanut butter jar and drilled 1/8” holes in the lid to make a duster which works great. Make sure you also dust around the plant next to the ground to keep from getting those borers.
Thanks for the update. I wonder if it would work on melons? My vines always die before they get ripe. I have assumed that it’s some sort of fungal thing, but don’t know for sure.
Well the first year I planted melons they did great. After that Nada.
That’s wonderful news. I am so thankful for all the bounty this year. Most of our stuff has done well except the perennials. They are still trying to recover from the summer drought and hard winter I think.
I haven’t been to Fisherman’s Wharf since I was in grade school. California was a nice place to visit and tour, and I loved the beach.
Glad you are having a good time. My desire to visit big cities is now almost extinct, as is my desire to fly anywhere. Maybe that means I am getting old.LOL
Be careful, and stay safe.
Thanks.
They do have a product that you put on in the evening that wears off by morning - can’t remember what it is called, but I think it starts with a pyr - so maybe it’s the same or similar thing to what you are talking about.
Hubby has so much squash, we can’t even keep up with it, and so far he’s had no bug problem. I can’t even believe it, but he really has worked hard on getting great soil.
He told me a while ago that the zukes he planted a while back have starting blooming. He planted 12 zuke plants. If they do as well as the summer squash, we will be buried alive.LOL
Thank you for the link. It will help this first time acorn squash grower.
Thanks for the recipe and the stuffing info.
You might like this recipe for green tomato relish:
12 green tomatoes (10-12 cups chopped?)
1 red and 1 green pepper
4 large onions
1 tbsp. salt
1 c. dark honey
1 c. vinegar
1 tbsp. mustard seed
1 tbsp. celery seed
Chop tomatoes, onions and peppers coarsely. Drain.
Add remaining ingredients and mix. Cook slowly until
tender, about 20 min. Put into hot clean jars, leaving
1/2” head space. Adjust lids, processing in boiling water
bath — pints, 10 min.; quarts 15 min.
When you find out the name, let me know.
I really try to not use any insecticide, but up until last year, have not had a problem.
One thing I’m doing, and I don’t know if it’s going to help is when I pull up the dead zucchini plants that the stems are rotted out on, I pour a soup pot full of boiling water in a circle around the area where the roots were, and then flood the middle with boiling water.
I’m thinking that it would kill any eggs that might have been laid in the soil.
Years ago, I saw a farmer preparing his field and he had a tiller turning over the soil and mounted above the part tilling was a row of basically flame throwers shooting flames down onto the soil, sterilizing it as the soil was overturned.
I thought it was a great idea for destroying pests and disease that could affect a crop that is planted in the same field several years in a row.
Unfortunately, we don’t have anything more than my husbands little hand held propane torches for plumbing. It would take too long to do my garden, even though it is not huge.
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