Posted on 08/26/2011 10:14:53 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good afternoon gardeners. I hope all of you in the path of Irene heed the warnings and please stay safe! Not much gong on garden wise here in East Central Mississippi. I am just waiting to see how a few paste tomatoes do. And while I am waiting I decided to use some of my pears to make preserves. I am using the recipe I posted on last weeks thread, which calls for a little activity and a lot of waiting. I will be doing the final canning step this morning. This recipe may be way to sweet for my taste. So with all this waiting time I had, I needed to fill the time some how so I ordered a Beer making kit, which I understand includes a lot of waiting also. Now I am just waiting for FR to come back up so I can post this week’s thread. I have been doing a lot of waiting and it is tiring.
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I hope all your gardens are flourishing.
I will get back to you after I receive the kit - it has Every thing needed to get started - so they say. I am interested in making some wine also but that will come later when I get a bumper crop of figs. I would like to try a fig wine.
One question about your pear preserves; did your pears cook down into a mush or did they remain chunky? I have made them from "hard" pears that remained chunky after cooking and was basically just cooking down the pear chunks with sugar till making a thick syrup with tender chunks. They were made from Sand pears, which are common in Mobile, but not Texas. I bought some unidentified pears the other day to make some jam with that turned out the be Bartlet pears. We shall see how that works out.
The kit comes with 30 dark brown bottles plus the caps.
You time for the individual ingredient that takes the longest.
I was thinking I may need to get one or two more kits just so things stay in equilibrium - making - aging - and consuming.
The pear chunks did not mush up. The recipe said to remove the cut up pears from the sugar liquid and cook down the liquid seperate then add the pears back for one min. this is so the chunks did not become mushy and dissolve.
Got my planters moved ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Irene. To all the gardeners and Freepers who will be affected by this storm, please be as safe as you can. God bless.
You will probably get rain overnight, if not right now. I hope Mother Nature remembers that Texas needs rain as well.
So are you suggesting I hire one of your neighbors cows??????
How on earth do people use pantyhose to support spaghetti squash? Can anyone explain the procedure to me?
I finally have one reddish cherry tomato. Woot!
I think to color came from the sugar cooking down.
Put the squish in the stocking when they are babies?
It was only good fortune that they managed to bend mainly the latch, rather than the pipe (tube!) it catches on, to the point of replacement.
It is much easier to unbolt the latch from the gate tube and replace that, than it would have been to have to install a new latch-post.
In the stocking?
Treat the squash like a foot?
Once in awhile that is the approach to use. I found one tomato horn worm this summer- it was on a parsley stem. One I can live with= he likely got parasitized by those little wasps that take over the horn worm for dinner, lunch, breakfast and a snack. Other wise he lived to grow in to one of the moths that look like a hummingbird.
Either way I ignored him. But your situation is different. That calls for action.
I would think your beans were tough because while they looked fine, they are a bit over-ripe. A little on the mature side.
apricots make good wine. Not the viscosity as grapes or whatever, but the flavor is very good assuming one likes apricots in the first place.
Our stock tank is as dry as the Mojave desert and the golf course lake in front of the house is really shrinking. The golf grass is beige, except for the greens. My gardens are gone.
I told a friend I’d be sewing a couple “floopy” dresses to keep decent and a bit cooler tomorrow. She told me I was too late for the hot weather ‘cause next week would be cold, down to the 90s. Bless her heart.
You complaint should be with latch.com and not Tube.net... Case dismissed! Next case clerk..
Oh, no complaint from me with Tube.net; just thought you might have a case...but I guess that was more twisty than bendy. My beef is with Steer.org.
Speaking of steer, the manure they left replenished the tea-tank; should be prime to use come spring.
Chipped up another garden cart (17 cu ft) load of pine cones & got them spread on the garden to be tilled in with a heavy dose 10-10-10; then plant the winter wheat on it.
Last year, neighors planted that area; year before, I planted potatoes on it; year before that it was dirt. By next year, it should be almost soil.
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