"Miss my hummers that seem to have left me this week. :-("
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Michele Saari
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Michele Saari replied to Michele Saari's discussion Harvesting and preserving in the group Vegetable Gardens"Thanks, nice tip. I never heard of the straw trick before. I will give it a try.
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Michele Saari replied to Michele Saari's discussion Harvesting and preserving in the group Vegetable Gardens"Thanks, Robert. I have a water bath canner.
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Robert E Brown--z7b8aNC replied to Michele Saari's discussion Harvesting and preserving in the group Vegetable Gardens"If you have a pressure canner, you can also can the beans. It isn't recommended that you can beans with a water bath canner though. To learn how to can just about anything, there is a website:
http://www.pickyourown.org//allaboutcanning.htm"
Cyndi Fusek replied to Michele Saari's discussion Harvesting and preserving in the group Vegetable Gardens"I have never grown string beans. But, with bush beans, you should boil water, dump some beans in for 3 minutes. Then remove and immediately dump in ice-cold water (and add ice) for 3 minutes (this stops the cooking process and preserves flavor,…"
Michele Saari added a discussion to the group Vegetable Gardens
Harvesting and preserving
We are getting the most wonderful harvest this year. We are sharing a lot of it but would also like to keep some for ourselves for future use. We are making tomato sauce and canning it. I have made dill pickles from the cucumbers. I have an overabundance of string beans but not sure what prep work to do prior to freezing them. Does anybody know? See More
Michele Saari replied to Linda K. Reed's discussion Backache free weeding tips in the group Zone 5"Don't know if you have help, but if you do, this was my solution. My son-in-law laid out a carpet of landscape fabric over where I wanted to put in some flowe beds and covered it in wood chip mulch. Then I cut a hole in the fabric everywhere I…"
Michele Saari replied to Ileana Reha's discussion When will I get Tomatoes? in the group Vegetable Gardens"Tomatoes take patience - careful not to remove the flowers and tickle them gently. Go from one flower to the next very gently with a q-tip or feather and that will pollinate if you don't have bees around - wait till you taste your first…"
Profile Information
- Which category best describes you?
- Recreational Gardener
- Skill level
- Intermediate
- What kind of gardening do you like to do?
- flower vegetable organic
- How much time do you spend a week on average in your garden when weather permits?
- 8 hours
Comment Wall (1 comment)
- At 8:00pm on July 28, 2010, Hank Miller said…
- I find that my Lobellia plants seem to be the best for drawing the Hummers. I also have BeeBalm, Keys of Heaven and they also seem to enjoy the "Millions of Bells," in red. I used to have some Penstemon plants (red again) that they see to like. Often they also go to the Coneflowers and it doesn't seem to matter what color of them.
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