Recent content by Mackay

I'm recanning... this is exhausting!:barnie

All right ... I'm a dunce. I got my recipes confused and I pressure canned my pintos for 50 minutes instead of the 90 that every recipe Ive looked at says. So I looked at a bunch of different pressure canning recipes and the times are quite variable.. Green beans requires 45 minutes for...

Thanks everyone. I did recook those bottles that did not seal properly. I think the problem was that I might have closed the lids too tight.. after reviewing a couple of you tubes I saw that it said to close the rings with finger power only... well we screwed them on real tight... then my...

Well, I did a pressure cook on them. Guess I could do it over again.. have to pressure cook them again for 50 minutes? I wonder if this has anything to do with the tattler lids. Im sure my rims were quite clean.

I used my new American canner for the first time yesterday canning beans with tattler lids. out of 11 jars only 3 sealed.. and by sealing I mean that the center dome on the lid did not suck down and become concave as they generally do. When I take the rings off it seems like the lids are on...

thanks.... they still appear quite green and vibrant so I guess I have to wait a while.

thanks.... they still appear quite green and vibrant so I guess I have to wait a while.

Hi Everyone, I planted garlic last fall. Shelled out for some too expensive hard neck german garlic. Its now about 18 inches tall and came to life about 9 or 10 weeks ago. When is the right time to harvest this? thanks.

thanks for the replies.. well blood meal is nitrogen and bone meal is calcium, and calcium reduces ph doesn't it? . I can try that and I can add buckets of forest compost made of pine needles and bark.. a very fine half composted mix. I was going to put in a bunch of egg shells this year...

I had 13 kale plants last year and ended up selling much of it to the local grocery store.. 50 stems for $10 was my price, and I took in a bunch once a week, and he sold it all. Paid for a new raised bed!:celebrate I also froze a lot of it too: take 5 or 6 kale leaves and remove the spine...

Zone 3 is pretty hopeless this time of year, even though we are having an early spring. My gogi Berries are up in the sunroom, and outside the rhubarb is about one inch tall. Garlic is coming up too, but I worry that since our last frost day is June 15 it all might get taken out. Better get...

Although I garden organically, I'm wondering what all those large inorganic potato growers put on their soil to make their potatoes grow year after year on the same spot. Any ideas?

they are just producing now, in July, which could be due to our short growing season. Im sure the canes bearing fruit are two years old. Guess I will have to see what happens in the fall. How do you tell the difference between old canes and new canes in the fall?

I know this is a bit late for you but it may help in the future. I have two 4 x 12 beds and two 4 x 4 beds and I have put very little soil in them and paid next to nothing for the soil within I started buy nailing galvanized 1/2 inch square wire to the bottom to keep the voles out. Then lined...

This is my third year on my raspberry patch and I finally have a harvest. They are a thornless variety that does well in cold high altitude climates. I don't know the variety name. What I need to know about is pruning. Should I prune the canes that produced this year or leave them?