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That sounds delicious! How much butter are we talking about using for this?

I can't believe that I'm still getting tomatoes and green peppers from my organic vegetable garden here in Virginia! I got 3 and 1/4 pounds of tomatoes with 9 tomatoes and almost six pounds of green peppers with 60 peppers this week! We've had three successive heavy frosts, so I'm sure the...

Does anyone have experience/suggestions they would like to share concerning the use of row covers for protecting veggies such as broccoli, lettuce, collards and Swiss chard from the weight and or cold from 2 to 3 inches of snow when the ground doesn't freeze hard? These veggies will tolerate the...

The recipe says to add water to prevent sticking, but I use apple juice with no added sugar. I like the crock pot idea. Even if I used two of them at once, it sure would be better than all that stirring. That gets old quick! Thanks for the suggestion. Jared77, that apple cider would be a richer...

Here's one that I use for absolutely delicious relish. Even though I use the word relish, it's so good that I have made a sandwich of it with nothing else. You can eat a spoonful of it and your taste buds will just LOVE it! I try to make it every year. I used an old hurdy-gurdy grinder that...

I was successful in my apple quest! I picked up two more bushels of Staymans on Saturday. By the end of this week, I'll have a year's worth of homemade applesauce (with no added sugar) all canned and stored up. Now I have to work on additional shelving!!!

When cooking applesauce, you can't walk away, even with the heat on low because it will stick and then burn in the bottom of the pot. Been there, done that last year. Experience is a great teacher! On a gas range using a thin-walled stainless steel stock pot, I had to stir, wait less than a...

I was looking for good apples to make applesauce with. I bought a bushel of Stayman apples because the Farmer said that people were coming back to her saying that those apples made the best applesauce ever! They were right! I made 8 quarts of cinamon applesauce with no added sugar, and it tastes...

I agree with Lesa on saving seeds for any major event that will/can take place. Save your own. I have started to store my own seeds so that I know what I actually have that will grow well in my soil. Saving seeds every year or two isn't a hard thing to do. I consider myself to be prepared for...

Since May, I've planted three types of cucumbers in succession after the previous ones died, and all the plants vined up, flowered, then died. I've had tremendous cuc harvests in the past years, but not this year. Not a single cucumber. Anyone else had unusual problems with cucumbers this year?

Thanks for the reply! I appreciate your help.