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I made this birdbath with a $1.88 plastic plant saucer from Walmart, some waterproof glue (I'll use clear drying glue next time) and glass rocks from aquariums that I used to have. I placed this on top of an old terra cotta pot that is too cracked to plant anything in anymore but too pretty to...

These pics were taken yesterday. In one tub (former ice chests) I've got Italian parsley, sweet basil, oregano and chives growing. In the other tub I've got sage, thyme, rosemary and dill. My little bay laurel tree has officially died. I'll have to get another one next year, hopefully a...

I've been talking about how the baby ground squirrels have been eating my pole beans. I planted a mix of burgundy and green pole beans. They only ate the green bean plants.

Here are some pics of my garden that I took yesterday. My corn is starting to tassel and my okra are blooming. My tomatoes are loaded and startin to ripen. I'm so proud of my cantaloup and have found some tiny watermelons on the vines. I'm not sure I'll actually get any watermelon ready to...

This is what I gathered from my garden yesterday. Some of you might remember that I have been bemoaning the lack of pattypan squash on my plants, and all of a sudden they appear, ready to be picked.

That is just wonderful. Great job Grandma! Oh, you too OEGBman.

Pickled Banana or Hungarian Peppers from Kerr canning book @ 1966 Thoroughly wash peppers. Make a small slit in each one in two places. Put the peppers in a brine made of 1 gal. water to 2 cups of salt. Weight to hold peppers under brine. Next day, drain well and pack peppers into...

The amount of salt and vinegar in these pickles, makes processing unnecessary. Just store in a cool, dark place. The jars seal from the hot brine, as they cool. The brine must be boiling hot when added to the jars.

My dad has used Aneheim peppers for chilie rellenos for my whole life and has passed the recipe on to me, of course. I do believe, although I'm not positive, that the "canned" whole green chilies you find on the store shelves are also Aneheim chilies after they have been roasted, of course...

Karanleaf, about my photography skills... they are non-existant. I'm lucky to just get the tomato in the picture. The camera is new. The company replaced it instead of repairing it. The camera is just a $20 digital from Walmart. I'm a terrible photographer and consequently, the family jokes...

After reading this thread, I'm so glad to have put a metal garbage can ring around each of my melon hills. It is a metal garbage can cut in half and the bottom cut out. I originally put these around my melon hills to help protect them from the ground squirrel assault but am thinking that it'll...

I just recieved my camera back from repair today and, coincidentally, found my first ripe tomatoes ready to pick in the garden. So here's the pic. DS also picked quite a few of his first Aneheim peppers as well.

Adding Alum is supposed to help keep them crisp, I'm told, but I personally don't use it. You could also put in a grape leaf in each jar...same principal I guess. Make sure that your cucs are not soft before putting up the pickles. I posted my recipe on here previously...

What about running them through a "frencher" and just freezing them like normal? I betcha that's why "french sliced" beans were created, cause somebody left the beans on the vine a bit too long. :lol:

Well, those of you that have been reading my posts are aware that I have a family of ground squirrels living under my house and that they have been ravaging my garden some. I have two T-post tee-pees at the end of my garden bed and had planted about 16 pole bean plants around the base of them...

Thanks Bill. I always see squashes in the store that I want to try, but I'm stumped when it comes to how to fix them. This site will help me to become more adventurous with squash, I hope.

Pat, I did just that same thing with my blackberries. I made jam and, instead of making a cobbler now, canned two jars of cobbler filling. Luckily, I've already got plans to aquire more blackberries. The local Blackberrie Festival is coming up next weekend.

Today I made no-sugar blackberry jam, my grandma's bread-n-butter pickles recipe and canned 2 quarts of blackberries without sugar to use for cobblers in the winter months. I can't wait to get more blackberries to make more. Blackberry cobbler is one of my families favorites. I guess you...

After waiting for DS to come home from work and bring me the fresh dill (he works freight crew at the biggest grocery store in town), he forgot to get it. So, I made dill chips with some dried dill weed that I had in the pantry. I used 1 Tbsp per pint jar, and the pickles came out tasting...

As a result of putting a chicken wire tent over my lettuce bed to outsmart the ground squirrels, I was able to harvest most of my lettuce crop today. I left some towards the front of the bed that wasn't big enough, in my opinion, and I left the roots in the ground from the rest of it hoping...