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I would love to heat more about your solar dehydrator! That sounds like a very excellent solution! I've been wanting to make a solar oven, is there a way to have a dual purpose solar unit?

Ive been reading some recipes on pickled eggplant and would love to give it a try, but some recipes call for as little as 15 minutes in a water bath canner and other recipes say I need to use a pressure canner??? Also the vinegar to water ratio?? Some recipes say 2parts water to 1 part vinegar...

Ive been having a BLAST with dehydrating!!! I did the tomatoes outside as long as I could, but as soon as shade hit them so did the flies. I also did some pototoes and eggplant and the bugs couldnt have cared less about those 2. I did them outside as much as I could and then brought them inside...

I have yet to figure out any sort of "trap", but with a long handled plastic toy shovel we have been able to kill the majority of the moths that dare fly in my garden! It's taken a lot more time than a trap, but seems to be pretty affective so far. Now we are just hoping we got most of them...

My dehydrator has something wrong with it (I think) so I moved it all inside to the oven...kindof a bummer since its 100 degrees outside, the last thing I wanted was to have it heating inside. But oh well! I tried sundrying them and it went really great until a cloud would roll by...when the...

I actually have the tomatoes on window screen trays and I dont ahve any extra screening... I could go buy some, but I just hate spending money. But also I dont want to ruin all the tomatoes! :(

Also, can I dehydrate multiple things at a time? I have a huge dehydrator and dont want to run it if it isnt completely full. It is full with 16 lbs tomatoes and next I would like to try dehydrating potatoes and eggplant but I dont have a full load of each so can I combine the 2? Is that an ok idea?

I just put 8 trays of tomatoes into my dehydrator and I started wondering if it would be ok to lay them all out on the deck table in full sun (since its over 102 degrees today) and then as the sun goes down THEN pop them into the dehyrator for the remainder of time they need. I dont want to run...

What is blight? It is treatable?

Ive been trying to decide what to do with my front yard! We bought a bank forclosure about 2 years ago and had to completely remodel it...then we took on the backyard and got some chickens and goats and a large garden...now Im ready to tackle the front yard! ... but I am lost! We have had...

I had to tear out all my broccoli from cabbage worms and now the little annoying white moths are all over my garden trying to figure out where to land and take over next. We have been going out trying to catch and get rid of them, but no matter how many we kill they just keep multiplying...

We had some family in town and I didnt keep to my garden like I usually do and in just a few days my tomatoes have taken on some type of leaf disease. I dont know what it is so I dont know how to treat it. Any suggestions? Is it treatable? The plants are heirloom tomatoes (several different...

My freezer is cram packed right now...I even did my first try at canning spinach because I didnt have room for it in the freezer. I was a little nervous because Ive heard "greens" are the most "dangerous" to can, but I sanitized everything very well and followed all the steps exactly so it...

Excellent!! Thank you!! I love the clear cut steps that the last link gave :) But those first two sure did look yummy too :)

They are little pearl onions and so cute :) I've already done salsa and would love to have these cute little onions for some "appetizer onions".

I have a ton of small onions that I would love to can, but I just dont have a recipe that is ONLY for onions! I found a recipe for peppers that is with vinegar, salt, and garlic (pretty basic) and I would love to do something like that with my onions, but I just dont know what recipe to...

Thank you all so much for your advice. I do think It is their time to go, but I love the idea of replanting...ill check our first frost date and make sure I've got time! Thank you

My broccoli looked absolutely beautiful all season and right before it was time to pick, the bugs descended upon all my plants and it has been a fight to keep them alive. I used DE several different times and also me and the kids would go out there often and look for caterpillars and pick them...

I dont know if my bush beans are done producing and need to be pulled out or if they are having a disease problem that I need to address. We've got about 30 lb of beans already and the harvest is majorly tapering off, but someone told me it was just because of the heat and that if I just...

Thank you!!