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I did Cheyenne this year. I did them in the dehydrator and pulverized some in my food processor. Needless to say i still have two huge 5 gallon buckets that need ground to powder. I thought I my lungs were going to collapse when I took the lid off the processor. Good thing a little goes a long way.

I dry my herbs, I do the paper bag method and the dehydrator method. I use both because I'm too lazy to pull them out of the dehydrator right away. Basil grows so fast and if the dehydrator is full I cut them, tie them and put them in a paper bag to dry. Also I grow quite a few varieties and my...

I can see it now, maybe you can even get your SI to feed you some:gig

Wow, well no wonder my grapes died. I just dug a hole and planted them :/. Thanks for the links, I've got my first post set but we did not angle them at all. I wonder how important that is? I'd hate to pull all of those posts up, they are set in concrete I think. I am North in Marion County...

x2 My pressure canner will hold 14 quarts but it takes much longer. It takes time to heat it up, to pressure can and then to cool down before you open the lid. It also has a tendency to boil my tomato sauce based recipes out over the top of the lid. But I do use it for the items that I cannot...

This is the best news I've heard! I love beans but they double me over in pain, so I'm gonna try it, super easy too.

I have chickens and when the time comes I'll be canning broth too. I've heard the feet make super good stock so I'm looking forward to seeing how it comes out. Do you cook the beans before you can or do you let them cook while processing?

Mikey; wow that was just awesome to read! You've bitten me with the meat canning bug. My issue is with the cook time it takes to get my roasts tender. I just don't have the time to cook meals after working all day. Then on the weekends I want to have some down time. It seems like I'm never able...

Wonder how to baby them? They are on the bank of the small stream that runs North to south on the property, they are surrounded by grass. Should I trim around them and mulch? They are just shoots at this point, but there are quite a few. I guess the fruit dropped down into the bank area and just...

I live in WV too so according to your results my grapes should grow by leaps and bounds right?? ;) ha ha. Well your post does give me hope. I'm going to try my best and see what trellis system is good for my area.

So a few years ago DH and our family moved to his homestead. The old grapevine had seen better days and died off before I got to enjoy grapes. DH put 4 grape vine poles in the ground and I bought 4 plants. I did not know about trellising them and they pretty much died the first year. There are...

I do think it was the puree now that you say that. If I get any pumpkins this year I think I'll try that. I am so thankful for our root cellar. It has a potato bin that my hubby built when he was a kid. I don't remember what they said about potatoes but if I get a huge crop I'm grateful I know I...

I've read about not disturbing much of the grass in a large garden without beds too. They just turned up the soil a little and planted between the grass. They said that it helped with moisture by not disturbing much of the root system. That would be much easier to just run a mower down my rows...

That's actually a great idea, I have been saving my chicken feed bags to make recycled shopping bags but my sewing machine needs serviced. My bags don't have paper on the inside but I bet they will work ok too. I think with the newspaper and the feed bags I should have enough to cover most of...

I'm glad you told me about the mulch! I'd have had newspaper all over the yard ha ha. I've got probably three dump trucks full of mulch from the power company last year cutting back the trees in our area. DH had them dump the stuff in our driveway. I wish they could have gotten closer to my...

I've never tried canning potatoes, It scares me for some reason. I think I read something about canning potatoes and not to do it at home. Do you have to process for a long time? or add lemon juice or citric acid? I'm now wondering where I read that about canning potatoes. I also read that you...

Funny you should say that because I raised a goose with chickens and YES the chickens were honking more than clucking and they would go forage with the goose eating more grass than anything. haha

I did it last breeding season, with some success. It is hard to get a good hatch rate because of humidity. Misting duck eggs is recommended for a good hatch but not for chickens. The problem I ran into was the different hatch times, you will be raising the lid of the bator when one or the other...

I've almost tried it all, the black landscaping weed cloth, mulch, plastic, hand weeding and tilling. I cannot get my weeds under control. This year I want to try wet newspaper. I work full time, have lots of poultry and dogs and well too many other animals and all my time is taken up. I always...

I have a rock retaining wall that keeps our creek in check. It's a 12 ft wall that is approx 150 ft long, the creek usually only has 2 feet of water running through it (unless it's the wet season or we get large rains). I want to plant succulents all over the wall in the cracks. I will need a...