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The zucchini relish recipe is not in the book I thought it was in. I'll have to research further. I go through this every year :lol: I have several books with good pickling recipes and I go through them all, trying to find the one I'm thinking of :rolleyes: :lol:

We have been making wreaths for years also. I have often used dried lavender in my wreaths. As well as other dried material.

Greenthumb18, That sounds good too. Considering how fast some of those zucchini get huge, it would be a great way to use them. I can still give the rest of it to the chickens. The relish recipe pretty much calls for the whole zuke to be cut up real small, the same as you would any other vegie...

I have a unique last name and there is some notoriety attached to it. So I always have to be carefull. One gets a little tired of watching out for looky-loos. There are times when I don't mind or even go out of my way to let people know who I am, but living in a fish bowl is no fun. Take my word...

What area do you live in. The weather sure has a lot to do with how well cukes will grow. We lost all of our pickling cukes last year, because it got so hot, the roots got literally cooked in the ground. We have found that lemon cukes withstand more climatic adversities. And they don't turn...

big brown horse I am sooo glad you posted about this subject. I have loads of lavender, and don't know what to do with it all. I am going out right now and will pick it and make some salt. :weee I think it will make great gifts along with some recipes gleaned from this thread. Put it in a nice...

Considering that we are constantly fighting them back, I am sure you will be successful. They root wherever they touch the ground. So you might be able to find some short ones that have started to root, in order to improve your success rate.

Hi all. I just googled my real name and my name came up in association with this forum. It also gave my user name. I prefer to remain anonimous and would appreciate it if my real name could be removed from anything that could show up on places like Google. I also belong to BYC and SS. My name...

Can never get enough poop for the garden. The main reason we have a bunny (besides him being cute and cudly) is for the poop! I've been known to go to other people houses and beg them for theirs and bring it home. :watering And definitely no dog or cat poop. yech

FarmerDenise here, there and everywhere from BYC. :tools

When I cut off a head of cabbage in the garden, the remaining stalk will send up new shoots. The new shoots will flower. These are there to replace the one that was cut, for the plants sole purpose in life is to reproduce. If you left a cabbage alone it would eventually sprout a flower stalk...

We let ours run along the ground last summer. Our summers are dry, so they didn't rot. But a frost hit before they had started turning color and after that most of them rotted. The growth habbit is about the same as cucumbers or pumkins. Once they are very dry you remove the skin, then you...

Here is one I grew up with and love. Ingredients: Kale Potatoes Smokey Sausage links Garlic Fill a pot up with chopped up kale, cook until tender Fill another pot up with cut up potatoes, cook until tender. About equal parts of both. Drain both, reserving about 1/2 of the potato liquid...

Thanks for responding to my question. I am going to keep looking for a pressure canner, in the meantime I'll continue to can what I can using the hot water bath method. We also dry a lot of our stuff. I just wish I could can stuff like beans, corn and meat, that is why I want a pressure canner...

The garlic should be fine close to the fence. We've been growing garlic for many, many years, we have it coming up all over the place. Garlic is a daylight sensitive plant and will be ready to harvest near the longest day. It is a good idea to remove the flower stalk that may come up in the...

We are very busy. We are cleaning up spent sunflower stalks, piling them up for shredding another time, bundled up the cornstalks to be used for feed by the neighbor's goats. Harvested the broomcorn and flax this week. Our tomatoes, peppers, zucchini and basil is still going strong. I'll be...

I want to buy a pressure canner and I would like to know what your experience is with the one you have. Please include what brand and size and any other pertinent information you want to share. I know my mom and grandma used the hot water bath canner for everything, but I'm not comfortable with...

We don't bother cooking it first, we just freeze the pretty ones on the cob and the rest we cut off and freeze in one cup batches. Sometimes I freeze them on a cookie sheet first and then put them in bags. We have a food saver and it sucks out the air and seals the bag. I think that makes a big...

I hope someone has a better solution also. I found it helps to do all that hosing and scrubbing right after digging them up, but it still is a lot of hard work, especially when the carrots are crooked or split.

I pickle my banana peppers. You can add a hot pepper to them to make them spicy.