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Hello! It's been a busy summer, and I've been away from my computer for most of it. As stated above, I would like to know how to keep my cauliflower from turning brown when I freeze it. It looks good when I pick it, OK when I blanch it, and then turns kind of a light golden brown when I freeze...

I wasn't sure if I should post here or on BYC, but I thought I'd try here first. You mentioned canning chicken broth, cooking it with various spices, etc. Do you leave the spices in the broth when you can it? Everything I've read says to strain them out, but I don't know why. Is it just for a...

Has anyone here canned potatoes? My red potatoes that we harvested this fall are starting to sprout and get a tad soft, so I have peeled and diced them tonight and plan on canning them tomorrow after work. For those of you that have tried this, how did they turn out? Did you like the flavor and...

After two nights of killing frost, we decided to dig up the sweet potatoes. They turned out fairly well, I think, considering I had no idea what I was doing when I planted them. We ended up with about 2 dozen of them out of 6 plants. They started out well, but then my squash overtook their spot...

With the abundance of tomatoes I have in my garden, I'm thinking I'd like to make some spaghetti sauce and some chili base (mild - my DH has a wimpy gut). I could just buy the packets at the grocery store, and that's certainly an option, but I thought I'd check here first. I canned 23 pints of...

What do I do with them after I harvest them? They're ready to go - the tops are all dead. This is the first year we've had any onions to do anything with. Big, white ones - mostly baseball to softball size. In the past, they've been puny. Not even golf ball sized. I have dehydrated them in the...

This year has been an amazing one for gardening! I don't know if it was the early (and frequent) spring rains, the old, "cured", 20-year old manure that DH took out of the pole barn and tilled in, or what. But it's been an adventure! I planted several different types of tomatoes out there, and...

I have some beautiful potatoes growing... in my compost bin (a plastic stock tank with a hole melted in the middle of it thanks to the horse that likes to play with the tank heater). For some reason, though, the idea of eating potatoes grown in rotting vegetation does not sound appealing...

We finally got some warm weather and it finally dried out enough to work in the garden, so we finally got the garden planted this weekend! Growing in our garden this year is: strawberries, 3 kinds of squash, watermelons, gourds, sweet potatoes, tomatoes (LOTS of tomatoes), two kinds of lettuce...

It's March 1st, and the HIGH today was -4*. There is talk that the frost is anywhere from 6'-8' feet deep. I just bought a bunch of seed packets yesterday out of desperation for anything resembling spring. My thought is to start the tomatoes, peppers, broccoli and watermelon here in the house...

I was promised some garlic back in Sept. by a local grower (we baled some straw for them to use on their garlic), but haven't gotten any yet. So, I bought some at the local food co-op and plan on planting it today or tomorrow. Probably tomorrow since I just saw something online that I have to...

As I was weeding the potato patch the other day, I gently felt around a few potato plants and found some nice-sized new potatoes. So I "robbed" the plant by just picking the potatoes that were there and left the plant alone. I don't think it was disruptive to the plant, but DH thinks I may have...

I have planted two batches of tomatoes so far. Twenty the first time, and within a couple of days half of them were gone. Just... gone. It was very windy, and I think they got nipped off and blew away. So, I planted 15 more. Went out a day or so later, and found more of my tomatoes with the...