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That sounds delicious! How much butter are we talking about using for this?

I can't believe that I'm still getting tomatoes and green peppers from my organic vegetable garden here in Virginia! I got 3 and 1/4 pounds of tomatoes with 9 tomatoes and almost six pounds of green peppers with 60 peppers this week! We've had three successive heavy frosts, so I'm sure the...

Does anyone have experience/suggestions they would like to share concerning the use of row covers for protecting veggies such as broccoli, lettuce, collards and Swiss chard from the weight and or cold from 2 to 3 inches of snow when the ground doesn't freeze hard? These veggies will tolerate the...

The recipe says to add water to prevent sticking, but I use apple juice with no added sugar. I like the crock pot idea. Even if I used two of them at once, it sure would be better than all that stirring. That gets old quick! Thanks for the suggestion. Jared77, that apple cider would be a richer...

Here's one that I use for absolutely delicious relish. Even though I use the word relish, it's so good that I have made a sandwich of it with nothing else. You can eat a spoonful of it and your taste buds will just LOVE it! I try to make it every year. I used an old hurdy-gurdy grinder that...

I was successful in my apple quest! I picked up two more bushels of Staymans on Saturday. By the end of this week, I'll have a year's worth of homemade applesauce (with no added sugar) all canned and stored up. Now I have to work on additional shelving!!!

When cooking applesauce, you can't walk away, even with the heat on low because it will stick and then burn in the bottom of the pot. Been there, done that last year. Experience is a great teacher! On a gas range using a thin-walled stainless steel stock pot, I had to stir, wait less than a...

I was looking for good apples to make applesauce with. I bought a bushel of Stayman apples because the Farmer said that people were coming back to her saying that those apples made the best applesauce ever! They were right! I made 8 quarts of cinamon applesauce with no added sugar, and it tastes...

I agree with Lesa on saving seeds for any major event that will/can take place. Save your own. I have started to store my own seeds so that I know what I actually have that will grow well in my soil. Saving seeds every year or two isn't a hard thing to do. I consider myself to be prepared for...

Since May, I've planted three types of cucumbers in succession after the previous ones died, and all the plants vined up, flowered, then died. I've had tremendous cuc harvests in the past years, but not this year. Not a single cucumber. Anyone else had unusual problems with cucumbers this year?

Thanks for the reply! I appreciate your help.

Although I forgot the lemon juice, I did use at least two to three tablespoons of Fruit Fresh in the mixture (8 cups). I wonder if I should refrigerate the preserves or if they will be okay on the pantry shelf. Ascorbic acid/Vitamin C is what the Fruit Fresh is, so shouldn't it be safe on the...

I just bought 14 pounds of them a couple days ago for $1.89 a pound from a local farm stand. You did well!

The "furrow" is the term I used in the video. When plants are small, I use the hose at one end of it and let the water gently run to the other end of the furrow. As soon as it reaches the end, I shut the water off because as it flows to the far end, it is being absorbed by the ground...

Dawn, You are certainly welcome! The way I look at it, someone showed and shared information with me, so I try to do the same thing for others. I certainly don't know everything there is to know about the subject, but I'm willing to share what I do know by experience or otherwise. I think the...

When you had your soil analysis, did they tell you how many pounds of each fertilizer you needed to add to bring it up into the neutral Ph range or did they just give you a readout? Now that you have had a successful year, I would do a soil test again to fine tune it, and anything that you...

Starbucks seems to be changing their interest level in gardeners using the coffee grounds, at least around here. Downtown Starbucks used to have a waste basket with plastic garbage bags of coffee grounds in it. They have since stopped that practice and now you have to ask for them because enough...

I like to keep an eye out for fruits on city property that I can forage from. Last year, I went to the co-operative extension office and picked the crabapples from their trees to make crabapple jelly. They said that I was the first one to ever do that at their office location. I self-appointed...

The way I reduce the water when making tomato sauce is to gently squeeze each tomato after you've removed the skin. The amount of water that will come out is amazing! Let me put it this way: Before when I peeled the tomatoes and put them in a pot, they looked like chunky tomato soup and sought...

I've made a mild salsa using packaged spices from Mrs. Wages. It turned out great! I don't like things too hot, so this was just right. All my family enjoys it! The packages/envelopes are found by the canning supplies in the big box stores.