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    Pickled Beet Recipes

    Have you tried Mrs Wages for pickling. Like the sweet pickle one for my beets. ML
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    What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

    Great time to start your winter sowing. Out side inthe cold. I am In NJ and will be starting all my tomato seedlings soon as of 2/8 in milk jugs. Sure saves on the electric bill and no harding off. It is not to late to start those plants. Lettuce , tomatos poppies are great to the...
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    Where do you buy your seeds?

    Sevearl places I order from for my heirloom tomatos http://www.victoryseeds.com/ http://www.territorialseed.com/ https://growitalian.com/Qstore/Qstore.cgi http://rareseeds.com/ A new spot want to try http://www.dianeseeds.com/ I also winter sow and Trudi is very nice about sharing...
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    Egg carton/shell seed planting method

    Think empty milk jugs are much beter, you need 3 inchs of soil for most seedlings. Or ya got to transplant those sprouts asap. ML
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    What did you can (freeze, dehydrate, preserve) today?

    34 pints of black berry Jelly 2 quarts of black berry Jelly 6 pints of peach Jam 4 pints of blue berry Jam 3 pints of raspberry Jelly berry season is about done here. ML
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    What I've gathered from my garden recently! DUW. Seriously,lol.

    roflol nice harvest J.. and you get this plus eggs wow wee. ! ml
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    What are "fall crops" ?

    I am in zone 6 so planting Beets Turnips Spinach Swiss chard Rape seeds for the peeps Kale maybe will start some cole crops in the basement and some lettuce. ML
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    What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

    Working on a fall garden so planted ,for mostly the peeps Rape Turnips Spinach Beets need to start some of the collards too and Swiss chard asap ML
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    What to do with Cayenne Peppers

    from Pepper joes site "DRYING AND FREEZING TIPS Enjoy your hot peppers any time of the year. TO DRY: String hot peppers through stem with a sewing needle thread or fishing string. Then hang in a sunny window. That's it. Or easier still, just put hot peppers on a plate in a dry sunny location...
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    Movin the coop "ONE more time" I swear... (asparagus planting)

    Always done roots here for my asparagus bed. About the same time as you plant potatos plant the roots. It will take about 3 years from seed is my guess. Each year I plant more roots this year had a nice group at the same time to harvest. Here side dress the beds with horse manure...
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    What did you can (freeze, dehydrate, preserve) today?

    Went black berry picking on friday at a pick your own. 1.35 for a lb, sure beats the 3.50 a pint at the produce stand. Let me say love , love black berry jelly. So picked over 10 lbs of these lovely 1 to 2 inch size berries.They justopened up the thornless canes to be picked. It was...
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    Darn tomato eating critters!

    Did you really plant 300 of them? Egads! Whatever will you do with that many? Well...... I have a friend with a large farm, he is Italian and loves tomatos, so 250 are Roma's. Those are feeding the deer, ground hogs and his goats is all I can figure.:P I have going for sure in my garden...
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    Darn tomato eating critters!

    Shelly, long time no see. You must haunt Garden Web forums to have those tomato types. Just getting my Sun Golds now to ripen. Planted up to 300 seedlings this year via Winter Sowing them. Zone 6/7depends on the frosts. ML
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    Darn tomato eating critters!

    How dare it eat your Sun Gold tomatos! Who told the pest how wonderful they are. It must be very hard up to be eatting green Stupice. Found here if the lack of rain is around then the animals (deer) will hit up my tomatos and vines for a quick quench of thirst. So how many did you loose...
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    What in the world was in my bean?! *PICS*

    Jordan this may be the work of a bean beetle. Pictures of damage.. http://extension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/pests/g07150.htm A organic way to be rid of them http://www.gardenandhearth.com/OrganicVegetableGarden/Bean-Pests.htm Welcome to the world of garden pests. ML
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    What did you can (freeze, dehydrate, preserve) today?

    3 pints of peach jam whoa that was super tasting ML
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    Adventures in Canning (blackberry jelly)

    My favorite Jelly for sure. Lucky you to have those berries around to pick. ML
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    First time making Jam! 5 pics.

    Jordan YUMMM. Did 5 pints of Blue berry the same day. Really want to try the sugar free variety too. Did you do any sugar free ones or add and juice to them? How long did you process the water bath for them? ML
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    What Are You Planting Today, This Week, This Month?

    Planting away here but today is a major rain day. Painted Daisys Peppers Bell and Banana Tomatos Sun gold, Anna Russian, Kelloggs Breakfast Onions Day Lillies Dahlia tubers saved from last year In zone 6 so as it warms up will plant out more seeds. ML
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