KW wrote:
"George Shirley" wrote in message
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Puester wrote:
George Shirley wrote:
Bought a new pick-em-up truck today, now I can start hitting the
spring garage and church sales next month scouting for jars and jar
lifters.

Got a good deal on a new, 2007 Dodge Dakota Club Cab truck with auto
and V6 engine so we went for the deal.

OB: preserving, pureed about two quarts of kumquats yesterday and
froze it in containers for later use. So far we've put up 16 pints of
kumquat marmalade and only have about a half bushel left to do. Still
juicing out lemons every other day or so and freezing the juice in ice
cube trays and bagging for later use in lemonade, iced tea, and just
very good in plain water.

George

Woohoo! Congratulations on both the truck and the kumquats.

I have seen the latter in the supermarket this week for $6.99/lb.
Picking them off your own trees sure beats that!

gloria p
And down here you can't hardly give them away, everyone in town has a
tree of their own. Citrus grows really well in our area, we have friends
who give us oranges, satsumas, grapefruit, etc. all the time as they are
overloaded with fruit. I take meds that grapefruit in any form
interferes with so can't eat that citrus and it has always been a
favorite.
I've been scouting for apples that will grow well here, and there are
several available. I just don't have the space for a pair of trees.

One of these days I will move one zone farther north and be able to grow
apples.

George

Atmore. AL is ~ halfway between your house and mine, we could meet up there
twice a year (since the seasons don't coincide well) to swap lies and trade
apples for citrus :-)


Not a bad idea. Either that or we get a crowd up to come this far south
in the bad days of freeze and snow and we all do some swapping of lies
and trading of whatever we have.

I'm a fair cook on Cajun and Mexican food as Barb can attest if she's
not still burping from last year. VBG

George