On Sat, 17 May 2008 18:17:34 -0600, "The Joneses"
wrote:


"George Shirley" wrote in message
.. .
KW wrote:

Welcome to our insane world Mark!

Keith

BTW all, my garden is in and everything is going well this season (no
late April freezes like last year)

Menu for the season:

Established plantings
Apples (5 varieties - 9 trees)
Peaches
Plums
Cherries (2 trees)
Blueberries (12 bushes)
Blackberries (1 jumbo thornless, 1 crimson and a heap of wild bushes
Wild Strawberries are back with a vengence this year!!!!! :-)
Rosemary

Seasonal plantings
Tomatoes (7 varieties - just 26 plants total this year)
Watermelon (2 varieties)
Canteloupe (2 varieties)
Cucumbers (2 varieties)
Bell Pepper (Red & Yellow)
Jalepeno Pepper (Jumbo & Regular)
Zuchinni Squash
Crookneck Squash
Sunflowers
Red Okra
Crowder Peas
Pinkeye Purplehull Peas
Sweet Basil
Cilantro
I will agree with your assessment, you are definitely either insane or
completely hooked on home preserving.

Here's ours:

2 plum trees, 1 peach tree, 1 quince, one row of Triple Crown thornless
blackberries, four blueberry plants, one Japanese persimmon, one Ponderosa
lemon, two kumquat trees. 17X24 main vegetable garden that is planted
chock-a-block with green beans, 3 different tomato varieties totaling 6
plants, crowder peas, carrots, Ichiban eggplant, okra just went in, two
different types of sweet chiles, no hot ones this year.

Waal - not quite insane, but definitely a trifle goofy, suh, a trifle
goofy!
On that *pressure canner*, think about what size jars you'll be using -
that
is if planning on putting up green beans by the quart for your household of
ten, you will need a canner tall enough to accomodate them. My first
*bwb canner* pot was too short for quart jars AND the water for over, not
tall
enough for double rack of pints either. And who needs pickles in them
teeny-weeny jars? Was a more work putting through double batches of
things, esp., if the harvest was warm!
Do read our FAQ regarding the "steam canners" that are still for sale at
the
Sprawl-Mart and other places. We can't prove they are safe, so we don't
use them.
And oncet you get started agin, there'll be no stoppin' y'all. It's the
fumes,
suh, the fumes....
I got
4 strawberry plants, and it'll never be enough,
2 different variety blueberries (wish I had some Nacodoches Texas
blueberries, more for our climate)
2 Marion Blackberry, thorns & all (whoops, did I make a mistake or
what?)
Lots of tomatoes & peppers my sister planted. Wished she'd labled
them. I sware both veggies may come up in several different colors.
Will need more Aji de Limon de Peru seeds, Jorge, last year I
neglected them and they died.
Oh well, here's a nice surprise in my garden. Glommed onto 4 rose
geranium plants, p.graveolens, I think, 4 coffees, and of course, all the
herbs.
PING BARB, I'm fixing to mix up a batch of pickling spice - herbs
from my garden & spices from Penzey's, y'all want a bag?
Edrena



How about sharing your recipe for the pickling spice.
--
Susan N.

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