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I plan on pressure canning tomatoes too, not using a water bath. Is there a downside to this? View Quote You need the Ball Blue Book. Pressure canning is about botulism spores. That's all. It does not provide any benefit to pressure can items that are not subject to the spores, or naturally kills the spores. For instance, would you ever consider pressure canning pickles? Nope. Why? Because the vinegar provides your safe medium for preservation. You just didn't realize it was the acid breaking down the botulism spores until you read this post. Spores are killed by acid environments. The acid (in tomatoes, and vinegar) dissolves their outer casing and kills the spore. Tomatoes are a high acid product and you are wasting time, and energy, to pressure can them. (just like pickles, it would not make any sense) Beans are low acid and there is a chance of botulism (from the environment, soil particles, handling, jar residue) in canned beans using only a water bath. Water bath (boiling water) kills any live botulism, but does NOT break down the walls of the spore. The higher temps of the pressure canning process does break down the walls of the spore when acid will not be present to do so. TRG |
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Uhhh.. The green kind . I bought a pack that was recommended at the co-op. I really don't recall. When more come in I will take a pic. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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What type of cukes did you plant? Uhhh.. The green kind . I bought a pack that was recommended at the co-op. I really don't recall. When more come in I will take a pic. My bush cucumbers took longer to produce than the vine. |
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Quoted: I found where the cukes were growing, just never looked on the fence. http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/c3ff55479c8f0b555ca6b5d13a9dc111_zpsf9953bbd.jpg got to start researching how to jar pickles and investigate recipes. View Quote My husband really likes this bread and butter pickle recipe from Iowa State pickling guide. For crunchy pickles, add Pickle Crisp to each pint. Yield: 4 to 5 pints 4 pounds pickling cucumbers Canning syrup 1 2/3 cups distilled white vinegar (4-6%) 1 tablespoon whole allspice 3 cups sugar 2 ¼ teaspoon celery seed Brine 1 quart distilled white vinegar (4-6%) 1 tablespoon mustard seed 1 tablespoon canning or pickling salt ½ cup sugar Wash cucumbers. Cut 1/16-inch off blossom end and discard. Cut cucumbers into ¼-inch slices. Combine all ingredients for syrup in a saucepan and heat to boiling; keep hot until used. In a large kettle, mix the ingredients for the brine; add the cut cucumbers, cover and simmer until the cucumbers change color from bright to dull green (about 5 to 7 minutes). Drain the cucumber slices. Fill pint jars with cucumber slices, and cover with hot canning syrup, leaving ½ inch headspace. Wipe jar rims. Adjust lids and process in boiling water canner for 10 minutes (15 if over 1,000 feet). |
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I found where the cukes were growing, just never looked on the fence. <a href="http://s109.photobucket.com/user/trip157/media/c3ff55479c8f0b555ca6b5d13a9dc111_zpsf9953bbd.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/c3ff55479c8f0b555ca6b5d13a9dc111_zpsf9953bbd.jpg</a> got to start researching how to jar pickles and investigate recipes. View Quote The quickest, simplest..easiest and most versatile recipes: Relish Chow-Chow Both are flexible: vinegar and 'hot pack' recipes/ingredients. Cucumber is not a flavor. It's a filler. You can use it in a 'cabbage' or 'apple' role. I have 'apple pie' jars in my cabinet made from cucumber and squash. TRG |
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Working on that now. Trying to go for it this weekend, around building the Taj Mahal of chicken coops (thanks to your suggestion earlier in this thread). Got to the homestead early today, and here is what the garden produced. Just got these put up, the pic is from the hot pack prior to the canning. They are finished now, and cooling on the table. Just heard all the lids snap down. Less than 2 hours from vine to the pressure cooker. Beans are rockstars this year. <a href="http://s109.photobucket.com/user/trip157/media/30a9d9f14da35d8a70294b08247c648d_zps64e260ad.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/30a9d9f14da35d8a70294b08247c648d_zps64e260ad.jpg</a> View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The quickest, simplest..easiest and most versatile recipes: Relish Chow-Chow Both are flexible: vinegar and 'hot pack' recipes/ingredients. Cucumber is not a flavor. It's a filler. You can use it in a 'cabbage' or 'apple' role. I have 'apple pie' jars in my cabinet made from cucumber and squash. TRG Working on that now. Trying to go for it this weekend, around building the Taj Mahal of chicken coops (thanks to your suggestion earlier in this thread). Got to the homestead early today, and here is what the garden produced. Just got these put up, the pic is from the hot pack prior to the canning. They are finished now, and cooling on the table. Just heard all the lids snap down. Less than 2 hours from vine to the pressure cooker. Beans are rockstars this year. <a href="http://s109.photobucket.com/user/trip157/media/30a9d9f14da35d8a70294b08247c648d_zps64e260ad.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/30a9d9f14da35d8a70294b08247c648d_zps64e260ad.jpg</a> Nice. |
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Looking good! You need to try this recipe for pickled squash, it's awesome and really easy.
Squash Pickles 10 cups sliced squash 1 large jar chopped pimento 2 cups sliced bell pepper 3 large sliced onions Hot peppers to taste Soak squash in 3 quarts water with 1/2 cup salt for 1 hour. Pour off brine and drain. Squeeze moisture from squash. Syrup: 3 cups sugar 2 Tablespoons celery seed 2 Tablespoons mustard seed 2 1/2 cups white vinegar Bring syrup to boil. Stir as you drop vegetables into syrup. Bring to boil again. Do not over cook. Seal in hot sterilized jars. |
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"Beans are rockstars"...
Beans are awesome SHTF garden items. You can eat them fresh. Can them. Dry them. If you want to store them as dry beans, you can pick the mature pods and just leave them in a place with good air flow and sunlight. Once the pods are dry and crumbly, just use a large bowl to open the pods. Pick out the large pods, and use the wind to winnow the smaller pieces. Using the wind to winnow a dried bean goes back thousands and thousands of years. It's a deeply satisfying moment when you do it with a bean that you planted, harvested, dried and winnowed yourself. TRG |
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I just got through canning 14 quarts and 18 pints of the beans. I will have to post a pic of these big bastards tomorrow. Some are 8-10 inches in length. I also took a page out of TRG PLAYBOOK. I was cruising craigslist looking for whores and scored a like new pto auger with bit, a wood lathe on a hand built bench with knives, a complete two tank cutting torch rig with gloves and mask. I also got over 100lbs of chain, sledges, wedges and all kinds of other stuff for the kingly sum of 400 dollars. May go pick up a 6ft bush hog brand cutter tomorrow and disk for 450 if I don't go to an auction. I'll try to post pics if I can get some help unloading my truck. |
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From yesterday http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/8da51dae1808dc8e8aae1f9edfcf088a_zps5a9888d1.jpg In the shop working on another bushel right now. Today the wife and daughter Went to auction with me and we picked up a 72" hd tiller, propelled rear tine tiller, stihl hedge trimmer, weed eater and 3 sprayers. <a href="http://s109.photobucket.com/user/trip157/media/5b7a8a77926f7d0bfd5eb46496a403a4_zps9143f3df.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/5b7a8a77926f7d0bfd5eb46496a403a4_zps9143f3df.jpg</a> http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/64dc3300be04ec6678b40ce4766c1a8d_zps1533e1b4.jpg http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/2e4d6b75500611a6eaea5271ab7af718_zps506dc1fb.jpg All for around a grand. Comparable tillers retail close to 3 k. Was a good day View Quote Fuck yeah... That's a good day right there. Glad my playbook played well for you. TRG |
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That 72" tiller, alone, was more than enough to pay for everything else. Is your tractor big enough for 72" I thought it was 8 HP per foot for PTO for tillers?
You won't need/want a disc now. Sell it and put that money back in your pocket. Only in rare cases do you need both. TRG |
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Tile cutter I think.
that tiller is going to spoil you... TRG |
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Y'all are good. It is an old asbestos tile cutter for siding, or so I was told. I plan on sandblasting it and painting it gloss black and mounting somewhere as a conversation piece.
Just got through with the beans. Grand total is 37 quarts and 49 pints. That's enough beans for this year. But I am doing a second planting. My canner will not do 14 qts, but i can do 7 qts and 9 pts in one cooking. I did it this way for efficiency and to maximize fuel use. |
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"Beans are rockstars"... Beans are awesome SHTF garden items. You can eat them fresh. Can them. Dry them. If you want to store them as dry beans, you can pick the mature pods and just leave them in a place with good air flow and sunlight. Once the pods are dry and crumbly, just use a large bowl to open the pods. Pick out the large pods, and use the wind to winnow the smaller pieces. Using the wind to winnow a dried bean goes back thousands and thousands of years. It's a deeply satisfying moment when you do it with a bean that you planted, harvested, dried and winnowed yourself. TRG View Quote Not to mention that while they're growing, the plants are pumping nitrogen into the soil, instead of pulling it out like most garden plants do. |
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Excellent work. In regards to the section that is ropes off with a cable: I know that is not of high priority, but it would be quite simple to cut/disengage the cable. If you do not use that are for vehicle access, I suggest putting a few large rocks every two feet or so to make sure nothing could easily get through there. We started using rocks for numerous anti-punk contraptions. We've put them on unused access roads, next to mailboxes to prevent them from being ran over, etc.
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Sometimes there is just not enough rocks. If I had some big ones that would be a great idea. Thought about dragging a log across it also. Here are the no trespassing signs: Wife's choice. Happy wife, happy life. http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/04213c2cd0d22d1bf95d539ca162e44f_zpsb22f3938.jpg Here is mine, seems fitting to be next to the bronze of Jean Lafitte. This was originally slated to go on the gate. Think I'm gonna lag bolt it to a tree so the wife can't get it off. http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/1b7857d0e6d19b79ec045d52b1de8344_zpsbf1d066a.jpg View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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, I suggest putting a few large rocks every two feet or so to make sure nothing could easily get through there. . Sometimes there is just not enough rocks. If I had some big ones that would be a great idea. Thought about dragging a log across it also. Here are the no trespassing signs: Wife's choice. Happy wife, happy life. http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/04213c2cd0d22d1bf95d539ca162e44f_zpsb22f3938.jpg Here is mine, seems fitting to be next to the bronze of Jean Lafitte. This was originally slated to go on the gate. Think I'm gonna lag bolt it to a tree so the wife can't get it off. http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n45/trip157/1b7857d0e6d19b79ec045d52b1de8344_zpsbf1d066a.jpg I like yours |
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Still waiting for that delivery of leftover 6x6s for my bed project.
I've used 6x6 posts before and I am a fan, but, they do like to twist and bend with the sun. For un braced tops (like fence posts) I prefer 6 or 8" round posts. I am curious to see how well yours work with them as posts. I do like your coop. Overbuilt, Tornado proof. TRG |
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Looking good! Where did you pick up that sign?
Can't beat those T25 drive screws for building stuff. I like them much better than the square drive ones. |
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Looking good! Where did you pick up that sign? Can't beat those T25 drive screws for building stuff. I like them much better than the square drive ones. View Quote Yep, those fasteners work well. Which sign? The fancy ones, I ordered from www.mysecuritysign.com and the skull & bones was ordered from www.compliancesigns.com The fancy ones were 25 bucks and the bones was 20 dollars. I really did not need to spend the coin on those, but when I told her I was putting a skull on the gate, I got the look. |
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Quoted: Which sign? The fancy ones, I ordered from www.mysecuritysign.com and the skull & bones was ordered from www.compliancesigns.com The fancy ones were 25 bucks and the bones was 20 dollars. View Quote You can probably guess which one I like the best, and which one I'll end up buying! I actually have a short gravel road to my shop that takes up where a city street dead ends and leads onto my property. It isn't clearly marked as a private drive, and I have been thinking of putting up some signs to that effect because people will occasionally drive up to my shop and turn around. Or perhaps some concertina wire? |
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One point for the future, never use untreated wood, even for those parts that are not in soil contact. It doesn't add much to the costs, and you gain the versatility of using the wood, and the drop, in any way you choose.
Any water that does slip past a screw, or nail, or shingle will not result in a black rot. TRG |
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