A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Landscape trials and triumphs What did you do in the garden today? #10

Haha, I was about to say, PA to OR isn't too close at all :P

If I hadn't have just eaten at the buffet with my family, all of this talk about beets would be getting me hungry... lol

Your amusing Carol,
I can pickled beets, Stewed tomatoes, Relish, and different types of pickles.
I freeze grape juice, strawberrys, blue berrys,carrots, beans , peas.

I make my jam an jelly from frozen fruit. made grape the other nite. I froze peaches an apples too for pies an an apple sauce an whatever...Love apples
Lots of blossoms this spring that didn't freeze so I am hoping lots of apples. Sis an I love sauce an pies

Hi ya James......

Amazing world of computers, we can talk tho huh?
Last week I got instructions of how to put the Oven element in my Electric stove.
I looked it up online an did it. I was so tickled , I baked 5 pies..LOL an froze most of them. We are a sharing bunch in Pa.

Life on the farm is rugged but fun.
dodge

when the kids were home, I froze apples & peaches for pies,(I would make the filling & freeze it in portions for 1 pie each.)
I made & froze applesauce (I think Lodi apples are the best for that.)
I would get fresh corn on the cob, blanch & cut it off & freeze enough for 1 meal in freezer seal-a-meal bags.
I measured (in a 14 oz can) & froze tomatoes for cooking, and zucchini for casseroles.
I also made sweet breads when items like zucchini were in season, and froze them. (I also liked to do this with Amish friendship starter. And then I could pull out one when we needed/wanted them. That was esp. great when there was an unexpected death & I wanted to take the Family something
I would make jam when I had blackberries come into season, and then as we didnt go thru it very fast,
I would also take blackberries, make juice, & freeze enough in each container to make seperate batches of blackberry jam fresh. So we had the makings whenever we ran out.
I would also freeze any extra blackberries loose on cookie sheets, then transfer them to freezer bags frozen so I could take out what I wanted any time I wanted just to eat or use in a recipe.

But now with just the 2 of us, I don't do as much of that, plus we moved into town & no longer have access to our wonderful fruit.

I planted 4 peppers I ppurchased in am

Good Luck with the pepper plants, Barb--I have no idea what I do but I in all the years I have tried to grow them, I have only actually gotten peppers a few times....

Carol
That is strange?
Never had a problem before. My seeds would not germinate this time an I had to buy, first time in a long while.

I use them in my relish an stew tomatos.. Other than that I don't eat peoppers

Mmmm, I love peppers! Generally I prefer sweet peppers to hot peppers, but I can handle myself some heat hehe :).

My favorite food cart has two hot sauces, one is called the "Ginger Rage" sauce, it's the hottest sauce I've ever had, but then again I had enough for 3 sandwiches on one sandwich lol... The other is a really tasty habanero sauce.

Whoa you are hotstuff lover.
Hot peppers actually burn my fingers an lips to touch.. Cant eat barbq stuff at all. Guess allergys.

Sounds like you're allergic to Capsaicin