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Boysen berries have thorns. The other berry patch I planted are everbearring strawberries. They filled the freezer with strawberries with a lot less work. You have to net them though or the jays will take every single one.

Last year I planted a row of Boysenberries. They are part Blackberry, part Raspberry and part Marion berry. They are trellised on 2 wires. You let the first year canes grow, they don't make berries and you wind them on the first wire of the trellis. The second year they bear and you wind those...

I'm adding a 40 plant table grape vineyard. I've got 7 varieties, I grew them from cuttings last year. Have to build trellises. After all that work I will certainly be cranky

I left them all on the ranch in Texas. Corral panels to keep out the cattle, hog panels to keep out the ferals and chicken wire to keep out the rabbits. I brought that cement lantern to Oregon.

I grew pepperoncinis this year and pickled them. Does the slime rehydrate? :) Yes the dehydrated tomatoes are like sun dried tomatos. I peeled them first making a slice in the skin on the bottom then dipping the batch in boilig water, then cold. The skin comes right off. Then slice about 1/2"...

Trvlr, if your apricots are crunchy I think you might be over drying them. I only have experience in Italian plums halves which are similar to apricots. You want then to not be sticky any more but still somewhat flexible. You cool them then put them in sealed jars for a few days out where you...

Those roll ups must be loaded with nutrients.

The more it shrinks the more you can store. Store bought is soft that was because of added sulfer. Just put a little boiling water on those things and they swell and soften right up

My husband gave me a big new Magic Mill food dehydrator. It has 9 shelves. New jar lids and bands are just too ridiculously expensive so I'm drying the garden produce this year. So far I've dried apple slices, pears, Italian plums and tomatos. It is surprising how good dried tomato slices are...

Latest update on my 'hairloom' tomato experiment in Oregon. It is mid August. The "Lemon Boy" hairlooms turned out to be some kind of red paste plum tomato. Totally bland, feeding them to the chickens. Amazon gave my $ back for the seeds. Soldaki, Polish hairloom, have good flavor but...

Coachg, where do you all get self rising cown meal? I never heard of it. The cornbread recipe on the bag is 1 cup corn meal with 1 cup all purpose flour, 4 Ts baking powder, some sugar plus eggs, oil and milk.

Mexican cornbread recipe please.

These hairlooms for me quit flowering just like determinants and are late season ripeners. In Oregon this doesn't work too well. I wish I had some actual fresh Earlygirls. The EG hybrids I grew last year still have a freezer and canning closet full. Great balance of sweet, tart and tomato y ness.

Ground hogs make good eating I hear. The problem I had (one of the problems) is people selling seeds that are not the variety advertized. These open pollinated 'hairlooms'-- well, something else must have been pollinating. The one that bred true, Cherokee Purple, the tomtos are deformed looking...

My rancher husband does not like grass fed beef. It's the grassy taste. Grain fed is better. He used to buy pens of 40 steers and put them in feed yards. Sometimes made a lot of money, sometimes less. Then Opra said on TV red meat is poison. That was not a good time. At certain times of the...

Glutin free bread tastes like it's made of saw dust.

Johnnys Seeds-- did she grow heirlooms? I just wrote 1 star reviews on Amazon for all the 'hairlooms' I tried to grow this year, with photos. Lemon Boy- supposed to be a big round bright yellow tomato. Its a red plum tomato of some kind, nearly tasteless. Great White- supposed to be a great...

I have always for years raised they hybrids Early Girl and Better Boy. Disease resitance, heavy production and great flavor. I always snubbed hairlooms because of all the yuppies raving about them on the internet. Because I am not paying $4+ a plant this year I tried a variety of 'hairlooms"...

Well, I finally got to taste some of these 'hairloom' tomatos. Granted it has been a weird weather year. The Cherokee Purples finally ripened a few small distorted brownish tomatos. The flavor was mildly sweetish/ bland. No Early Girls yet. They are certainly not early although I started those...