Tomato worms, also known as tomato hornworms are not guests you want in your garden. They are 3-4 inches long, green, and fat, with a distinctive horn on the back end. Here are two signs to look for to know if you have tomato worms on your tomato plants. Keep preparing! Angela *************************************************************** Subscribe to […]
Using and Cooking With Dehydrated Green Beans
So after learning how easy it is to dehydrate green beans, you now have a jar or two or five of dehydrated green beans. As lovely as they are, they really shouldn’t be put on the shelf just to be looked at. Even if you’re saving them for an emergency and not planning on rotating […]
Dehydrating Green Beans
Green beans are the garden gift that keeps on giving. If you can keep up with the picking about 1-2 times per week, green beans will just keep on making beans until they freeze. What to do with all those green beans? One of my favorite methods of preserving green beans is dehydrating. The main […]
Preparedness Quick Tip: Dehydrating Frozen Vegetables
Did you know you can dehydrate frozen vegetables right out of the bag? Frozen veggies are one of the easiest things to dehydrate as the blanching prep work has already been done for you before they were frozen. Just open the bag of frozen vegetables and empty it onto your dehydrator trays. If the veggies […]
Cutting Corn Off The Cob the Easy Way
Here’s an easy way to cut corn off the cob for freezing, bottling, or dehydrating. Power tools involved! I think you guys will especially enjoy this one. In the past we’ve used a knife to get our blanched corn cut off the cob. It works pretty well although the straight knife cutting on the round […]
Dehydrated Carrots Update
Late last fall (about mid-November) I dehydrated some carrots. My dehydrating book said you could steam blanch them before dehydrating or you could dehydrate them raw. So I did some of each. If you want to read the whole post, go here: Dehydrating carrots. Now it’s been 10 months and the carrots have been stored […]
Celery–Free Plants to Grow
Guest Post from Linda at Practical Parsimony. Thank you, Linda–I’m going to have to try this! April 8, 2011–celery on day ten at 4 inches No, I do not like to buy celery. It is rather over-priced in my opinion. As long as I can grow even what I have in the last ten days, cheaply, I […]
Saving Seeds: Radish
If you have an heirloom garden going with non-hybrid seeds, usually the point of going through the extra trouble of getting the non-hybrid varieties is so that you can save seed from your plants to plant again the following spring. Right? Saving seeds is not always as easy as it sounds, with some plants being […]
Dehydrated Baby Food: Sweet Potato, Pumpkin, Squash
Last week I had some leftover pumpkin from making a pumpkin roll and just happened to have sweet potatoes left over from Christmas dinner at the same time, so I pulled some frozen “squash” out of the freezer (why I labeled it with only “squash” and not the variety, I do not know) and let […]
Bottling or Home Canning Carrots
Home canning carrots is pretty easy. Really. I know I say that about most things, but believe me, I’d let you know if something wasn’t worth your time. Like the pickled hot peppers. Totally not worth my time, but hey, if you still want to bottle hot peppers, at least I warned you. But I […]