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I want a chicken soup with vegetables that I can open up the jar and pour over cooked rice, potatoes, or noodles. I don't want to put potatoes or noodles in the jars because they can get real mushy. I've heard not to ever can rice. So just a basic soup that I can heat and serve. I also plan on...

I have a pressure canner. I've had it for a few months now and just got brave enough to test it out this weekend. I made bean and bacon soup and canned it up. Worked perfectly!!! It's a presto model # 107800. It did not come with instructions but I found instructions for a model #107801, which...

Okay, I just don't have anyone else to ask. I have a freezer full of chicken. I want to make a chicken soup "base" and can it. So when I open a jar I can add cooked noodles, rice, barley, or potatoes. Other than carrots, onions and celery what else would you recommend? Thanks, Melissa

We've always had skunk problems, but this juvenile had made it's home underneath my home. The smell on the day's it fought with bigger skunks was unreal. Then my poor 9 year old would be teased mercilessly at school because the smell will linger for days. One day I had to leave my purse in my...

Just an update. When I got home my neighbor shot the resident skunk. We've had rabies in our area and it was acting funny. It was a little one, probably a juvenile. I felt really sorry for it, but at least we can walk outside at dusk now and not worry too much. All my animals just had their...

I just put some tomato seeds my great Aunt Ruth gave me before she died 2 years ago and they sprouted. I still have the little envelope they were bought in. They were marketed for 1998. All of them germinated and I have 2" sprouts that are putting on their 2nd set of leaves now. We keep our seed...

Well Ridgerunner you answered my question, not rows. So I would till up a patch and just throw the corn out and cover it? Not too worried about this year saving seed. I want to figure out which corn grew best, then I would only grow one kind next year. I understand that whichever I choose to...

This particular plot has my horse pasture on one side with a German Shepherd and goat field on the other with a Great Pyrenees. I don't have much of a wildlife problem anymore other than skunks. Skunks are a total menace on my property. You have to be very careful at dusk in particular. They...

This year on my section that is roughly 20 ft x 60 ft I want to plant corn. I've only ever planted silver queen in rows. I was thinking about planting corn for the animals. I know it won't be enough to feed them all winter, but every little bit helps. I was also wanting to use the "three...

When I put my little asparagus bed in last year I too had little to no information on how to tend them. Plenty of info on harvesting, planting, cooking etc, but no info on maintaining. What I did figure out on my own is that in the fall when the ferns die back and turn brown (mine took forever...

I am planting 4 Terrific 4 Opalkas 4 Cherokee Purple 4 Chadwick Cherry All of them are new to me but the Terrific's. I really want a Sungold, but I do not have any seeds, *pout*. Need to look and see where I can find some. I started my tomatoes and peppers on Sunday. I put them in egg...

I have to buy a started dill plant, every year, and then it doesn't do well. I have discovered here in GA cilantro can be grown in the shade. If you keep picking it, you'll extend its season. So I plant a few seeds, when they start to grow in and I harvest the first time, I sow a few more. So...

Okay I believe they have either renamed this tomato or discontinued selling it. We have used this variety for 20 years in our garden. Lovely tomato that's good for fresh eating and canning. I was depressed this year when we couldn't get starts. I was learning how to start my own seeds and lost...

Okay I've wanted a pressure canner since I started looking on this forum. I ask my grandmother if we had a pressure cooker? I remember her using one when I was a child. She said to look in the attic. What I found is a pressure cooker, gasket is in good condition. I believe this is not what I...

Those are absolutely beautiful tomatoes damummis. I will try again next year with seeds.

Here is an article from my neck of the woods. Just so that ya'll know, there spreading all over and LOVE bean plants, not just Kudzu. http://onlineathens.com/stories/082911/new_878194467.shtml

Steve I am intrigued!!!! I have heard of some people using oats as a cover crop. I was wanting to experiment in a section of dirt this winter. It's a 20 x 20 section. I would cut it by hand and save some seed to eat and feed the stalks (?) to the horses. Do oats grow in the fall/winter in 7b...

I've always roasted my pepper on the grill. I get them really black and then put them in a plastic bag. After they have sweated I just wipe the black skin off and de-seed all my jalapenos. I often use banana peppers to give the pepper flavor but no heat. I place my roasted peppers, garlic...

I've found a flat top stove is not able to boil enough water to fill my tamale steamer to use it as a water-bath canner. It was just impossible.

I did use my tamale steamer as a water-bath canner this weekend to try some fig jam. It was absolutely wonderful recipe I found. Perfect consistency and taste. I processed them in my tamale steamer because I had never tried this recipe before and that's what it said to do. I need to find a...