Archive for June, 2010

The First Cates Canned Beans… Ever

Martha and I (With great help from her mom) canned our first beans today. I have to admit it seems a bit odd to call putting things in jars canning but oh well. Using Martha’s mom’s pressure canner and a load of our garden pole beans we successfully canned 8 quarts for future consumption. I [...]

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Cooking with Garden Veg (Early test cooking)

We are now harvesting beans and picked our first okra and one green tomato this week. We already had dinner plans but decided to supplement with some garden veg as a sort of test cooking. Martha prepared the beans using her mothers method and we fried the 2 okra and 1 green tomato. We hope [...]

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Growing Currants in Alabama, Zone 7b

I have to start by saying this is an experiment and not a lesson on how-to. I have been told by some I am just to far south to grow them at all and yet others seem to think I have a shot. After watching a lot of British gardening programs I decided I had [...]

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