Dwarf fruit trees
I want to plant some dwarf fruit trees and I can’t find an Arkansas Nursery which sells dwarf trees that are good for the Arkansas Climate. Also could you help with a list of trees that would be disease resistant in Arkansas?
Audrey Raines
Bee Branch, Arkansas
You will probably have to order trees online if you can’t find them locally. Nationwide companies such as Stark Brothers Nursery sell fruit trees compatible to your zone. Another company, Willis Orchard Company, has been recommended to me. You also might contact the University of Arkansas Extension Office for their recommendations. Unfortunately, there really isn’t a true disease-resistant dwarf tree even though some have been advertised as such. They may be slightly more disease-resistant, but that’s about it. Good care and a watchful eye do more to keep fruit trees healthy than anything else does. — Jackie
Refrigerator pickles
Quick question about pickling and canning cucumbers. I usually make refrigerator pickles because they get gone so fast. I have noticed that the jars will seal after adding the boiling vinegar, salt and water, even though I don’t do a boiling water bath. Are these safe to leave out of the fridge? My friend pickles everything this way and never refrigerates it. Is that safe?
Paul Miller
Salisbury, North Carolina
This is the way most of our grandmothers put up pickles. But more recently, in the government’s effort to keep us safer, it is now recommended that pickles be water bath processed. At the risk of being lynched by “experts,” let me say that my cucumber pickles are not water bath processed; the boiling brine is poured over the pickles in the jars and the hot lid and ring are tightened. I can not recommend this method — it’s just what I do. — Jackie
From the shambles of our country from the “experts” who are running it, I think I will stick with you.
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