Q and A: Canning chili and Grape juice
Canning chili
I have read all of your archived "Ask Jackie" columns and quite a few of the recent columns as well. You talk about not canning foods that are very thick because you can...
Squash rotting, Canning sugar pears, and European canning jars
Squash rotting
We planted Blue Hubbard squash this year (1st time), and while the plants have a fairly decent yield, there are many (a lot!) of squashes that fail to mature. Some are quite small...
Q and A: cabbage for kraut and storing marshmallows
Cabbage for kraut
I planted "stonehead" cabbage. Is it ok for kraut as it is an early cabbage?
Jim Schmautz
Lolo, Montana
You bet, I plant Stonehead cabbage for our fall cabbage and not only does it make...
We escaped the frost!
But I'm sure there is more frost to come. We shut up our big hoop house, still full of peppers and pole beans and said prayers. And they worked! When we woke up it...
Yesterday I canned rhubarb; today I spread manure along the corn
My friend, Jeri, brought be a big bag of fresh rhubarb yesterday, so I spent the entire afternoon cutting it up and canning it. Most of it, I made into rhubarb conserve, which is...