Q and A: variety of sweet corn and half-gallon jars

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Sweet corn What variety of sweet corn do you grow? During canning our sweet corn turned brown. I thought this is due to high sugar content. Could you give us any advice on this. Mylette Nall Mayfield,...

Q and A: jar sizes in canner and harvesting asparagus

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Jar sizes in canner I have a question concerning jars. Today I was putting up potatoes in qt. wide mouth jars. Ran short by one jar and used a regular size mouth jar in with...

Q and A: saving pumpkin seeds, burning garden debris, and runny egg whites

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Saving pumpkin seeds I would like to save seeds from Amish Pie Pumpkins we plan to grow this summer. I bought a packet this year (at a big box hardware store) and it has...

Q and A of the day: Green tomatoes, Elderberries, and Damping off

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Green tomatoes Jackie, I am sorry to hear about your frost! I see all your tomatoes are red, ours here in New Mexico are all GREEN still! Is there anything I can do to get...

We had a merry Christmas

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On Saturday, my sister, Sue, and nephew, Sean, came up for Christmas as Sean had to work Sunday. David and Sean got to target shoot in the gravel pit and we had a nice...