QandA: Preserving zucchini and Removing bands from jars

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Preserving zucchini With zucchini season right around the corner, I was wondering the best way to preserve zucchini. In the past, for breads, cakes, etc. I have just shredded it and frozen it, but when...

There is life after frost!

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While much of our garden was killed by freezing, we are terribly happy with all we have. As another frost was forecast, we got busy and picked all we could: tomatoes (both ripe and...

Q and A: missing canner weight and removing stumps

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Missing canner weight I recently found that in a move the 10# weight for my canner was lost. Since I had a canner dial I thought I would just keep pressure at 11 to 12#...

Q and A: fruit tree with thorns and canned rhubarb

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Fruit tree with thorns I was not good about labeling or keeping track of the fruit trees that I planted in my orchard. I have one that has thorns -- do you have any idea...

We just dodged a terrific storm

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It's been very hot and muggy and I told Will we were primed for a bad storm. So when the weather radio called for thunderstorms Monday night we weren't surprised. In fact, we were...