{"id":3422,"date":"2013-08-07T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2013-08-07T03:00:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T07:00:39","slug":"q-and-a-limescale-in-canner-and-raccoons-in-the-corn-patch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/08\/07\/q-and-a-limescale-in-canner-and-raccoons-in-the-corn-patch\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: limescale in canner and raccoons in the corn patch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Limescale in canner<\/strong><\/p>\n

I made your V-8 type juice yesterday and it smelled heavenly! However, I had to use a large kettle that I sometimes use for waterbathing to heat all the juice in to 190 degrees. This kettle had limescale on the bottom, but imagine my surprise when it was all gone when I scooped out the last of the juice! I should have anticipated this, but my question is, is my juice ok or has the ph been compromised by this? I was careful to add the lemon juice to each jar as directed.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lucy<\/em><\/p>\n

I’d imagine that your juice is just fine. The extra lemon juice generally covers such problems. Now you know how to clean your pot! (Vinegar is cheaper and works well, too.) — Jackie<\/p>\n

Raccoons in the corn patch<\/strong><\/p>\n

Corn and raccoons…This is our first year growing sweet corn and in one night, the raccoons took out a third of it. The remainder is not ready to pick (small, hard kernels) so we are at risk for losing more. We do not have a dog to turn out into the patch. There are some pretty wild ideas out there for protecting against raccoons. Do you have tried and true suggestions or should I just double the patch next year and share.<\/em><\/p>\n

Michele Zipf<\/em>
\nBatavia, Ohio<\/em><\/p>\n

You can try putting a radio out in your garden with a talk-station on. That sometimes works. But the only thing that really works is to fence the corn patch. This is one place I like electric fencing. If you run electric fence wire all around the corn patch, (mow the fence line first), keeping your bottom row about 6 inches from the ground, then repeating with 4 more rows, 6 inches apart, Mr. Coon will stay away. You’ll have to check the fence every morning for a few days as there could be spots that were compromised by shocked coons. But after a day or two, you should have no more trouble. If you double your patch next year, more coons will just show up to “share” with you. For a permanent anti-coon system, I advise steel T-posts with 2×4-inch welded wire around the patch with a stand-off electric wire at 6 inches, then at 12 inches. This nearly always keeps the raccoons away. They DO love ripe sweet corn! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Limescale in canner I made your V-8 type juice yesterday and it smelled heavenly! However, I had to use a large kettle that I sometimes use for waterbathing to heat all the juice in to 190 degrees. This kettle had limescale on the bottom, but imagine my surprise when it was all gone when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}