{"id":3491,"date":"2013-09-06T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T07:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2013-09-06T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T07:00:07","slug":"q-and-a-how-long-to-wait-for-foods-to-pickle-and-preparing-the-garden-for-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/09\/06\/q-and-a-how-long-to-wait-for-foods-to-pickle-and-preparing-the-garden-for-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: how long to wait for foods to pickle and preparing the garden for next year"},"content":{"rendered":"

How long to wait for foods to pickle<\/strong><\/p>\n

My wife canned some Dilly Beans last night for the first time. She was wondering how long they need to sit in the jar till they are pickled?<\/em><\/p>\n

Same questions for beets and bread and butter pickles she is going to try next.<\/em><\/p>\n

David Kardelis<\/em>
\nHelper, Utah<\/em><\/p>\n

Usually you should let your pickles sit for at least two weeks before they develop their final flavor. It’s hard to wait, isn’t it? — Jackie<\/p>\n

Preparing the garden for next year<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now that we are nearing the end of the growing season and some crops are done what is the best way to prepare our soil for next year? I have parts where the weeds have gotten away from me. Do I cover crop this early into fall? Maybe a ryegrass? I also have chicken bedding with manure. This has not been one of my best gardens. Just parts of it were the best! I also have \u00bd of the tomato plants with blight. Is there anything I can do to prepare the next tomato area for the next growing season? I also have bags of leaves from last fall that I didn’t use. Should I use them now? Any suggestions as to having a better garden next year would be greatly appreciated. Oh and I have sandy soil.<\/em><\/p>\n

Cindy Hills<\/em>
\nWild Rose, Wisconsin<\/em><\/p>\n

I’d pull all your tomato, pepper, and potato vines and burn them right in the garden (added potash!) to help keep down disease. It’s a little too late for you to covercrop. I’d till the heck out of that weedy area until it freezes then lightly till in the spring a couple of times before you plant. Use your chicken manure to sheet compost right on the garden where you plan on planting your squash, beans, or corn then till it in lightly this fall along with those leaves. You can use those leaves where you plan on planting your tomatoes next year as they won’t give such a hot shot of nitrogen to the soil (causes big vines and few tomatoes) but will add nutrients and organic material to your sandy soil. After you plant and get your garden growing well next spring, think strongly about mulching quite heavily. This really helps keep weeds down. We use about six inches of straw or weed-free hay (we use reed canary grass) and our weed problem went from horrible to hardly any. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How long to wait for foods to pickle My wife canned some Dilly Beans last night for the first time. She was wondering how long they need to sit in the jar till they are pickled? Same questions for beets and bread and butter pickles she is going to try next. David Kardelis Helper, Utah […]<\/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\/3491"}],"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=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}