{"id":4244,"date":"2014-08-31T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4244"},"modified":"2014-08-31T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T07:00:48","slug":"q-and-a-nitrogen-purged-freezer-storage-picking-hopi-pale-grey-squash-early-and-canning-salsa-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/08\/31\/q-and-a-nitrogen-purged-freezer-storage-picking-hopi-pale-grey-squash-early-and-canning-salsa-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: nitrogen purged freezer storage, picking Hopi Pale Grey squash early, and canning salsa mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nitrogen purged freezer storage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you know of any one doing nitrogen purged freezer storage?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>John Alderman<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t. I do know of folks who use dry ice to remove the oxygen in long term storage containers but not for freezer storage. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Picking Hopi Pale Grey squash early<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Our Hopi Pale Grey Squash is growing like crazy, and it has at least a dozen nice big squash on it. This is my first time growing it, or any winter squash for that matter. Everything I read says wait until after the first light frost to pick them. Do I have to wait, or can I pick one now? It&#8217;s just I can&#8217;t wait to try it, they look so good.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Steve in Wyoming<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sure, Steve, go ahead and pick one. They are great tasting even when softball sized, used as a summer squash. Some of our friends just harvested and ate one of their immature Hopi Pale Greys and said it was the best squash they&#8217;d ever tasted! I&#8217;m tickled that yours are doing so well. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning salsa mix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I purchased a salsa mix to add to my tomatoes (Mrs. Wage&#8217;s mild) and while the taste was great, I am questioning the processing instructions. The mix contains dehydrated vegetables and spices and for 10 cups of tomatoes, I added 1\/2 cup vinegar. The instructions said it could be water bathed but that amount of vinegar didn&#8217;t seem to be enough to safely do that. What do you think?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Katherine Jordahl<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Fergus Falls, Minnesota <\/em><\/p>\n<p>That recipe is one that has been tested and found safe for canning. I don&#8217;t use it because I grow all of my own ingredients except for the lemon juice I use. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitrogen purged freezer storage Do you know of any one doing nitrogen purged freezer storage? John Alderman No, I don&#8217;t. I do know of folks who use dry ice to remove the oxygen in long term storage containers but not for freezer storage. &#8212; Jackie Picking Hopi Pale Grey squash early Our Hopi Pale Grey [&hellip;]<\/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\/4244"}],"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=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}