{"id":4538,"date":"2015-01-17T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4538"},"modified":"2015-01-17T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T08:00:06","slug":"q-and-a-adding-eggshells-to-your-compost-and-canning-chili-peppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2015\/01\/17\/q-and-a-adding-eggshells-to-your-compost-and-canning-chili-peppers\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: adding eggshells to your compost and canning chili peppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Adding eggshells to your compost<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Do I need to pre-treat eggshells before adding them to my garden as compost? I feel like I&#8217;m wasting something when I just burn them or throw them out. We have our own chickens, which are pasture raised &#8212; and the eggs are wonderful.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ellie Schubert<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Alton, Missouri<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, you don&#8217;t need to do a thing. You can just set them out in an old carton until they are nice and dry then crush them and put them in a bucket until you can sprinkle them on your garden or dig them into your compost pile. Crushed egg shells add calcium to the soil and help prevent such problems as blossom end rot in tomatoes and squash. Good for you for thinking of it! Waste not; want not is our motto. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning chili peppers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I want to know if I can water bath Anaheim chili peppers and be safe? I would use half-pint jars.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Troy Stafford<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Gold Hill, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, all vegetables and meats MUST be pressure canned. You can pickle peppers such as Anaheims or dry them safely too. When pickling peppers, you will be using a water bath canner. They are awesome, canned, so if you don&#8217;t already have a pressure canner, maybe this would be the time to invest. You&#8217;ll be so glad you did! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding eggshells to your compost Do I need to pre-treat eggshells before adding them to my garden as compost? I feel like I&#8217;m wasting something when I just burn them or throw them out. We have our own chickens, which are pasture raised &#8212; and the eggs are wonderful. Ellie Schubert Alton, Missouri No, you [&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\/4538"}],"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=4538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}