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Post by Valerie on Jun 22, 2014 6:11:59 GMT -5
Oh shoot! Is it the blooms that you dry, not the leaves?! All that time I was thinking it was the leaves! Mine hasn't bloomed yet; probably because I pinched it back and dried the pinched off parts.
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Post by Granny Smith on Jun 22, 2014 10:47:44 GMT -5
You can use either part, they're both flavorful and medicinal. I use both, but dry and store them separately. Sometimes I just want a flower in my tea.
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Post by Granny Smith on Jun 22, 2014 16:07:11 GMT -5
I hung some ragweed to dry today. Ben saved it for me when he weeded the raised beds.
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Post by Valerie on Jul 10, 2014 11:54:44 GMT -5
I got 5# of apricots (organic) on sale for $1.25/# on the last produce order. That is an extremely low price for around here! I ate some of them and dried the rest. Wound up with almost a whole quart of dried. They don't look like the sulfured ones from the store, but they're sweeter. I'm canning 5 pts of green beans from the garden at this moment. I have okra and peppers in the fridge that need pickling, too, but I have to scrounge up more pint jars first. We don't use a lot of quarts with most of my cooking being for 2, and somehow I have a lot of quart jars around.
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Post by BigM on Jul 11, 2014 4:01:14 GMT -5
I recently put up a couple dozen quarts of green beans (with DD2's help) and that used up the last of my available jars. So, when some one gave us 60 some red bell peppers I had to freeze them. I did about half julienned and half diced, (I bet it was a site too. Sitting in my bed with a big ol' cutting board on my lap!) I also set some aside for stuffed peppers. I would have loved to have made "pimentos" with some, but didn't.
Today I need to blanch and freeze 30 or so ears of corn and I have about 10 pounds of potatoes in there that I want to try to dehydrate; all with the kids help of course. Do you think I can put cooked potatoes in the food processor instead of hand slicing them, or do you think they will mush?
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Post by Valerie on Jul 11, 2014 9:23:10 GMT -5
The fp might mush them up, but you can grate them on a box grater (or the kids can *wink* ). Good for you, M, cuttin up them peppers in your bed! Ya do what ya can do right? Most people would just hide under the covers.
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Post by Granny Smith on Jul 11, 2014 17:00:44 GMT -5
I started 7 pints of Gayla's sauerkraut and 3 quarts and a pint of refrigerator pickles today. I was going to dehydrate zucchini, but I ran out of steam. I'll do it Sunday, instead.
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Post by Valerie on Jul 11, 2014 19:35:24 GMT -5
I think you use dry heat for drying them anyway, Gayle. *wink* You don't need no steam!
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Post by Granny Smith on Jul 11, 2014 21:32:41 GMT -5
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Post by michelle on Aug 17, 2014 6:32:46 GMT -5
I froze another 4 cups of shredded zucchini. I think that makes seven cups total right now.
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Post by guimauve on Aug 19, 2014 6:50:11 GMT -5
All I've been able to achieve is some shredded zucchini as well...crops not doing so hot here, and my own garden rotted out in all the rain. I will have a small bunch of rhubarbe I can pick soon, might try dehydrating it instead of freezing it...
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Post by michelle on Aug 19, 2014 7:14:42 GMT -5
That stinks about your garden. I got more zucchini yesterday and I think that's the end of it - at least I hope that's the end of it
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Post by BigM on Aug 19, 2014 7:46:54 GMT -5
I've got two cases of green onions to dry over the next few days. I'm finding that if I push hard I can get a bag a day in the dehydrator. I'm having the kids plant the bulbs around the house. It's supposed to help keep the ants out. They have been a big problem with the rains.
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Post by Valerie on Aug 19, 2014 10:37:20 GMT -5
That whole thing about the ants marching down through the ground to get out of the rain is so not true once it's rained for a while. Then they all start heading for higher ground, even if it's inside your lawnmower or in your house!
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Post by Granny Smith on Aug 27, 2014 19:57:56 GMT -5
I've been drying so many weeds lately I can't even remember them all. I marked several Ironweed plants a few days ago so I can find them when the go to seed (Wild cumin) I was afraid I wouldn't recognize them once the flowers were gone.
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