Posted on 10/12/2019 6:37:48 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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With a light freeze for this morning, pulled everything last night.
A few good tomatoes and a whole bunch of small ones. They’ve still got to ripen so they’re on the table.
I got some good peppers (not too many other than small). They’re all green so most of them need to ripen on the table as well.
I’m gonna gut the tops off the small tomatoes that are red (and when the others go red) and freeze them. They’ll go into some chili at some point.
So many theories. Not enough hours in the day. :(
About all I can tell you is that I buy broccoli plants in a 6 pack and buy brussel sprouts plants as well. They are both slow growing and I am in west Michigan so I never have started them by seed. Always have a great broccoli crop. Brussel sprouts matured and had lots of little cabbages but the deer came through and stripped them. If it was dry where you are at could be not enough water. They both like cooler weather. I have almost no experience with cauliflower.
Thank you !
I love that stuff! :)
Sigh; hard freeze Tuesday night, with 5-6” snow Wed-Fri. Before it hit, we picked about 4 gallons of unripe peaches, and as many apples as we could..
Hoping for the best with the peaches; going to go through tme tomorrow, and start cooking them.
It’s been a tough season on a lot of us. Too much rain, temps all over the place and an early start to winter.
Blech! :(
Get the effect on inexpensive clear glass items---see tutorials on-line.
The dollar store has odd glassware. And squat jam jars in the
supermarket---w/ pressed glass fruit designs--look like antiques
when mercuried.
NOTE Many spray paint produts have been tried and failed---silver,
chrome, nickle. Krylon Looking Glass paint works. Hard to find---
but Hobby Lobby has it.
HOW-TO Spray droplets of water inside the glass before
spray-painting----to get that antique mottled look after it dries.
Shop Hobby Lobby on-line.
http://www.hobbylobby.com/home.cfm?market=yp
I’ve done this before - it looks great! That is some amazing paint.
Also, I paint Mason jars with a flat black paint first, then any color on top and then use a bit of sandpaper on any wording on the jar to make it really stand out.
Amazingly a butter-yellow over a black matte paint on just about anything looks really cool. ;)
Got any pics of the Mason jar?......hard to picture.......
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This is neat......turn clear glass milk bottles/jars/mason
jars to look like collectible vintage blue jars and bottles.
The magic ratio: tsp Elmer's glue: 3 drops blue food coloring; 1.5 tsp
water. To make turquoise: two drops blue, 1 drop green food coloring.
HOW TO---Using even strokes, brush onto jar from top to bottom being careful not to go over it too much or the glue will start to clump together (this part is a little frustrating until you get the hang of it). The streaks when the mixture is wet will be almost invisible if done correctly. This is where patience comes in. The bottle dries in minutes; can microwave 30 seconds on low to expedite. FOR AUTHENTICITY: add an extra coat to the neck of the jar and at the bottom. Real vintage jars age deeper blue at these two spots.
Well, we now have about a half of a 5 gallon bucket of waste, a small mixing bowl full of pits, and about 4 quarts of simmering peach pulp in the stock pot. We’ll finish jamming & canning it tomorrow.
Managed to save about half of the barely ripening peaches we picked last week, before the freeze (18F) & snow hit us. I was afraid we wouldn’t get any.
Unfortunately, they taste like the reason I don’t buy peaches at the store, which are also picked green: bland. Thinking about adding some crushed pineapple to it, to kick it up a notch.
Well, at least part of the crop was saved! :)
In the past my FIL would gift me with buckets of all sorts of wonderful things from his garden. I loved it when a 5-gallon bucket of Concorde grapes mysteriously appeared on my porch.
Nothing better than homemade grape juice, IMHO.
Very pretty! One of my favorite colors in the world. :)
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