Posted on 02/28/2014 12:35:18 PM PST by greeneyes
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I have made pickled onions using the same recipe as for Refrigerator pickles. They go so fast that I have never had enough to actually can them.
I like to slice the big red onions and pickle them for use on salads.
By all means post your recipe. I am using the lil noses saline solution and breathing in tea until it cools enough to drink.LOL
I have a portable mister, that I bought last year, and packed away. I can’t remember where I packed it, and so far have not been able to find it.
This is the time of year I like to can stuff also. This week we had a very good special on chicken and pork, but I was too tired to try it. I hope we have a good deal this up coming week. Maybe I’ll feel up to it then.
No I didn’t, but then I water daily the same amount, unless we get rain. Cracking is largely due to watering fluctuations.
Hubby continues to be amazed with my lemon tree. I think it is a Meyer, but don’t know for sure, as the catalog I ordered it from didn’t give the specific name.
As it was to be a two for one lemon and lime, we also were not certain what we were getting the first time. The lime had lots of thorns, so we wound up cutting it off entirely.
The skin is thin and the lemon is much juicier than the lemons sold at the grocery. It made great lemonade, and juice for seafood.
Can you maybe dehydrate onions? Alton Brown on the Food Channel does that but JRFr says that dried foods don’t keep really well (I assume that that is in TX. I’m in TN and it’s really wet here but we’ve done well with dried foods here this year.)
I use most of what I dehydrate within about 3-4 months, as a matter of normal life.
/johnny
We have dehydrated onions succesfully, and made onion powder out of them. The rest of our onions we just put in one layer in a card board box in the basement.
I tried Cherokee Purple last year. The plant grew great but didn’t flower or give me a single tomato. But then none of the slicers produced, only a nibbling of the Black Cherry and less than the norm of Yellow Pear.
It’s sunny and 83 today but freezing temps will be back tomorrow night. The 6 week seedlings are pitiful little nothings what with the house being so cold after the heating system decided to go into death throes. With all the wacky temps, I’m afraid to buy the berries and lemon I’ve been wanting.
Except when it’s about the sun.
How long have those been planted?
Ack, should have read down to find when they were planted. I planted about then too but we won’t talk about how they’re doing.
“But Sunday night is supposed to get down to 19F.”
Sunday night it will be 41 here. On what planet do you live?
It's the Metroplex. It's always screwy.
/johnny
Strange. At times I've had tomatoes flower like crazy and not set a single fruit till the nights warmed up to the mid 60s. Never had any that didn't flower. Maybe too much nitrogen and not enough phosphorus and potassium in the soil?
Well if my Cherokees and Green Zebras flop I'm hoping Charger will save the day. Supposedly was bred for growing in our Florida climate.
Been too cold to plant here in Texas this week, but onions and other bulb plants are doing OK. Hope to get something into the dirt this week.
You probably already knew, but when you are ready to transplant your tobacco into its permanent garden soil, if it is eighty feet tall, you can bury it deep (or sideways), up to the bottom leaves, like you would a tomato.
I can hardly wait till photos of the tobacco forest.
Hope you get well soon.
I transplant them to the big garden when the leaves are about as big as a dime.
/johnny
Wow. Good looking pepper plants. Mine are still primary leaves, but I cannot set out til April 15th.
I dry onions. I just found some that I dehydrated in 2006 and they are just as divine as the day I packed them.
Plus dehydrating them, you can fit a bushel of onions into a quart jar. Just don’t start nibbling a jar of dried onion rings when you are drinking beer or you may end up in the hospital.
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