Posted on 09/16/2023 3:07:53 PM PDT by CottonBall
This is an ongoing thread – meaning come back to chat, post information, or ask questions any time. Hopefully the thread won’t stagnate and I’ll do better at posting weekly (or bi-weekly) topics than I have in the past. (anyone willing to post a topic now and then we'll be highly praised and appreciated).
We are in for some bumpy rides, and prepping can only help. If for peace of mind, if nothing else. We have a wonderful gardening thread and a current-events survival/prepping thread, and hopefully this one can piggyback off of those, maybe having a longer discussion about certain topics or … whatever. It's your thread, do what you like with it! (civilly, of course)
Here are granny’s threads, if anyone wants to peruse them:
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #1
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #2
nw_arizona_granny’s Thread #3
You are probably right, as things get more and more chaotic it’s hard to just calm down and do the next indicated thing. And you’ve probably hit on why I’m not getting much done in my life! I spend a lot of time reading the news and getting upset.
what is TBH?
Thanks for the reminders about turnips.
I remember that my grandmother, mom and aunts used turnips.
I have always been a veggie person but haven’t seen a turnip in decades.
I don’t recall seeing them in the grocery stores or at the roadside veggie stands.
Maybe they are there and I’m just passing them by - I’ll have to look a little closer.
I’ll get some seeds and see if I can get them to grow in our sandy soil.
So far, they are the easiest to grow veggie I ever met.
After I dug up my garlic, I well composted and manured the bed and was going to let it go fallow until next spring. Then I noticed some *weeds* growing in it but because I had so much else to do I figured I’d get them later when they were bigger and easier to pull up.
Well, I got back to them and it turned out they were the biggest turnips I had ever grown. I’ve found them growing at random everywhere. Since they don’t really grow underground, the soil type doesn’t seem to make much difference. However, if your soil is sandy, I’d think it would be worth fertilizing.
My favorite use for turnips so far is beef barley soup.
I’m actually more partial to Parsnips, so try some of those, too! :)
"Would you be interested in doing a topic on canning? Or anything else you are interested in?"
Throwing my 2¢ in.
I suggest that "Home Canning" would be an excellent weekly topic for us.
I know it has been discussed on older threads and posts but I think it would be an interesting topic for people currently active on this thread.
There are a lot of sub-topics to discuss and share information about:
❶ How-To Do It
❷ Equipment
❸ Jars and Lids
❹ Recipes
❺ Personal techniques and experiences
Pretty Exciting Stuff Right? ☺
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PS: Here is a whacky and scary 2021 Free-Repub thread:
"Check out Facebook's warning that interest in food preservation might be a sign of extremism"
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3991026/posts
The original Facebook page is gone but the Free-Repub Thread and posts are still here.
Imagine the state of mind to conclude that people who prepare and preserve their own food instead of looting grocery stores are possible extremists!
I don't know if we should laugh or buy more ammo!
I will - thanks
Here’s what got cheaper and what got more expensive at grocery stores last month
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4182207/posts
“You just have to make sure you can find wheat berries locally. “
I’m curious how come?
turnips, how lovely you have volunteer ones!!
That’s pretty neat, where did you get it?
“There are a lot of sub-topics to discuss and share information about:
❶ How-To Do It
❷ Equipment
❸ Jars and Lids
❹ Recipes
❺ Personal techniques and experiences
Pretty Exciting Stuff Right? ☺”
Actually it is, I love canning! That was on my list but I think I’m going to do it sooner, I have an emergency canning question. Emergency because I might have to return a canner if it won’t work. I’ll post something to you and everyone shortly. Thanks so much for the great ideas!
“Imagine the state of mind to conclude that people who prepare and preserve their own food instead of looting grocery stores are possible extremists!”
I guess we are extreme because we won’t be able to be controlled. Not by threats of starvation.
I don’t know if this was fact or what, but I remember threads a little while ago about them not letting us buy non-hybrid seeds.
This is your ping to the All Things Prepping, Simple Living, Back to the Basics [a place to come sit on the porch and chat, an on going thread]
I’m doing a midweek ping because I have an emergency canning question. And I know somebody on our list has the answer! ( I decided to take advantage of being the keeper of the Ping list)
I just bought an All-American canner. I’ve been wanting one for years. I got a little one, a 915. (I rarely Double Stack but I do have arm issues so any less weight helps a lot.)
It wasn’t until I received it that I wondered about the Tattler Lids I use. Does anybody know if they are compatible? I don’t see any reason why they wouldn’t be but if I couldn’t use my tattlers I would return it. I love those things! But canners should all work similarly so….just wondering…
(oh and I see they’ve come out with disposable lids that use the separate ring too)
If you want off/on this list, just let me know.
Thanks for the ping.
I know nothing about canning, sorry.
no problem!!
How are things going for you today? Is proby feeling better and still eating his wet food with medicine?
I would think that the Tattler lids would be oblivious to the type of canner they are processed in.
“I would think that the Tattler lids would be oblivious to the type of canner they are processed in.”
That’s what I thought also.
I only have a few more days if I needed to return it. And I didn’t want to check it out by canning something to test it. Because then it would be mine.
Here is what I found.
“Can you use tattler lids in pressure canner?
Tattler lids are food-grade-plastic canning lids suitable for both water bath and pressure canning. They are reusable indefinitely as long as they are cared for. They are two pieces: the white food-grade-plastic (no BPA) lid and the rubber ring.”
I never got into canning because my mothers, mother, died of Botulism from canning when my mother was only nine months old.
I know things are way different now but the idea that it happened plus I was always fearful a pressure cooker would blow up on me.
I was out of lil’ soups so mixed meds in with other wet food, but he didn’t eat all of it. Pouring rain and flooded streets so I’ll get more soups when the water goes down.
I’m OK, as OK as I can be with my neck problems.
Looks promising we are getting a Speaker!
Your surgery date is approaching fast, so hopefully this pain will be a thing of the past.
wow, rain and flooding in texas! I do remember we had a monsoon season in El paso, in august.
We have done quite a bit of canning, water bath and pressure.
We also have an All-American canner. but have never used Tattler lids.
Here are my thoughts -
If you have used Tattler Lids with success in a different pressure canner I don’t see why they wouldn’t work with the All American.
The lid doesn’t know if you are using a Mirro pressure canner or an All American.
And it shouldn’t matter because the basic operation of all pressure canners is the same - some just have different details.
They all bring the contents to a specific pressure, maintain it for the correct period of time and let it drop back to normal air pressure.
If I had concerns I would run a trial with one jar of water and a Tattler lid.
We ran a trial like that when we first got our All American canner just to familiarize ourselves with it.
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