How to store garden vegetables for winter. Harvesting and storing home garden vegetables : Vegetables : Yard and Garden. Extension > Garden > Yard and Garden > Vegetables > Harvesting and storing home garden vegetables Cindy Tong, Extension post-harvest horticulturist One of the joys of summer is homegrown sweet corn, picked right outside your back door and plopped straight into a pot of boiling water or onto the grill.
GH1452 Quality for Keeps: Steps to Success in Home Canning. Food Preservation Team Nutritional Sciences Your home-canned products will be only as good as the fresh foods you start with.
For high-quality, safe, home-canned foods, select the freshest foods possible. Discard diseased and moldy foods. Don't can foods that you wouldn't serve at your table fresh. GH1459 Quality for Keeps: Pack a Pickled Product. Food Preservation Team Nutritional Sciences Sauerkraut 25 pounds cabbage 3/4 cup canning or pickling salt Yield About 9 quarts Quality Firm heads of fresh cabbage make the best sauerkraut.
P. Allen Smith Garden Home. It seems like the higher the temperatures rise some of the vegetables perform better than others and nothing likes the heat better than okra.
This canned pickle okra recipe is a great way to preserve this vegetable and enjoy it into the fall, winter and even next spring. Ingredients 3 1/2 to 4 pounds okra (about 35 pods per jar) 7 cups vinegar 1/3 cup pickling salt Garlic cloves (4 per jar) Hot peppers, stems removed (2 per jar) Dill Sterile pint jars with lids Directions: Bring the vinegar and pickling salt to a boil. Drop a few garlic cloves and 2 hot peppers.
Pack the jar with orka. Container Gardening for the Modern Survivalist. Today we take a deep look at a subject we really haven’t gone into for a long time, container gardening.
I know many listeners have very small yards or no yards and are regulated to growing things on a balcony. Containers though to me are for everyone, they short cut soil prep time, offer many advantages and can be used in a variety of ways that improve your production regardless of your land or lack thereof. Gardening. Spices & Herbs. Agricultural Building and Equipment Plan List. Gardening ebook : Ministry of Agriculture Allotment and Garden Guides - 1945. Explore Cornell - Home Gardening - Introduction. Bottle tower gardening: how to start ? (Willem Van Cotthem) Together with my friend Gilbert VAN DAMME (Zaffelare, Belgium) I have set up some successful experiments with vertical gardening in “container towers”.
We are using all kinds of recycled containers, e.g. plastic bottles, pots, buckets. Vertical Gardens. Today is International Women's Day.
Worldwatch Institute is recognizing it by celebrating the power of women to nourish the planet. I learned some interesting facts from reading their article. Worldwide roughly 1.6 billion women rely on farming for their livelihoods, and female farmers produce more than half of the world’s food. In sub-Saharan Africa alone, women account for 75 percent of all the agricultural producers. The information in the paragraph above astounds me. The good news is that women worldwide are developing and utilizing agricultural innovations to sustainably nourish their families and communities. The fact that women worldwide are using agricultural innovations is not news to me. No ground? Use containers: Journey to Forever organic garden. You can grow plants in virtually anything that holds some soil and has holes in the bottom for drainage.
It's only bounded by your imagination -- a chance for some really creative recycling. We use old bathtubs, 20-litre plastic containers with the tops cut off, baskets of various sizes lined with garbage bags to hold the water in, milk cartons for seedlings, anything that comes to hand. We almost used some dumped toilet bowls, only we didn't like the color (pink). Grow a pillar of vegetables -- 12 square feet of growing area on only 1.2 sq ft of ground. See Growing columns. Container Gardening Links. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds - 1400 heirloom garden seeds! Building a square foot garden: Journey to Forever. Where to build it Is the soil fertile enough?
Raised beds and double-digging The lazy way Paths The sides Sizes and shapes Trellises Cement Soil No compost? Where to build it Square foot gardening is a clever approach to growing food. It's easy to do, easy to manage, very adaptible, and it produces high yields of top-quality food. Garden Guides, Your Guide to Everything Gardening. PLANTS Links - all. Web Site Development. Development of this Web site was made possible by a grant from the Arizona Cooperative Extension's "Moving to Higher Ground" initiative.
The printed version of the Manual forms the core of the curriculum for the successful and highly regarded Master Gardener volunteer program. The Manual was developed as a collaborative project by county Extension Agents and Specialists, with assistance from University faculty and staff, along with Master Gardeners themselves. Staff at the College of Agriculture's Water Resources Research Center were responsible for organizing, formatting and manipulating the original material into a Web-suitable format.
Deciding How Much to Plant in the Vegetable Garden. Grow It! Blog - Organic Gardening, When to Plant Crops, Growing Food, Pest Control, Weed Control, Gardening Advice. After a year without honeybees, we have two new hives. Our previous bees did not survive the 2012/2013 winter. There has been a tree or two that needed to be cut down near the beeyard and you’d think that we would have gotten that done in the past year. It was the upcoming arrival of our new bees that motivated us to cut that tree and remove the lower branches of other nearby trees. Mother Earth News. Agriculture. Daily photo-journal of organic market gardening: growing local food with two acres and some tools...!Tiny Farm Blog.