Dave, that is Astroturf in your picture - are you sure you grew those; looks like the faked moon landing pictures all over again.
Stick some soil in a pan, stick in seeds, water, pack them at the bottom of some really big heavy box of books and odd kitchen things, find them...
PS, I do notice the bit of irony: Lucius, 'light' and Maximus......Luciusminimus, and a picture of a mouse could work too.........[IMG]...
My wax beans are producing. And the banana peppers. Greens are on the way out fast - the Brussels sprouts have become some caterpillar feeders and...
It was a lot of rain 3 + inches. When ever you hear the inches of rain on some local weather I wonder where they got the numbers, they are so low....
They are not getting enough light -tomatoes fruit starting at the bottom - then the next fruit is above that, and the next above...so they are...
EnnuiAs only a bottle of pickled eggs can demonstrate fully: Bit washed out because I forgot to save the beet water to turn it all deep...
During the war weren't they making parsnip jam and other crazy stuff? Good for glazing the Sunday roast spam though.
Pectin is high here in USA. But I have a mania about not paying money for gardening and using the stuff I grow. Spending to produce always bothers...
Scrungee - I see that column of % of esterification is where the easy jelling lies - none for blackberries - but an OK pectin level.So...
No, no, that would be ridiculous. Had to save room for some aerosol cheese to dress it properly[IMG](And aerosol cheese is really tasty in a...
I do not want to use pectin - I think it is cheating - unless one made it yourself, which is doable.And yes, blackberries are low pectin But I...
As I write here I have a plate balanced on my leg, an omelet of eggs from my pogy fed chickens, dried garlic chives, parsley, basil from the...
I am picking and freezing blackberries and have a (USA) gallon and half, and expect to end up with three gallons and want to make jam from them....
Piffle. Also his religion was an Adult thing. CS was a total prodigy, extraordinarily exceptional in language and philosophy (he became both a...
And I did go out - and picked another half gallon of berries, getting a few of the prime Jan that are so much smaller than the Kioa, and Today has...
What can one think of and plan for 23 hours a day? Are you a theorizer or pragmatist? Would you read Aquinas or Dawkins? (edit - Lewis or...
I can live with that worry. Once (this is true, I do not invent stuff) my mushroom hunting partner and I were working way back in the forest in...
Like a 'Rat on Acid' as we would have equated that to back in the 1970s. I have little bit of that brain problem too, but do go into the water,...
Bit elegant, I miss the days when that would have been perfect - but will try it, epically as Delia says they freeze excellently. I will buy some...
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