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Around here it's going for $5 a dozen bought from the back of a pickup. Picked fresh every morning, probably a dozen different guys in parking lots around town.
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Around here it's going for $5 a dozen bought from the back of a pickup. Picked fresh every morning, probably a dozen different guys in parking lots around town.
We've had perfect weather for corn. Late planting as it was cold/wet early, but ample moisture, good temps during pollination and lots of hot humid weather since then.
We've had perfect weather for corn. Late planting as it was cold/wet early, but ample moisture, good temps during pollination and lots of hot humid weather since then.
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Yes we grew up with a chest freezer, too. Man use to can everything and put up corn like you did. Remember the 1/2 gal milk cartons? She'd slit down each corner to about 4" from the bottom, put in a plastic bag and fill the bottom 4" with corn. fold the flaps over and tape shut.
How you keep your jars from clouding up with minerals from your water bath? I run two dehumidifiers down in the basement. Tomorrow, I'm putting up a couple of jars of pickles. I'll try the DH water in the bath (not inside the jars).
Dan, are talking about mineral build up on the outside of the jar from the water? I don't know if Dave is doing this, or needs to, but I always add a couple tablespoons or so of white vinegar to the water in my canner (I don't measure, just pour some in). That little bit of vinegar in the water when I'm canning (water bath and pressure) has eliminated mineral residue on the outside of my jars.
Yes I was talking about on the outside. Curious, if he might not be doing it that way, is there another method?
Have you tried using an outdoor turkey cooker system to do canning and cooking? Keeps the moisture and heat outdoors, heats up the water 5 times as fast and keeps the mess outdoors as well.
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I've got one, and was going to use it this time, but didn't have as much gas as I thought I did. At that point didn't want to make the hour round trip to town to get more so just did it inside. Poor planning on my part...
Would have saved a lot of time. Can only do about a dozen ears at a time on smaller pot on stove. With much larger turkey cooker could probably double that amount.
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This 64-quart cooking kit is brand new as of Monday. Needed it to cook all the crabs we caught the other day. It'll do corn too!
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At the research farm in WI we had a steam boiler and custom 8 ft³ stainless pots that we used to distill mint. Those were perfect for steaming corn in the husks for large field days, also do large batches of potatoes on occasion. Would have been great for crab, lobster or crawfish boils, but of course we were in WI....
Some nice broccoli coming along, as usual the weather is too warm and the heads will be small. We will get a couple meals, then as the weather cools I should get lots of side shoots to eat and freeze. Home frozen broccoli is so much better than the store bought stuff
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Dave, do you not have cabbage loopers? By now at this time of year, I would have had only skeletons, if I was not out there picking and spraying every day.
Thats how we do our corn, blanch it cool it quick in ice water, cut it off the cob and freeze. It's really hard to get a lot of separation between varieties. My early corn is almost ready, I think it's about a 75-day corn. I planted some silver queen which is a 110-day corn and it's already silking out. Silver queen does tend to ripen over a longer period of time than most of the early variety's and with the days getting shorter we should have corn into September. I used to think that I could never get enough corn on the cob but now by the end of the season I'm ready to be done with it.
Brassicas are always a challenge, I use seven garden dust early then switch to dawn dish soap spray later. My cabbage was hardly bothered this year but I have some brussel sprouts started for fall that are getting chewed up.
Just noticed - them are some mighty fine raised beds!!
That may have been part of my problem. When I had my bees in the backyard, could not use sevin dust. Maybe the those 12 years without much control gave me a problem I cannot control now even with sevin. Have not tried cabbage in a few years now, but last time, unless I kept them picked off and used a constant coating of sevin on top AND bottom of leaf they were toast. And everytime it rained or I watered, I'd have to do it again - which ended up being most everyday - wasn't worth the trouble. Maybe the other problem is that NO ONE anywhere close grows veggies or fruit . All these hungry pests are concentrated on my yard because I'm the only one!
Another thing that really helps while your plants are getting started is to use hoops a some light weight fabric row covers. I use it a lot on various crops. I have some 15' x 30' pieces that i cover the corn with. It gives a couple of degrees of frost protection and more importantly the crows can't pull it. A half dozen crows can wipe out a garden size patch of corn in about 15 minutes. When the corn is too big for the crows I plant my beans a use it to cover them.
Every time I bend over for a few minutes to weed and thin then straighten up, my bp medicine makes me dizzy. Solution; don't bend over.