With 2 canners going at one time I can make 14 quarts of green beans. Not bad and it gives me time to get the next batch ready to go. With the pints of shelled beans we got 24 pints which will last a good long time, I made some pork and beans out of about half of them using some of the tomatoes that had to be saved. If I sound like I am complaining I am not.. I am happy that I have the plants and even more thankful that I have the ability to can it all and make sure our family is fed well no matter what happens. I even had time to experiment with new pickles. I never did lime ones and did two batches.. One out of the cukes that had not been picked in time and got too big which is what the recipe called for.. They turned out so good so I tried another batch of limed sweet cubes. I haven't tasted them yet they have to sit for a couple of weeks but they look really good. In all I canned 12 cases of things this week. That should keep us in groceries for a few days anyway. Beans, tomatoes, peppers, cukes, collards and pork n beans. Oh I forgot I dehydrated 4 bushels of the beans too. Folks get ready. It is going to be a rough ride this winter I think. In fact I have a feeling that these next two months will also be pretty traumatic as it is hurricane season again and even though Texas needs the water it doesn't need the wind and destruction. Our country is in bad condition, not much we can do as individuals but collectively we can refuse to co operate with the fascist... just say Hell No... or don't say anything at all and just don't do it. Save all you can, buy all the supplies you can and store them, make sure you have the ability to eat and that your children won't be going to bed with government food in their bellies...Too much going on to be able to know what is true and what is not any longer. On the radio they are speaking about hybrid human and animal species being raised in England, my Lord people what is going on? Then they tell us that in 2004 the University of Gainsville developed a living brain from rat cells grown in a petri dish that can control a jet plane? Can this be true? How did we come to even begin to think of this mess? And if that isn't bad enough now we see that the American Red Cross will now be taking blood donations from homosexuals? That was banned with the event of HIV and the people contracting it from transfusions.. A safe guard to protect the normal people. Now the normal people are the ones that are being destroyed gradually and effectively with chemicals, sound, education and even our churches. This is scary folks.. I personally do not want to take the chance of contracting Aids while getting a transfusion to save me from something else..... http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen/11c/blood_donor_ban/index.html John Kerry is now paying us back for not electing him.. he is the perpetrator of this garbage. I hope he is the first to have a transfusion with bad blood.. May God protect us from those we elected to protect our Country. We messed up Royally. The country is bankrupt and we give the UN 100 Billion dollars? How does that happen? Shouldn't we be paying our bills first? How does the UN benefit us ? We need to boot them out of the country, Let them go to Africa and take Obama with them. Run the world from there, Now I am going to go take a cold shower, our air conditioning unit was hit by lightening and we have no air for the past week cool off then eat some beans and wait for Mr. Gore to come by and sell me my Carbon Credits. Granny Warrior < email>
It has been a long long week friends. this is just a small portion of what our puny little garden has produced this week alone. This was one evenings pickings from 3 25 foot rows of string beans.. we have greasy cuts, blue lake and half runners.. Don't ask the actual names as I have no idea, these seeds came from a farm that has been using them and saving them for the past 40 years or so and before that another member of the family ran it for 20 so in all about 60 years of the same seeds.... Now that is what I call Heirloom. We scaled down the garden this year to grow only what we actually ate which basically is greens, beans and tomatoes. Add a few cuke plants and of course my Okra and Collards plus a few Jalapeno plants and we are good to go. Growing cabbage and other vegetables which take up a lot of space and produce only one item is a waste to me plus it is cheaper to buy a cabbage around here than to take the time to grow one. Tim's friend grows a few acres of corn still and we get 5 or 6 bushels from him in trade for some of our beans. Works for me as we have enough beans canned to feed half of Asheville for at least a week... I mean I have beans. I simply cannot throw away a piece of food plus Karen is coming next month and can haul back to Texas some good ol NC beans...
Sunday, 31 July 2011
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