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No canning going on here Annie.
I did finish getting around 7 dozen ears of corn processed and in the freezer. Enough to last the year I think. My yellow filet bush beans are growing well and should start blooming in a couple weeks. I'll blanch and freeze about 10 pounds of those(hopefully!).
My new pullets started laying in July. The first one started laying at 15 weeks and I think all 6 are laying now. I have 2 copper maran pullets that are supposed to lay the dark brown eggs. For about the first month they were laying cream colored eggs but a week or so ago they finally started to color them dark brown. Weird!
It’s been a bad gardening year here. Still waiting for rain. I agree that chipotle cucumbers doesn’t sound right. I love chipotle mayo though! Slap some roasted red peppers and chipotle mayo on nearly any sandwich or burger and it should be good. :)
Jack, freezing counts, so you're still doing OK. :-) I have a Maran and I found that they have to "grow into" the substance they produce to make the eggs dark brown. They'll lay dark eggs for a couple of years and then they will start getting lighter and lighter, like they've run out of the pigment that makes the eggs dark, if that makes sense. The older the Maran the lighter the egg becomes. The eggs are still delicious, though, so I'm good with that.
PM, it's been in the 90s here and we have had about half an inch of rain total in the past 6 weeks. The garden is only doing well because of the sprinklers. Between the groundhogs, the raccoons in the sweetcorn and the potato bugs it seems like I'm fighting pests as well as weather. I won't be doing anything else with corn this year unless I buy some, unfortunately. On the flip side, corn is not my favorite thing from the garden, so I'm OK with a shortage of that. Frost got the apples, the peaches and the sweet cherries, so none of those this year and not many strawberries. Blackberries are yet to be determined, I suppose I should water those tomorrow too!
I think tomorrow I'll be canning some hot pepper mustard, if no one finds something else for me to do. Probably green beans again, and then eventually there will be grapes if they keep looking as good as they do now.
Annie
Vine is producing impressive numbers of stunning blooms, about fifty more to pop in the coming weeks!
You CAN freeze sweet white corn ON THE COB, but it requires A VERY SPECIFIC PROCESS. Most important, the corn must be at perfect maturity and it MUST BE PROCESSED AND FROZEN WITHIN TWO HOURS AFTER IT IS PICKED.
We have obtained excellent results using a specific process and enjoy sweet white corn on the cob year around.
We prefer Silver Queen super sweet hybrid.
As a test, my wife gave me two ears of sweet white corn, one fresh from the garden and one harvested and frozen the year before. There was a very slight difference in texture and otherwise they were identical.
Here's a brief summary of the process:
Pick the corn early in the morning. Pick ears before they become overly mature. This is important!
Have everything ready before you pick the corn. This is very important!
Cut off the stem and tip ends and remove the husk and silk. Reject any blemished ears
Drop the ears into boiling water, all at the same time and leave them for three minutes. The time is important, use a clock or accurate timer. You will need a very large metal pot and a robust source of heat for this step.
Pour off the boiling water and immediately put all the ears into a bucket of ice water until they're cold to the touch. You will need at least one large bag of ice and a clean food grade plastic bucket for this step. We use two buckets of ice water it assure rapid cooling.
Quickly vacuum seal the ears, no more than four to a package and put them in the freezer as quickly as possible.
Do not put salt or anything else on the corn.
Don't forget to label the packages with the date.
Very nice and lovely for the community. Wish our drive thur did such a nice flower garden! 👍
How pretty. I wish our various businesses did the same.
Thank you for the beautiful dishcloths. I love it! I didn't open the package right away because I had ordered 2 things from Amazon, and they had already arrived. I told myself I needed to figure out/remember what else I ordered or I was ordering too much! Then it was from YOU! Thank you so much. Heidi
Glad your package arrived, Heidi.
The luau today was so good. I came home tired after my class so I was certainly glad not to have to cook dinner. I had never been to any kind of luau before - so not a trip to Hawaii, but great nonetheless.
Here we go with 2 more Bingo words: CONE and WINDOW BOX.
For the geography game, let's try SQUARE. I haven't looked yet to see if there is a place here in NC with "Square" in the name.
RE: SQUARE, I did not find any city or town with SQUARE in the title here in CA.
There is UNION SQUARE in San Francisco....very well known.
Union Square, San Francisco
Sharon, I use garlic cloves from the store. I have not had a problem with them. I plant in Sept or October and harvest in Spring /Summer. I have not planted in quite a while....thanks for the reminder.