JunieBJones (JBJ)
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This years canning crop: Peach jam, mulberry jam, apricot jam, apricot peach jam, red wild plum jam, green wild plum jam & wild plum chablis jam....YUM!!!Ahh the memories of when I used to grow all kinds of stuff and can it! Back when I had a house and land, I always had a garden and spent countless hours canning all kinds of things. Then, I got into brewing beer and my kettle went from that canning kettle to a 15 gallon pot I made from a steel keg and fired it with a propane burner outside. Just for fun one day, I threw three bottles of my beer into a contest in Atlanta. It won first place.
When I sold the house and moved onto a boat, all my canning and brewing stuff had to go, but I did find lots of goodies in the basement walls when I moved. I used to hide stuff from myself. Some beers are better after they sit for a year, so I had to hide them to get them to age that long.
I don't see much canning going on around here or even hear of it. In fact, I've never seen a farm or anywhere where folks grow stuff, except condos. They grow LOTS of high-rise condos here. As I look out at the Miami skyline, I can count 36 cranes, and those are just the ones I can see along the shoreline..
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PLUMS!Willowpondgj said:This years canning crop: Peach jam, mulberry jam, apricot jam, apricot peach jam, red wild plum jam, green wild plum jam & wild plum chablis jam....YUM!!!
Tell me, do you know what to do with this? Our plum tree had grubs in them this year. They are just horrible, we are having to pick them up with the yellowjackets DAILY. You think you are okay then right near the seed there is a grub! Any idea how to prevent this? Last year we had great plums with no grubs, the year before I spit them out as they all had grubs. ???