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Eric Krewson:
I can take down the fence in the morning and deer will be in the plot that evening. My neighbor has an electric fence around his garden as well, if it ever gets unplugged the deer will be in it in no time. It is either the clicking of the charger that isn't there or they can sense when the fence wire is dead.
I have heard that pigs won't cross a place where an electric fence has been.
Eric Krewson:
Fun foraging today; I saw two trees on the TVA trail Tuesday that were covered up with oyster mushrooms. I had never picked oyster mushrooms before; I had never found them.
I didn't have a bag or bug spray on Tuesday so I went back today and picked two Walmart bags full of them. Of course, I researched them to be sure this is what I found. They have a raw oyster/licorice smell to them, kinda' funky but unmistakable.
Having never eaten them before, I sliced up a few, sautéed them in butter with onion, garlic, fresh ground pepper and salt. Just about the time the onion was done cooking I gave them a splash of dry white muscadine wine. The end result was the best mushrooms I have ever eaten.
I couldn't reach the higher clumps on the first tree, on the second tree about 1/4 mile away I found I could push up on the higher clumps of mushrooms with a long pole, they would come loose easily and fall to the ground.
These mushrooms will go bad in the frig in a few days so I am dehydrating one bag and plan to can the contents of the other bag.
Eric Krewson:
Electric fence follow-up; The first night the deer broke one strand of wire on the east side and stretched it in several places without breaking it, they usually have to hit it at night a few times before they get the message.
I filled a 4-tray dehydrator with oyster mushrooms, they take up very little space when dried. Here they are in a 750 ML jar, not quite a qt. Next to them are dried green tomatoes, I rehydrate these, bread them and throw them in when I am frying squash and okra together. I don't put them in the mix until the other ingredients are 90% done or they will burn. There is another jar on the right that has dried chanterelle mushrooms in it that I use often when I am cooking.
I canned the rest of the mushrooms.
YosemiteBen:
Daggone fuel pump went put on m wife yesterday. Nearly put her in the middle of the highway! Just a third of a mile from home. Started trying to change it! Dang Dodge people put it in so you cant reach nothing in the driveway. Can't get it high enough to do anything. Got the tank all loose. now I can't get the wiring connections loose, just not enough room to see anything. Guess I will ratchet strap it back together and try to get it to a shop..... dang part was 217$
GlisGlis:
I dry alot of mushrooms during summer (sun dried. not dehydrator )
I prefer to long term store them in brown paper bags instead of glass jars so they can keep drying if for any reason there are bigger slices of if they where overlapped during dehydrations
Brown paper also add some protection from light
My house is dry. I'd rather use glass jars in humid climate
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