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HH~:
Yep i found some good American lids early this year and took em. My wife ordered some. Opened package that came other day when doing sweet pickles. I told her these look strange”. Then I looked , sure enough, China made junk. So, used them. Well, they looked weird even after the vacuum pulled em down. Anyhow, put em in cool cellar and a couple days later i hear ting, ting. I say “oh heck, thats those China lids pooping”! Sure enough. Threw that crap in garbage and grabbed the Balls.

Got another load of beets and pickling cukes to get done before We’re eyeball deep in tomatoes. When you run a good size garden it takes on life of its own. When items come in ripe they will not wait to get processed up “ when you got time”.

Im building a Apple grinder for cider. Got a 1/2 horse garbage disposal i will mount and plumb. Drop apples in and it spits into a 5 gallon bucket ready for the press! Easy. Need to get it wired up. Seen some summer apples that are getting ripe.

Shawn~

BowEd:
Well the lids she got are Balls and Masons so I hope they'll be ok.Both made in the good old U.S.A.

and Eric you do what you have to do to deter deer there and we'll do what works for us over here as I've shown.

PaulN/KS:
The deer don't give me too much trouble.
I gave up on sweet corn tho because of the coons.  >:(

Eric Krewson:
Coon solution that works every time, I have posted this before;

Before a low strand electric fence;

They got every ear, I trapped and killed 9 of them after the fact.



Coon fence, they don't know how to jump a low fence. I never had a coon in my corn again.



I had a coon get a few of my best cantaloupes last year, I have a great patch this year and am about to coon fence it as well. Hard to see but he is on the left side of the tomato cage I put over some of the other cantaloupes.

Eric Krewson:
Making fermented garlic dill pickles today, it appears this is the easiest way to make pickles. This is my first foray into fermentation.

The brine is 12 tablespoons of salt in a gallon of water, I added fresh dill, garlic, mustard seed, red pepper flakes and grape leaves for crispness.

These should be pickles in a week or so, I will put them in a jar and store them in the frig.

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