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Hi! Quick question. Do you know why the beet leaves are turning red? Almost as if they're bleeding kind of red.
You have my little red wagon! LOL
Are pole beans more productive than bush beans? I'm about to pull out the bush beans I planted because we just aren't getting enough off the plants.
I know some people move rabbits into the green house for winter as well as wayer troffs to help heat the green house. If you were to house animals they could live under your planting benches and have a deep litter to also ad heat. Just some ideas
I have been searching for the blue cook of my moms. It has our family green bean canning recipe. I grew up eating them and it is the only way my son will eat green beans. It has a touch of sugar and a splash of vinegar. When I buy canned beans I drain the liquid off and add a teaspoon of sugar and a tablespoon of vinegar and heat them and they are similar in taste for a commercial bean. The best thing about the bean recipe is they are water bath canned because the beans are blanched and a hot brine is poured over them, so it changes the ph to high enough for the "pickling effect" but not enough that the beans taste pickled. Mom always poured off the picking juice and cooked them in water but I prefered to use the brine and just heat them up. They had more crispness to them. I will find the recipe and share because it cuts down on the time needed for big batches. This is an old, 100yo family recipe.
Jess, I may have a solution to your green bean/kid issue. My brothers and I also disliked green beans. My mom took ham bones and knuckles from the butchers, and made ham stock, and used that to can green beans and any baby potatoes together. The flavor was phenomenal. You might give it a try. Also the left over ham bits from the stock making makes a yummy ham salad so nothing goes to waste. Even the dogs will love the ham bones, so long as they're from leg shanks and not the knuckles.
OK, I am hooked on your videos! So much information that I needed in one spot.. thank u!! 🙂
I did Contender green beans from MI Gardner. I grew a bed about 10 ft x 2.5 feet bed and I harvested a sandwich sized ziploc bag a day. So every other day I had enough for a meal (the veg portion) for 5 grown people.
I can't wait to see the WINDOW GREEN HOUSE!
Hi Jess I love watching your Chanel I am planning on growing green beans do you have a favorite pole type green beans
Build a greenhouse shelter for the pigs etc! Keep them warm!
Read grieve well n i felt as if i were there like a fly on the wall i hope u feel better n prayers to you n your family.
I am looking through some older videos as I only joined recently and I am chuckling over the window Greenhouse as now we are waiting in anticipation for the BIG reveal LOL
If you melt coconut oil and put green beans in with some salt, spread them out on a cookie sheet and roast at 400 degrees they are very yummy and very different from canned.
you can quickly blanch beans and then freeze them rather than can them
A lot of people are using frost cloth very successfully. Pity you didn't have a roll on hand. Re heating , I built a hotbed out of bales, filled it with manure and straw and it heated the tunnnel to 30 c through winter. I am concerned about cooling it in summer though.
I love the pregnant goat photo shoot. It warms my heart to see someone creative follow through on their ideas.
What a brassicas??
Green beans are my favorite
I enjoy going back and watching older videos like this . I love the way you look at things
I picked a handful of green beans the other day and I was THRILLED! I’m so inspired by you that after fifty years of only growing flowers I’m planning a veggie garden next year and I’m soooo excited!!
Bless u sweet Miah xx
I love home canned green beans. I live alone, so I'm canning for one. This summer I put up 17 pints of beans.
Watching these videos from a year ago and I'm amazed at how much you have accomplished since then! Rose planter by the gate, high tunnel, etc. Great advice to take the whole plant out to harvest from inside
I rarely comment on videos, but yours are truly something else! I got teary eyed in the beginning when you said "i love my garden". I could actually feel it and felt so much empathy because I love mine too and it's impossible to explain how much.
You know what is in the food – no unnecessary chemicals, harmful preservatives etc – nothing beats that! Small harvests I will chop up and make mixed veg to freeze for stews, soups, casseroles and stir fries. Nothing beats fresh food out the garden. That sense of pride that comes with it is priceless.