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Gardening

jpak

(41,758 posts) Sat Sep 29, 2018, 05:41 PM Sep 2018

I just dug 30 pounds of red potatoes out of one of my 2 rows of spuds [View all]

If I get that much out of my "storage" potato row, I'll be set for winter.

Along with the already-frozen tomato sauce, cabbage, peppers. broccoli and kale.

and the 2 dozen hugh butternut squash still on the vine and the brussels sprouts((that the wood chuck saved for me).

I ain't spendin' no money on veggies this winter.

Nope.

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I just dug 30 pounds of red potatoes out of one of my 2 rows of spuds [View all] jpak Sep 2018 OP

re: frozen kale rog Sep 2018 #1

Steam chopped kale until bright green jpak Sep 2018 #4

re: frozen kale, thank you rog Sep 2018 #7

How do you preserve the potatoes? dawg day Sep 2018 #2

I put them in burlap bags and store them in the cool part of the cellar jpak Sep 2018 #5

How cool in temp should they be? NutmegYankee Oct 2018 #14

45-50 degrees F - right now they are upstairs in an unheated room. jpak Oct 2018 #15

How do you freeze your cabbage and peppers? Ohiogal Sep 2018 #3

I chop the cabbage, bake it on a sheet in the oven with oilive oil jpak Sep 2018 #6

my dehydrator has paid for itself many times over. mopinko Sep 2018 #8

We freeze lots of peppers by just dicing them and packing in freezer bags. They last a long time japple Oct 2018 #13

The oak trees in MI are loaded with huge acorns elmac Sep 2018 #9

My big canner is still in storage Bayard Sep 2018 #10

I just picked the last of my baby-sized watermelons today jpak Sep 2018 #11

Still getting the big ones Bayard Sep 2018 #12