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Well, so much for that. The pressure canning broke down the mucilage entirely rather thsn intensifying it as I had hoped. For medicsl use things teally need to be pressure canned, so I'll have to try the "tea" version, and possibly a small amount of tincture. I suspect that vinegar or alcohol...

I have paper cuts and chicken scratches. That will be my first test. 11 days for 2nd degree burns to heal completely in animal testing. Like aloe vera, it shouldn't be used on deep cuts because it heals the surface and can leave infection trapped. And unlike aloe, we know the plant is...

I found some research that indicates the mucilage in roselle (tea hibiscis) is equivalent or better than aloe vera for healing, so I stuck the unripe seed pods in bottles in the pressure cooker as a test. Just putting them in hot water made the water get slimy and thick, so we'll see.

Pear juice finished and pear sauce in the canner.

First batch of pears cooling.

Same process as acv, just a different flavor. I put sugar in mine so it gets higher alcohol level and high acidity, but it's not necessary. You can use the mother from another batch, or it will delop its own, it just takes longer. The mother keeps in viegar. I have done acv, pear, and...

Sorted out the bruised pears and made pear jam. Trying to decide if I want to do another batch of jam (there's just enoigh cut up pears to do it) or make vinegar next. Once they start to ripen I'll do bottled pears, pie filling, and refill my dehydrator (my car) once the current batch is dry...

Consecutively.

Yes. I usually powder them if I dehydrate.

Hm...not sure this stuff is going to survive long enough to be bottled. Yum. At first I thought too much salt and too much hot pepper, but in cooking down it worked perfectly. I did double the brown sugar.

Ok. Apx 6 c cucumber, 2 T salt, 1 T pepper, 2 T brown sugar, 1 c green bell pepper, 1 c onion, 1/2 c hot peppers in vinegar so maybe a couple T vinegar. Cooking down now. Will need more vinegar likely, but I'll see. Hope it doesn't have to be pressure cooked, but I'll go by taste.

I've been using them in meals since they started to ripen. Today is cucumber, potatoes, green peppers and onions with eggs. I'm hoping to get ideas of how to preserve some of it. I have four more seed cucumbers out there. *edited to fix a mistake. I wrote zucchini rather than cucumber

Build a recipe My garden is running late--I had my first tomato sandwich of the season this week and I'm swimming in cucumbers. I pulled two of my seed cucumbers today, the seeds are in a jar, but I want to do something with the full grown cucumber. I've been doing watermelon and cantaloupe...

I don't know if it would work for everyone, but I ground up horseradish into a slurry and poured it in their holes, around plants I wanted to protect, and across the forecasted route. Usually took about a week for them to vacate for the season.

It may come down to importing native bees eventually. Ground nesting bees, mason bees. All I have seen in the last three years is carpenter bees. I've been pollinating my fruit trees with a paintbrush this year. Fine when it's a few blossoms on immature trees, but next year... I mow around...

This area has been mowed grass for so long that both pollinators and predators are in short supply. I need to have reliable flowers before I can expect either to return. It wouldn't be fair to bring in a beehive only to have them travel miles after the redbuds stop blooming. I'll be planting...

I spiked the search engines once by using the word parthenogenesis.

What is TEG? I don’t think ypu meant Thromboelastography.

I just hit the buy button at Experimental Seed Network. 🤦‍♀️