work on farm

[mike p]

Thursday 11th
Well were making salsa today. Starting on the 2nd batch of  7 quarts per batch.
Tomatoes, onion, bell peppers from our garden the rest we had to buy.
Probably make a 3rd batch by tonight
Next time the tomatoes come off a week id guess well make mike salsa with jalapeņos
Last week I canned whole jalapenos & Nancy canned corn & French green beans, we got a Frencher hand crank bean slicer to french them with.
Had to take 3 cows to the vet for pinkeye a week ago last sat took one back again she will most likely be almost blind in one eye the othor one is completely gone. The other 2 are allright now I think I check on them most every day as there on the far end of place were the hot season grass is green , the blind black angus heffer is in the corral so she wont get lost or not be able to find water,
Took the sow to the butcher will be taking the 2 weener pigs to market sat I hope, the other 3 are probly 75 lbs now & growing good.
my hay bine swallowed a rock

[joasis]

Sounds like farming at it's best.

Now that we finally moved out to the new house, a garden is on my mind again for spring, along with tomatoes....for some reason, I have never had a problem growing tomatoes....and my latest interest is pizzas....so the next project is a wood fired pizza oven, and next year, making my own pasta sauce.

Now...what would make me really happy is taking some of the luck I always have with tomatoes and getting it to sweet corn.....because it seems we never get a decent crop of sweet corn, but this next year, with the timber sheltered area, maybe the summer wind will not scorch it out.

So Mike, do you have a good recipe to can sweet corn?

[mike p]

we just blanch it cut the kernels off & can it with salt works good
hard to get corn to survive this heat & critters eating there part

[Kirk Allen]

http://www.primalrights.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=3471