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How Long Does Homemade Jam Last?
For homemade jam, using sugar and processed by canning in a hot water bath, you can expect to get about two years of shelf life when stored in a cool, dry place.
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Drying Mushrooms: Instructions for Dehydrating and Use Afterward
Add to Favorites Drying mushrooms is an easy way to “upcycle” your produce. While most foods lose flavor or texture after dehydration, mushrooms improve. Mushrooms have been eaten since ancient …
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How to Use Vinegar as a Natural Weed Deterrent
Add to Favorites By Becky Pederson – The history of vinegar is quite interesting. It is one of the oldest products used by humans dating back some 10,000 years. The …
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Gourds For Farmers And Homesteaders
Add to Favorites By Anita B. Stone, Raleigh, North Carolina There is a legend that says, “If you give or receive a gourd, with it goes all the best in life; …
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Make Room in Your Garden With Climbers And Crawlers
Add to Favorites By Glenn G. Dahlem, Ph.D. Farmers with 1,500 acres available and urban backyard gardeners alike often have the same complaint: “If I only had just a little more …
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Six Steps To Starting And Saving Heirloom Tomatoes
Add to Favorites By Melisa Mink, Homestead Moma, Mississippi If the first tomato of the year is something you long after, this is for you. Growing and saving your heirloom tomato seed is …
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Time For Summer Squash
When sunny summer days arrive, I think summer squash. Summer squash are low in calories (15 per half cup) and go with almost anything.
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Kohlrabi: I Grow An Oddball
Add to Favorites By Nancy Pierson Farris, South Carolina Kohlrabi: the oddball among vegetables I grow in spring. The word means turnip-cabbage. Like a turnip, kohlrabi produces an edible bulb. Unlike …
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Fast-Growing Plants For Impatient Gardeners
Add to Favorites By Armani Tavares For those of us who suffer from a chronic condition known as impatience, here are some plants that I can recommend growing. They’re easy, …
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Plant Pumpkins Now For Fall Faces Later
Add to Favorites By Nancy Pierson Farries, South Carolina If you want a Jack-o-lantern for Halloween, a big pumpkin for harvest season decor, or pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, you can …
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Heirloom Tomatoes Withstand the Test of Time
Add to Favorites By Anita Stone, North Carolina There has been a resurgence of interest in tomatoes in recent years, not the everyday luscious fruit, but heirloom tomatoes, a new …
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Growing Luffa
Add to Favorites By Carole West, Texas Did you know Luffa grows on a vine and not in the ocean? It’s true and the most common question we received was, …
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The Cushaw Squash
Add to Favorites Probably deep in the stages of REM sleep, my Tampa, Florida, friend MJ Clark suddenly woke up to the sound of a large object falling through a …
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Seeds, Anyone? A Look at Seed Banks
A seed bank is a depository, a storage place, a facility built to store seeds and keep them safe for an unseen emergency, sort of like a bank vault.
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Make Your Own Seed Bank
Add to Favorites Scrolls, skeletons and seeds. That’s what the discovery of Herod’s Palace in Masada, Israel, revealed. Ancient history, preserved for future generations. Scientists carbon-dated the date palm seeds …
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