• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    You will all eat VERY VERY well for about 2 weeks out of the year.

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      1 day ago

      Ya gotta pickle and dehydrate. Last time I had room for a garden I got the preservation and storage down in my last season.

      Buy a dehydrator, never make jerky in it, you’ll never get the smell out. Works great for beans, onions and carrots.

      There’s not much besides lettuce and tomatoes you can’t pickle out of a temperate zone type garden.

      I was eating well well into winter.

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        24 hours ago

        I have a 12-tray Cabellas dehydrator and have made loads of jerky. I even bought a slicer.

        I’ve pickeled, I’ve helped my mother can back in the day.

        I love my neighbors, but fuck no, that’s WAY too much work.

        At my last house I did hydroponic swiss shard. I’m thinking about cranking that up inside this winter.

        I tried lettuce, but could never get it to harden off. as soon as I plucked the leaves they just went limp, it was like they were inflated by the water.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      You will have 1 month where you struggle to consume way too much of one single vegetable every week and you will dread having to find different recipes to use ot all up.