I picked more black raspberries.
I made black raspberry jam.
I brewed another batch of tea for kombucha. I am going to transition my tea over to honey to replace sugar, so I started that process.
I would love to get some cattle panels. How to get them home from TSC... that's the hard part. I've seen people bend them into an arch and put them in truck beds and trailers. Hubby isn't so sure about that.
I'd like to get some square tomato cages. Like about 70 of them. :lau
I do have lots of garden uses for the round flimsy ones. I put them over my New England Asters as they sprouted. Those grow tall, and last year, a lot of the stems fell over. This year, they're contained in the tomato cages...
Re: canning lids. I bought some from here, and have had good luck with them. A few FTS canning tomatoes, but 3-4 out of 200+ is not out of line, to me. A tomato seed can get under the rim, there could be flaw in my (old) jar, or unevenness in the sealing compound.
I will not buy Anchor brand...
There are grapes on my vines for the first time! It's their 3rd season.
Yes, thank you. The reason to use the honey in the jam is so that I can use my berries and my sweetener. I did know that it'll lose the health benefits.
As for the sugar in jam? The rhubarb jam recipe I started with had an...
We just had a bee club meeting. It's even worse than that: The president of the club said, "Ask 5 beekeepers, get 8 opinions." :lau
Congratulations! How'd it go?
Our bee meeting was about treating for varroa. We'll be using Formic Pro in a few weeks, ASSUMING!!! the temps drop to more normal...