Soooooo....I normally grow giant pumpkins in my backyard as a hobby. I have a 1300 square foot garden. I kind of think this supply chain shit is going to get worse before it gets better, but who knows. Do you think I should grow food this year? Obviously I am decent at growing cucurbits....but what other vegetables should I consider growing?
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You can get into it for around 50 bucks with a water bath canner some jars and tools (jar tongs) and a Ball Blue Book of Canning.
It's great fun and the food absolutely tastes better. The salsa I made one year, while admittedly from bulk-bought tomatoes, tasted like you had just picked everything that day
I am not a canner, never tried it. Due to the upcoming, potential food shortage, I was thinking of canning. I would have to can produce from the grocery store. So could I can let's say red pepers?
Buy in bulk if you can from a farmer, peppers are devilishly expensive at the grocery store like $1/ea.
I'd have to check the Blue Book, I think peppers are not a high acid food so you would need to pressure can them or make something with vinegar or some other acid to water bath can them.
I found 25lb boxes of tomatoes for like $5-8 in season at farm stores.
The acid kills the botulism and other nasties when water bath canning. To can low acid things safely you need pressure canner which allows a higher temp than a water bath
I am on the wast coast and it is cold right now. So I don't think I will find much. Yikes I did not know anything about that other stuff. I saw some guy canning potatoes with just water nothing else.
Yeah DO NOT YouTube it there's a lot of idiots out there who will show you some half-assed methods that might work once in awhile but might also kill you.
Get the Ball Blue Book it's an annual magazine style publication about the size of Ideals magazine that for $12-15 will keep you from killing yourself or loved ones with nasty food borne diseases that thrive in sealed environments and can be odorless and tasteless
There's a lot of science to canning altho it's practical science but I always go by the book and in 20+ years it's never steered me wrong. It's kinda like rifle reloading. You can cut corners and get away with it until you cant
West coast cold lol