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Comments (11)Congratultions, Marcia. What wonderful gift. He'll be great boy, after all, born under the same sign as me - my birthday is Jan 2!!! Peggy, beware of holding off until later. I did that last year and it never did get really cold with lots of snow as we usually get later in the winter and then I did not get good germination for those seeds that need several freeze/thaw cycles, so I will be starting next week. I did not plan on doing lots of WSing this year - just want to replace a few things that I got tired of, but I promised a neighbour to do some planting for him. He has a new house and is single father of two, so he needs some help. Of course there will be my petunias - it's just a thrill to see what appears each year. Most of my planting this year will be devoted to peppers and tomatoes which I start indoors and lots of veggies which are either direct sown or spring sown. I am in the process of ridding my house of whitefly/aphids which were brought in by some pepper plants I hoped to overwinter. I have some'decoy' plants out and I have made my sticky traps and I hope that will take care of them. Will be touch... Northerner....See MoreHello everyone + some pics of my collection
Comments (11)Thanks for the great comments guys! I'm fascinated by caudiciforms and have only really started collecting them within the last 6 months. They make all my other house plants look dull! Dracenas, monsteras etc. Boring! @Kaktuskris The crassula has been repotted in a clay pot now. It was left out on a wall outside someone's house and left to die! I rescued it and it's thriving. I like it how it is. I love the woody stems!...See MoreMes Confitures - Your Recommendations
Comments (38)If by good gel you mean something fairly firm akin to the jell from commercial pectin, it's not going to happen with the Vineyard peach recipe. With that preserve the optimal result will in all likelihood be somewhat "drippy." That's because peaches don't have much pectin or acid, there's no commercial pectin, no apple jelly or other higher-pectin amendment aside from a little lemon to assist the set. European preserves like that just don't set to American expectations. You can firm that preserve up, but it will never really set any better; it's just that prolonged cooking thickens it up by evaporating out more water and changing the ratio of sugar to fruit in the preserve. But by then, as you suspected, it's going to have lost the freshness of flavor you worked so hard for. Annie describes that kind of preserve as "taffy." That's why the pear recipe calls for apple jelly. Pears are also quite low in pectin and without the apple jelly the best set will tend more towards the syrupy than the firm. In both cases you can improve the set by using 25% underripe fruit but at some point too much underripe fruit will also diminish the flavor. Carol...See MoreHello Fellow-photographers....It's been
Comments (5)Thanks Florentino, Alisande, Zitro(I like that you defined the type of names those are) and Konrad. I watch Lucien, 2-4 days a week and we still occasionally have Darius stay with us for week at a time-they live 2 hrs away. that'll probably stop when he attends school next year...I already miss the time we wont be having!!! sniff sniff...and mommy & daddy let us have Persephone a few days, that would be her 1st time away from them...Haha-she was good & sweet the whole time-until they came to get her. You ever hear that "while the parents are gone they are good and when they come back they take a turn around"-yep that was her!!!. lol......See Moremojavemaria
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