grsthegreat
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Just the thought of seeing, much less eating, 350 qts of cabbage would make me till up the garden and install concrete…….
I wondered about that too. A quart a day every day for a year.Just the thought of seeing, much less eating, 350 qts of cabbage would make me till up the garden and install concrete…….
Shooterdon, I imagine they would get bored at some point - and we don't expect them to work here and I doubt I would enjoy putting up 200 cans of anything. We don't need that - we enjoy what we do to the extent we do it, and prefer it to TV or sitting - a nice hobby with rewards. Our enjoyment comes from planning, maintaining and harvesting a garden for ourselves - we don't can but do make jams enough for a year and to give to friends. Froze a lot of fruit - great smoothies later. We also give excess produce to others. As for the grandkids, they live about six hours away and when they visit we enjoy seeing the our city-granddaughters enjoy the farm, which includes picking fruit and vegetables. If it ever became 'work' for us we would simply cut back or stop doing it.You have exceptional grand kids. Most get bored picking fruit at a fruit farm after about an hour.
Now...Have them do the work of preparing the soil, planting, weeding, harvesting and canning enough to put up 200 cans and see those smiles fade.
BTW One of my fondest memories was harvesting potatoes. If was like an Easter egg hunt in the dirt.
What store had this cheap veggy sale ? Haven't seen 5 for a dollar in 15 years.
Was thinking the same thing. Didn't even know you could can cabbage (other than as sauerkraut). I've found that it generally keeps until Feb. in our cellar (unheated, dirt floor) anyway. Not sure what I'd use canned cabbage in...we mostly use it for coleslaw or in salads. I'll put some in stews or when I do a corned beef, but I'm the only one who'll eat it that way.Just the thought of seeing, much less eating, 350 qts of cabbage would make me till up the garden and install concrete…….
Just the opposite here, while she enjoys the harvest my wife isn't much into the gardening or preserving. That's OK, I don't mind doing either one. She does do a very good job with multiple flower gardens!My wife loves gardening so all I have to do is help with the more physical parts. This year we prepared an area I leveled last year and it was super productive. Peppers and especially tomatoes are so much better from the garden than even the farmer's market let alone the grocery store. So I encourage her to grow plenty of those. She also does most of the processing and canning. Even canned they're much better than the premium stuff from the store. She harvested the last of the tomatoes a few weeks ago and some are ripening on the counter. Not as good as during the season but still better than store bought.
If she wasn't around I probably would not garden. I'm happy to help but I'm just not that into it myself.
How do you get garlic to grow in Vt? I thought it needed a much longer growing season than we have in New England. Greenhouse?OH! And if you enjoy garlic like I enjoy garlic. At $2.50 a bulb, the garden returned about $200 BUCKS worth ! ;-)