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Pastimes : Gardening and Especially Tomato Growing -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: daffodil who wrote (473)	9/11/1998 8:38:00 AM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

Hi daffodil, Let's all take cover for Armageddon<gggg>! While I don't place a date on it, I do think there is somethin' weird on the horizon, not likely in our life time, but maybe our kids or grand kids, so yes, it is important to involve our young in these projects, so they can teach their young, I remember canning all sorts of things with my grandparents, and continued with my folks as I grew up, so here are some more ideas for canning(while I like freezing, and microwaves too, gotta' know how to preserve and prepare w/out electricity, or other conviences of our society.... you can can lots of fruits: peaches, pears, plums, apircots cherries, figs(strawberries, raspberries, grapes, blueberries can be cooked to a paste and canned. Just about all imaginable fruit can be preserved naturally with out the necessity of 'lectricity. Apples and some pears can be cold stored for months. Potatoes, all of the broccolli family can be cold stored for most of the winter at temps from 33-39 degrees. Carrotts store in moist sand at about 38 degrees. Theree is a ton of other stuff too, but I can't pull them to mind right now, if you're interested, I'll post more ideas later on. But here are two good books for the preperation of that day..Well I can't find them I'll post later this weekend. But you can grow grains, and yes beans are great to store too, but you need a considerable amount of land to do so, and they both keep well for a long time....bye, hope this helps get some ideas going. p.s. if you want to cook on a Coleman stove, better stock up on propane too, or get used to cooking on an open flame(which is tricky), or make a dutch stove- which is rather easy too :-)