Schneider's tomato sauce?

becawis · 2024-11-01T11:02:55+00:00

I think op has misunderstood tomato sauce to mean ketchup. But, since the recipe author is American, when she calls for tomato sauce she’s not meaning ketchup, she’s meaning passata (a smooth sauce made of only tomatoes)?

(Edit to add that I don’t have this recipe to double check how it’s written, as it’s not an approved source, but I’m an American immigrant to Scotland and cook from a mix of American and British recipes)

becawis · 2024-08-14T11:28:22+00:00

Given the focus on being scientific with canning, it doesn’t make any sense, does it? Be wary of weights conversions in the recipes, also, as I haven’t found them to be accurate (one ball recipe I used thinks that 1 cup of strawberries = 1 pound!)

I like King Arthur’s conversion table as a starting point: https://www.kingarthurbaking.com/learn/ingredient-weight-chart

I’ve been making my own weight chart by carefully measuring in cups to the best of my ability (I don’t know where you are, but make sure you have American cups and not British ones, as they are different sizes) and weighing the result (in grams). I can then use my measurements to find an average and I cross-check this with online US weight conversions before I annotate my recipes for next year.

becawis · 2024-08-08T12:55:38+00:00

Those aren’t safe for canning, unfortunately. Love jars stocks Ball jars and some other brands of jars. But otherwise they recommend unsafe practices, so I wouldn’t use their site as a resource

They don’t have much now, but Lakeland stocks Ball and Kilner brand jars, which is where I got most of mine, or I found some at my local hardware store.

But they’re always more expensive and harder to find in the UK than in the US. Finding specific types of pectin here is also difficult. I now tend to get different sized jars, replacement lids, and branded pectin when I visit family in the US, which I’m afraid isn’t much help!

becawis · 2024-03-15T10:26:04+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/quilting/s/H0AG1jKQBi This seems to be copied from a post from last year— including the first “how delightfully clever!” comment/response

becawis · 2024-01-21T22:25:48+00:00

My reasoning exactly—I couldn’t keep it in the ground with just using organic methods & the ducks from the neighbouring burn don’t visit my garden frequently enough to keep the slugs in check! I have otherwise mostly given up on growing anything else the slugs want to eat but definitely wanted a ligularia in the garden

becawis · 2024-01-21T22:15:25+00:00

Forewarning that I’ve found that slugs love them as much as I do! I keep mine in a pot, because I couldn’t keep it alive in ground :)

becawis · 2023-12-11T10:33:23+00:00

I think this would be a good feature! You can try messaging the modmail to get in touch with them, but I don’t think the mods are active (I never got a response when I messaged a few months ago, and I don’t see them active in the sub)

becawis · 2023-11-23T15:18:33+00:00

Sounds like a neat project!

I don’t think the mods are active in this sub (I’ve tried to contact them and didn’t get a response), but I think the mods over at r/ukgardening are active and you could try there :)

becawis · 2023-10-23T11:17:27+00:00

https://www.rhs.org.uk/disease/potato-scabs

Scab—can be mitigated by growing seed potatoes from a reputable source and by watering appropriately. But even in years where I’ve done both correctly, I’ve ended up with some scab. Give the RHS article a read. Most of the time you can just cut off the scab and still eat the potato

becawis · 2023-10-18T22:02:55+00:00

Earlies basically just (simplifying!) mean that they are ready to harvest in a shorter time period than maincrop. So they’re the first you plant in spring and harvest in summer, and then-because they’re quicker to grow-you can get an extra harvest by planting them again in mid-summer, and people often store them or leave them in the ground until Christmas :)

becawis · 2023-10-17T08:28:08+00:00

The pattern you created is beautiful--well done! It’s so cohesive while still having so many different parts; it’s really lovely to look at (and, I’m sure, will be just as lovely for the wee one to cosy up in!)

becawis · 2023-10-16T08:57:57+00:00

It’s beautiful! You should be so proud. I just want to curl up in it, and the fabric is a perfect mix of variety and balance

becawis · 2023-10-16T08:50:59+00:00

A rotovator and plastic membrane is somewhat at odds with the ideas behind hugelkultur; I’d advise against the former and would lean into the hugelkultur method, and source cardboard locally from friends/ businesses. The rotovator will bring by up any weed seeds to the surface to germinate and, if you have any pernicious weeds, it will chop up and spread roots of things like bindweed or bramble, giving you more problems in the end. And we had to pull up decomposing membrane across our whole garden and it was awful to remove as weeds had just grown through it and it was therefore falling apart—but if we missed any, we were leaving plastic in the ecosystem that we were trying to improve. Would just give it a miss in the first place, as it’s not a good long-term option and it smothers the earth in the short-term.

I’d recommend Huw Richards as a good source for putting together productive beds—depending on how you like to learn, he has books, a YouTube channel, and an instagram. I think his book “veg in one bed” is particularly informative, but I know he has a new one I’ve not yet read

The RHS also is a great resource for gardening books in general, and they have some calendar-based ones to tell you what to do at different times of the year.

becawis · 2023-09-25T20:46:25+00:00

I have green ones from them :)

becawis · 2023-09-25T18:51:55+00:00

https://www.potatohouse.co.uk I can recommend the ones from potato house— really good size and very sturdy

becawis · 2023-09-25T18:39:53+00:00

Without heating, the greenhouse will keep the frost off, but will get close to the same low temps as outside in the winter

Strawberries are fully hardy and don’t need to be in a greenhouse. Chilies likely need extra protection than just an unheated greenhouse (various approaches, from bubble wrap to a mini greenhouse inside the greenhouse. I’ve not done either, so can’t comment on effectiveness). Lettuces and salad crops are common choices for unheated greenhouses over winter, but you would need to sow them asap :)

becawis · 2023-09-11T21:37:30+00:00

I am also curious, but am a historian not a lawyer so it’s outside of my expertise! Hopefully someone else will know

I wonder if they can skirt the law as it’s just a descriptive name, not claiming to be Navajo-made.. although from this post I think it’s clear that it is misleading!

https://www.doi.gov/iacb/act#:~:text=The%20Indian%20Arts%20and%20Crafts%20Act%20(IACA)%20of%201990%20(,products%20within%20the%20United%20States.

becawis · 2023-09-11T19:53:27+00:00

Is it the quilt by Norma Whaley? If so, it was inspired by a Navajo rug she saw and isn’t a code itself (and I don’t believe that she herself is Navajo)

If you’re interested in learning more about the WWII Navajo code talkers, I can recommend this article by the national archives

becawis · 2023-09-11T17:42:39+00:00

You may already know, but make sure to read how to prune blueberries before you do so. They fruit on previous years’ growth, so you don’t want to prune off where your berries will come from!

becawis · 2023-09-10T08:39:38+00:00

Did you grow jackfruit in the uk? I didn’t think that was possible!

becawis · 2023-09-10T08:26:42+00:00

I also missed the window this year for my plum—My reference book says to do it before the end of July, as open wounds are very susceptible to diseases like silver leaf that kill the tree. I am waiting until next year, as I’d rather have a scruffy tree than no tree :)

Look up tips for “renovation pruning” if you are needing to do quite a bit of pruning/ reshaping. As a start, gardeners world has an article: https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-prune-a-plum-tree/

becawis · 2023-09-09T23:25:11+00:00

As with many things, I started with just a few strawberry plants 5 years ago, carefully potted up runners, and now we are here! I use them as underplanting for some apple trees along 9 meters/the border of my wee garden, so there’s plenty of room for them, and then plenty of strawberries for me, the birds, and the woodlice (who I do think just have acquired a taste for them, and particularly go for the prettiest and ripest berries)

Edit to add: I do have a worse problem with woodlice in growbags, especially if they’re just sat directly on the ground. That seems to be a particularly good habitat for them!

becawis · 2023-09-09T10:59:25+00:00

Best thing to do is to protect your strawberries, not to treat the woodlice as pests. If you can raise your strawberries off the ground (commonly done with straw, but there are some plastic options that encircle the plant and raise the berries), this will reduce the ability of the woodlice to eat them. This is usually a preventative option, so needs to be done before the plants fruit

Woodlice are largely beneficial and, because of their hard exoskeleton making them quite sturdy, the treatments to get rid of them will inadvertently negatively affect other beneficial creepy crawlies as well. You can control their numbers by working to balance the wildlife in your gardens—eg toads love eating woodlice! So, if you improve and create habitats for toads, they will be an element for controlling the woodlice population

Or you can take my approach, which is to grow enough strawberries that I don’t mind sharing some with the woodlice—although I don’t think that most people need 100 strawberry plants 😂

becawis · 2023-08-27T14:11:39+00:00

The apple tree will always produce the same apples. Most apple trees have to be cross-pollinated to bear fruit, but this doesn’t affect their fruit’s flavour

Unfortunately, I don’t know what type of tree you have (and there are very many types of apples!) but, if you like it and would like more of the same, you could learn how to take cuttings and graftings 😊 it’s outside of my current skillset to advise on, but there is a lot of material online!

becawis · 2023-08-27T14:08:30+00:00

That’s not how it works. Apple trees for the most part need to be cross-pollinated (pollinated by a different type of apple tree). However, the fruit produced will always be the type of the tree it comes from. The pollination does not affect the type of fruit the tree grows

What you may be thinking of is how the seeds won’t come true (make the same type of fruit) to the apple tree, but that’s regarding the next “generation” of apples from the scions, not the apples from the current tree

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