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http://www.durgan.org/URL/?RJSIZ 17 September 2012 . Tomato Juice.Sixty pounds processed Sixty pound of tomatoes was processed into 22 litre jars of pure tomato juice in two batches.Each litre of juice contains about three pound of tomatoes. The jars were pressure canned at 15 PSI for 15 minutes for...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?TKJQR 17 September 2012 . Garden Clean-up. Potato area rototilled to disturb soil bugs and all weeds were removed. the small amount of wood chip mulch was rototilled into the underlying soil.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?GXKUR 17 September 2012 . Storing seed potatoes. The potatoes are of superior quality this year, so some will be stored for the 2013 seeding. Reasonable size are selected and stored in individual paper bags and stored in as cool place in the dark at the back of my root cel...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?XZHCV 16 September 2012 . 214 pounds of tomatoes picked 2,5,9,16 September A total of 513 pounds of tomatoes was picked from about 32 plants over the season.Average 16 pounds per plant. There are probably another 100 or so pounds remaining if the weather holds with no fros...

GeorgeSalt wrote:Stick the residue into your next batch of soft-fruit wine. A bit of extra body from the pulp sticking to the seeds.

Couldn't have raspberry jam without the seeds, wouldn't be the same.

Try eating a fine spoonful of sand. It is almost identical to raspberry seeds, but probably not as sharp edged.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?TQYWH 15 September 2012 Raspberry Dessert Fresh picked raspberries were made into a delicious dessert. Weight was 30 ounces.The berries were put through the Champion Juice to remove the seeds.The output is a fine dessert, but may be North Americanized by putting a gob of c...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?OORHC 15 September 2012 Russian Blue Potatoes. Four plants added Four plants were inadvertently missed and are added here. The total harvest from 15 plants was 34 pounds or 2.13 pounds per plant average. Weight of the four plants was 1.10, 1.14, 2.8, 3.8.The number after t...

All potatoes are now harvested. http://www.durgan.org/URL/?RXHHH 15 September 2012 Russet Burbank Potatoes. Harvest of four Russet Burbank potatoes produced 9.5 pounds total, averaging 2.4 pounds per plant. Weight of the four plants was 1.10,1.14, 2.8, 3.8. The number after the decimal is ounces. Th...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?XCXOA 14 September 2012 Russian Blue Potatoes The remaining eleven Russian Blue potatoes were harvested. Twenty five pounds were obtained from 11 plants with an average weight of 2.3 pounds per plant. This is about average for this cultivar. The tuber is sort of brittle an...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?DXTRO 13 September 2012. Yard cleanup Yard clean-up for Winter begins in early September. Starting about three weeks early insures the clean-up is not undertaken during wet and cool conditions. The half dead shrubs are cut down and placed through the chipper/shredder.The s...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?RLTDZ 5 September 2012 Cranberry Juice Eight litres of Cranberry juice was made from frozen 4800 grams of frozen berries. There is little juice in the cranberries, therefore they must be processed with about one litre of water per 454 grams of berries.Cranberries are sales...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?VSUBQ 5 September 2012 Orange Juice
About 18 pounds of navel oranges from Chile was processed into five litres of orange juice, which was pressure canned at 15 PSI for 15 minutes. Annotated pictures depict the process.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?WWCQU 2 September 2012 Pilot Bread. Five whole grain. Pilot bread was made from whole grain wheat flour, flax, qunioa, sunflower, and poppy seeds.Pictures depict the process. To soften steam or place in the microwave for about one minute or both procedures. With moisture t...

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?SIVMS 27 August 2012 Mugicha Recently introduced to Mugicha,(Japanese) a tisane (beverage) made from roasted barley, it was decided to make my own.Pot barley was available, but I would prefer barley with the hull still on. The barley was washed, placed on a cookie sheet an...

That'll pucker your cheeks.. .. \ Not really. These berries are very ripe.Elderberries are sour if not thoroughly ripe. The berries have to be almost falling off the substrate and very dark in colour, evidenced by some off the berries having fallen off the cluster. Picking when unripe the juice has...