I've purchased 19 dozen quart jars this year. That's 228 plus around 400ish that I already have on hand, though most are filled.
Today I finally got enough peppers to start half a load in the dehydrator. I'm trying to dehydrate green tomatoes to see how they will work in flavoring soups through the winter. I'm also dehydrating some black nightshade berries for muffin making later on. Normally, I freeze them, but I'm running out of freezer space. I really hope the green tomatoes work out, since there's so many that are green, on the vine, that won't ripen before frost freezing.
Here's what in this half load,
green tomatoes
cayenne peppers
jalapeno peppers
gypsy bell peppers
Hungarian wax peppers
black nightshade
I have tons of seeds saved from the hot peppers, but I ran out of gloves to separate them from the pith and bag them up for winter storage.
>>1122116I wish I could find a load of mushrooms like that. I'd have my dehydrator stuffed full. Are those furnace bricks?
>>1122602Hand picking them off is the first line of action of course. They will come in waves (emergences) which can give you a breather to regroup usually. Though, if you are in a really warm area and get multiple sets of emergences, they can overlap and screw you up. Do you have cicada killer wasps (Sphecius speciosus) or similar in your area? They will hunt many species of butterflies. I use them to wild harvest butterfly wings for crafts. They stung the butterfly, snip its wings off, and fly off leaving piles of wings under butterfly bushes. You can make areas of your yard into good nesting sites for them to attract females. (well-drained, sandy soils to loose clay in bare or grass-covered banks, berms and hills as well as next to raised sidewalks, driveways and patio slabs.)
