I didn’t realize when I was learning to can to preserve my garden produce, but the benefits of canning extend to my low sodium diet. One of the most annoying parts of eating low sodium is that every meal needs to be planned in advance. Gone are the days of fast food! Pressure canning helps […]
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Now that you’ve spent all your money buying the pressure canning equipment, it’s time to practice! I could just say “Read the manual,” but then I wouldn’t be able to write this article. The instructions here are for my [amazon-product type=”text” text=”Presto 23 Qt Pressure Canner”]B0000BYCFU[/amazon-product]. But instructions do vary from model to model. For
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I’ve recently added another time consumer to the list of things I do: Canning. It started as a way to preserve extra produce from the garden, and has been very good at that, but really shines in giving me the ability to prepare some traditionally high sodium foods in a very low sodium way. Later,
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I recently had the challenge of installing ROS on a Beaglebone [amazon-product type=”text” text=”Black”]B00K7EEX2U[/amazon-product] running the latest Debian linux image. I won’t go into the details of why I needed to do this. Installing ROS on Debian, at least according to the ROS website, requires a source compilation and installation. I tried that on the board first, but
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The previous garden construction posts took from September 2011 until January 2012 to complete. With the irrigation, raised beds and pergola complete, the only thing remaining was to fill the beds with dirt. I found a place nearby that advertised their “soil food web” raised bed soil made up of 85% compost and 15% coarse
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Muscadines, like grapes, are vines that like to climb on things and really should be given a way to keep off the ground. I did plenty of research into the traditional methods of trellising muscadines, but really didn’t want to setup a wire system. Since the wires are in pretty high tension, and made higher
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The process of building the raised beds was quite long. Unfortunately, I tend to remember only after I’m done that I should have taken pictures. If you’re interested in the process, you’ll have to struggle through my writing. Once again, the process of building the raised beds started with the garden layout drawing. I used
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After the month-long frustrating adventure that was irrigation, I moved on to bed construction. That’s when I figured out that nothing would be easy or would go as planned, and I had planned thoroughly. I went round and round with bedding boarder materials. Landscaping bricks, red bricks, cinder blocks, cedar boards, pin boards, treated or
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There were a lot of things that went wrong in the garden construction process. That was really surprising and frustrating considering how much planning I did before I even started. I started the process of planning during the summer and created this drawing of our house and yard: This drawing evolved over time as I
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It’s been half a year since the last time I posted anything. Since then I’ve made a lot of progress on the garden in my backyard. I’ll go back through some of the steps I took. I started by working on the irrigation system. With the terrible drought we had last summer, there was no
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