Water seeds.
When the plants get big, transplant into some nice composted material and vermiculite.
Continue to water.
Harvest.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
How to grow tomatoes
Plant seeds.
Water seeds.
When the plants get big, transplant into some nice composted material and vermiculite.
Continue to water.
Harvest.
Water seeds.
When the plants get big, transplant into some nice composted material and vermiculite.
Continue to water.
Harvest.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Canning tomatoes
To can tomatoes, you'll need ripe tomatoes, basil, new canning lids and jars+bands
Wash the jars and bands in hot, soapy water and let dry upside down.
Get one large put (depth to accommodate the canning jars and one medium pot. Fill both with water.
Turn the medium pot on high heat to boil. Get one bowl of icy cold water. These will be used for blanching the skins off the tomatoes. Carefully drop 2-3 tomatoes at a time into boiling water and transfer to cold water bowl when the skin splits or after 1 minute, whichever comes first.
Peel away skin and remove stem. Place into large bowl.
Heat water in large pot. Squeezing out excess liquid from tomatoes , stuff into jars, adding basil between tomatoes (3-4 leaves per jar). Use the handle of a wooden spoon to remove excess air. Fill jar to about 1 inch from top. Thoroughly clean top of jar to assure a good seal. Place lid and band on jar loosely and continue until enough jars to fit in large pot are ready.
Place jars in hot water and wait for water to boil. Jars must be submerged. You will see air bubbles escaping from the jars. Boil for 5 minutes, assuring that no more air bubbles are escaping.
Remove jars and tighten bands. The lids should either be concave, or should go to concave as the jar cools. If it doesn't, you'll need to re-process the jars.
Wash the jars and bands in hot, soapy water and let dry upside down.
Get one large put (depth to accommodate the canning jars and one medium pot. Fill both with water.
Turn the medium pot on high heat to boil. Get one bowl of icy cold water. These will be used for blanching the skins off the tomatoes. Carefully drop 2-3 tomatoes at a time into boiling water and transfer to cold water bowl when the skin splits or after 1 minute, whichever comes first.
Peel away skin and remove stem. Place into large bowl.
Heat water in large pot. Squeezing out excess liquid from tomatoes , stuff into jars, adding basil between tomatoes (3-4 leaves per jar). Use the handle of a wooden spoon to remove excess air. Fill jar to about 1 inch from top. Thoroughly clean top of jar to assure a good seal. Place lid and band on jar loosely and continue until enough jars to fit in large pot are ready.
Place jars in hot water and wait for water to boil. Jars must be submerged. You will see air bubbles escaping from the jars. Boil for 5 minutes, assuring that no more air bubbles are escaping.
Remove jars and tighten bands. The lids should either be concave, or should go to concave as the jar cools. If it doesn't, you'll need to re-process the jars.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Linux auto updater reports packages kept back?
On several of my Linux computers recently, after performing an upgrade to the installed packages, I see a category called "Packages Kept Back" that has a few packages in it. Install upgrades nor refresh is able to install them. Perplexing.
The reason: I found a discussion that explained that the updater is intended to only update installed packages. When an update is released that requires installation of dependencies, it is "kept back" to keep the meaning of update pure.
The solution: Running sudo apt-get install on each of the packages kept back will both upgrade that package and install the dependencies, resolving the problem.
The extra-large hammer solution: Running sudo-apt-get dist-upgrade will also resolve these kept-back packages, but will upgrade your distribution as well (for example from Ubuntu 8-10 to Ubuntu 9-04).
The reason: I found a discussion that explained that the updater is intended to only update installed packages. When an update is released that requires installation of dependencies, it is "kept back" to keep the meaning of update pure.
The solution: Running sudo apt-get install
The extra-large hammer solution: Running sudo-apt-get dist-upgrade will also resolve these kept-back packages, but will upgrade your distribution as well (for example from Ubuntu 8-10 to Ubuntu 9-04).
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