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    From gloria p@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 22 11:41:45 2018
    Yesterday I went to store my new batch of apricot jam in the basement
    pantry. I found so many jars that should have been eaten, donated,or
    thrown out, dating back to 2002. I cleaned out the shelf, finding 51
    jars of jam, chutney, and pickles that were outdated, discolored, and
    just plain inedible. DH helped me empty them out into gallon ziplock
    bags which went into the trash. I suspect a lot of the apricot were from
    years when our trees had a bumper crop.

    The upside is that I now have 51 clean, empty jars to give away to the neighborhood beekeeper and a boatload of rings. (We threw away the
    lids, of course.) I still have cases of empty old pint and quart jars
    from the "olden days" when we had a big garden and the energy to preserve.

    gloria p

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  • From songbird@21:1/5 to gloria p on Sun Jul 22 15:26:08 2018
    gloria p wrote:

    Yesterday I went to store my new batch of apricot jam in the basement
    pantry. I found so many jars that should have been eaten, donated,or
    thrown out, dating back to 2002. I cleaned out the shelf, finding 51
    jars of jam, chutney, and pickles that were outdated, discolored, and
    just plain inedible. DH helped me empty them out into gallon ziplock
    bags which went into the trash. I suspect a lot of the apricot were from years when our trees had a bumper crop.

    :) i have a box of older jars of things i've not
    eaten which will get fed back to the worms this winter
    when i don't have as much natural forage for them
    to munch on.

    why not bury it in the garden?


    The upside is that I now have 51 clean, empty jars to give away to the neighborhood beekeeper and a boatload of rings. (We threw away the
    lids, of course.) I still have cases of empty old pint and quart jars
    from the "olden days" when we had a big garden and the energy to preserve.

    we're running out of quart jars already and haven't
    gotten started on tomatoes yet. a while ago we gave
    away many cases of jars full of goodies and rarely
    have any of those jars come back.


    songbird

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  • From Wayne Boatwright@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 23 02:05:39 2018
    On Sun 22 Jul 2018 10:41:45a, gloria p told us...

    Yesterday I went to store my new batch of apricot jam in the
    basement pantry. I found so many jars that should have been
    eaten, donated,or thrown out, dating back to 2002. I cleaned out
    the shelf, finding 51 jars of jam, chutney, and pickles that were
    outdated, discolored, and just plain inedible. DH helped me empty
    them out into gallon ziplock bags which went into the trash. I
    suspect a lot of the apricot were from years when our trees had a
    bumper crop.

    The upside is that I now have 51 clean, empty jars to give away to
    the neighborhood beekeeper and a boatload of rings. (We threw
    away the lids, of course.) I still have cases of empty old pint
    and quart jars from the "olden days" when we had a big garden and
    the energy to preserve.

    gloria p


    That's truly disheartening to lose so much, especially with all the
    labor and effort it took to produce it all. I've never canned or
    preserved a lot one time and, at worst, I may have lost only a
    handful to age.

    These days I only put up a couple of jars of one thing or another.
    We can't garden so I only buy just enough that I can reasonably put
    up and use.

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    Wayne Boatwright

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  • From Melba's Jammin'@21:1/5 to gloria p on Mon Aug 27 20:31:49 2018
    On 2018-07-22 17:41:45 +0000, gloria p said:

    Yesterday I went to store my new batch of apricot jam in the basement
    pantry. I found so many jars that should have been eaten, donated,or
    thrown out, dating back to 2002. I cleaned out the shelf, finding 51
    jars of jam, chutney, and pickles that were outdated, discolored, and
    just plain inedible. DH helped me empty them out into gallon ziplock
    bags which went into the trash. I suspect a lot of the apricot were
    from years when our trees had a bumper crop.

    The upside is that I now have 51 clean, empty jars to give away to the neighborhood beekeeper and a boatload of rings. (We threw away the
    lids, of course.) I still have cases of empty old pint and quart jars
    from the "olden days" when we had a big garden and the energy to
    preserve.

    gloria p

    Too bad you didn't send me a jar when you made it.

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