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I like to can. I have made baby food for my girls and it has saved a lot. Especially when they get to eating soft pieces of veggies. Instead of buying those tiny jars of diced carrots. I can them myself in pint jars. I have lived in OR and IA and now in IL. I have not found the same kind of prices for produce as I did at a local farm store in OR. I tried to grow a garden in IA but the deer ate it. And here I am in IL and I will try again with a garden till I find a local farm store that sells produce a little more reasonable. I remember in OR just 3 years ago getting five bags of produce for less than $20 just depending on what you got. Lori
posted by Lori on 03/28/2008 11:04 AM

I hear you there. I live in Indiana and always thought farmer's markets were supposed to be reasonable. A lot of the time I find that they are actually more expensive that the grocery stores in the area and one of them carries local produce even. I kind of started to try a garden last year, but being inexperienced it didn't turn out to produce a whole lot. Have some better ideas on what I should do and when this year and will hopefully get more produce out of that. I do know that I found some reasonably priced produce last year along the roads out of town that would have reasonably priced produce.... mostly done on the honor system with a lock box to put the money in so it is fairly convenient. Just a thought...
posted by Megan on 03/28/2008 11:21 AM

Even if the price is the same, I prefer buying produce at farmer's markets than in the grocery store because it's fresher. The farmer's markets around me are pretty reasonably priced. I don't can as much as I would like, but I intend to do more of it this year. I also grow my own tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. I didn't have a whole lot last year, but enough for the 3 of us. My parents have a grapevine at their house and we made grape jelly last year. That was fun, and it is so good. I haven't bought any jelly all year!
posted by Marcia on 03/28/2008 11:35 AM

Okay, this is going a little off of the canning topic but.... I have a grapevine behind my house and it doesn't produce anything. It is just a massive mess of leaves that has a bunch of weeds and other stuff in the fencerow with it. Is there a good way for me to go about pruning it or something to get it to produce?
posted by Megan on 03/28/2008 11:56 AM

Just clear out the weeds and make sure it has room to grow and something to hold on to. I'm not the best at gardening, so I can't tell you much more than that. Try a local gardening store or Cooperative Extension to get help with it.
posted by Marcia on 03/28/2008 12:02 PM

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