Noooooooooo!

[Sneezie]

:unsure: Oh my aching back oh my aching knees and oh my poor arthritic hands!!!! I went and bought bout 8 cauliflowers so I could freeze them for this winter. Well dh sees me cleanin them and I guess he thinks "hmmmmm the ole girl wants to can cauliflower"!!!!...............He goes and buys 3 HUGE BOXES of cauliflower!!!!!!! So you know what I did all day today plus did a wash and hung everything outside. I have enough hot pickled cauliflower to feed the troops again!!!...................Hey Digi and Clams thought you two had me fired like I asked? What`s goin on here? I am gonna really enjoy this trip to the beach, I need it badly. Yeah right if I ever get everything done round here to go. NO MORE CANNIN THIS YEAR FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!! <_< :mellow: I`m goin in hiding :ph34r: B)

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<span style='font-family:Geneva'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:orange'> !!canners
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[Sneezie]

:rolleyes: :lol: :D :rolleyes: :lol: Yeah baby I`m beach bound!!!!!!!!!!! :D :P :lol: ;)

[DandyLioness]

:lol: What a bittersweet story. Your DH made you work like a dog, but he was being so nice and thoughtful! :wub:

[grindle]

:unsure: well he was being thoughtful Sneezie, like a man does :lol: :lol: Get and enjoy the beach :D :D :D

[HarleyGal]

Head for that beach before he finds something else to can!! :lol:

We'll be at the beach, too--Sept. 28 to Oct. 2! ;) See ya there!! :D

[MrSeedy]

I have to fess up and say , my first try at cauliflower was a dismal failure, as the heads were all furry and funny looking and not very tasty?? I supposedly had the "selfblanching" variety that would have some upper leaves to shade the developing flower heads, but they looked furry or fuzzy anyway and sort of an off white with a tinge of yellow. Not very appetizing, but our summers are a bit hot to grow good cauliflower,, and our fall was hot and dry as well that year, so even a fall planting wouldn't have been good. I do think those "commercial" growers have some tricks for producing those perfectly smooth and white heads , and the average home vegetable garden enthusiast may have trouble getting those perfect "heads"!! Used to be the older varieties of cauliflower had to have the larger lower leaves below the flower heads raised and tied up over the developing flower heads to keep the sun from turning the heads green ( which of course is a normal response to sunlight), and that was called "blanching".

[Rich]

Just goes to prove my point. Whenever I try to be thoughtful I get it wrong and all that effort was for nothing so I have stopped being thoughtful and get bawled out for that. But at least it's less effort on my part.

[Sneezie]

:blink: Yeah Mr. Seedy my Dad used to pull the leaves up round our cauliflower when I was little and at home. His gardens were fabulous lookin things. He could grow anything!!!!!................He`d grow the garden part of it, and my Mom would grow the gorgeous flowers!!!! :wub: :wub: