All About Silkies, Nigerian Dwarf Goats & More
If you have backyard chickens, you probably get a lot of eggs and therefore, end up with a lot of eggshells. Do you have any uses for eggshells? What do you do with them all? Well, you’ve probably been just throwing them out.
If you have just been throwing your eggshells out, stop! We try to use everything on our homestead. And, there are several uses for eggshells that you can start with to keep from wasting them.
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There are almost as many types of peppers as there are people in the world. Well, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but there certainly are a lot of pepper varieties.
When you are thinking about the different types of peppers, first, you can break them into two general pepper types: hot and sweet. Both hot peppers and sweet peppers can be delicious, it will really depend on what you are using them for as to which general type of pepper you will want to use.
Then, within, each of those general types of peppers you have specific pepper varieties. A quick look online will tell you that there are upwards of 50,000 different pepper varieties!
Peppers are one of the easiest vegetables to grow. Since they are so easy, we usually like to add several types of peppers to our garden each year.
That means we get a LOT of peppers. We usually freeze peppers so that we can use them all year round.
With at least 50,000 types of peppers to choose from, it may seem a little overwhelming when you try to decide which peppers would be best to add to your garden. We always try to add a few sweet peppers and a few hot peppers since they are used in different foods.
Most of the types of peppers that we usually plant are pretty common – that way they can be used in multiple ways and multiple dishes over the year.
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Can you freeze spaghetti squash? If you can freeze mashed potatoes, and can freeze sweet potatoes then surely you can freeze spaghetti squash too!
Like so many times before, you may notice a theme here, we found a fantastic sale on organic spaghetti squash at our local market. So, as per usual, we loaded our cart with enough spaghetti squash to garner the standard “What are you going to do with ALL of that spaghetti squash?” from curious onlookers.
Afterall, creating a stockpile is a FANTASTIC way to save money and time.
“I’m going to freeze it and eat it for a year.” I let them know.
“Can you freeze spaghetti squash?” they ask.
“Well…”
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Can you freeze sweet potatoes? Recently, I asked myself the same question about freezing mashed potatoes. It turns out, not only can you freeze sweet potatoes, you should start freezing sweet potatoes. Why?
Not only does freezing sweet potatoes make frugal living sense. Freezing sweet potatoes makes time saving sense too!
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I recently asked myself, “Can you freeze mashed potatoes?” Because we found ourselves with an almost overwhelming amount of potatoes.
True story.
Recently, we were walking through the grocery store and we see they are having a HUUUUUGE sale on potatoes. Like a ridiculously good deal.
So what do you do when you see a ridiculously good looking deal?
You buy a ridiculous amount of potatoes, that’s what you do. Like, to the tune of fifty pounds.
This times A LOT!
(We had already known about freezing peppers and figured that you could probably freeze mashed potatoes also!
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Starting a garden can be fun and overwhelming. There are SO many types of vegetables you can grow, it can be hard to decide what types you should add to your garden. One veggie that no garden should be without is a good variety of types of summer squash.
Summer squash is a great choice for any garden. These squash plants are fairly easy to grow (unless you get the dreaded squash bugs) and they are often extremely prolific producers. There are several types of summer squash ranging in size, color and shape.
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