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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 455924" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Well, the first time around you do have the expense of the jars and equipment. And that can be rather steep. It's helping that easy child and I are sharing the cost of jars as most of our canning is being done together anyway. My mom paid for the pressure cooker so I didn't have that expense.</p><p></p><p>And for the garden.......it usually yields far more than you ever put into it. I use rain water for most of the watering, if it needs watered. My Dad always did it that way as he thought it better than what came out of the hose. And again, first year will be the big expense as the area has to be tilled, fenced ect. My dogs would be worse than rabbits or other varmints lol A garden fence will be necessary. After the first year, you pretty much toss the seeds in and go for it. </p><p></p><p>I'll be prepping my garden area as soon as husband's retirement funds show up, so it's ready in spring when I want to plant, just till the soil again. easy child is also prepping a garden, and no small one at that....and we'll have to do something will all that fresh food. lol </p><p></p><p>I want to do the freezing too, and may need too with the stew I make, same with the soup. husband and Travis would pout if I prepared it and they didn't get at least one meal out of it......which would reduce the amount I could can from it. </p><p></p><p>I expected this long drawn out complicated process. But honestly it wasn't. Figuring out how the cooker worked was the high point, the rest was easy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 455924, member: 84"] Well, the first time around you do have the expense of the jars and equipment. And that can be rather steep. It's helping that easy child and I are sharing the cost of jars as most of our canning is being done together anyway. My mom paid for the pressure cooker so I didn't have that expense. And for the garden.......it usually yields far more than you ever put into it. I use rain water for most of the watering, if it needs watered. My Dad always did it that way as he thought it better than what came out of the hose. And again, first year will be the big expense as the area has to be tilled, fenced ect. My dogs would be worse than rabbits or other varmints lol A garden fence will be necessary. After the first year, you pretty much toss the seeds in and go for it. I'll be prepping my garden area as soon as husband's retirement funds show up, so it's ready in spring when I want to plant, just till the soil again. easy child is also prepping a garden, and no small one at that....and we'll have to do something will all that fresh food. lol I want to do the freezing too, and may need too with the stew I make, same with the soup. husband and Travis would pout if I prepared it and they didn't get at least one meal out of it......which would reduce the amount I could can from it. I expected this long drawn out complicated process. But honestly it wasn't. Figuring out how the cooker worked was the high point, the rest was easy. [/QUOTE]
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