Gardening in a Kilt (Buzz Kidder Canvas)

[string]

Ah, I am not married and live alone. On the other hand, I don't smoke or drink. Guess I'm free to garden all I want in my kilt.

In another thread, we were talking a bit about growing pineapples. I think I will start growing them again. MMM pineapple marmalade.

I have had pineapple jelly, probably technically marmalade, but I was in Costa Rica and it was translated as Jelly. It was excellent, as was the fresh pineapple from the plantation down the road. We ate good there for being a bunch of kids on a mission trip.

[Bugbear]

I have had pineapple jelly, probably technically marmalade, but I was in Costa Rica and it was translated as Jelly. It was excellent, as was the fresh pineapple from the plantation down the road. We ate good there for being a bunch of kids on a mission trip.

Hi String, I think the Brits are the only ones that require Marmalade to include orange rines, and I have heard of this big battle going on over it because of the EU rules or something. I have no idea of any of that.

However, I have had marmalade and jellies with chunks of pineapples in them. MMMM, quite yummy. My friend, who is making the marmalade, puts it on pancakes because she can't eat maple sirip stuff. I would guess that Costa Rica is quite fruity, LOL! There a lot of people living around me that are into canning and so on, and all that jelly and stuff is a huge huge deal.

[string]

I would very much like to learn how to can, my mom hasn't done it for years. It's one thing that I feel should wait until I have a real kitchen though.

[Bugbear]

I would very much like to learn how to can, my mom hasn't done it for years. It's one thing that I feel should wait until I have a real kitchen though.

A real kitchen... You will need a big kitchen with tons of counter space. It is a bit of a mess . I guess you could do one can (jar) at a time, but it doesn't always work out that way, LOL. I always go to someone else's house. I hope to have kilted marmalade making pictures before too long.

BTW
My kitchen is not nice, I live in a trailer that is older than I am and it's all squeezed into a tiny space... Because of that and the six cats, I don't do any canning and stuff like that here. I can always freeze my vegies and stuff though.

*** I'm mostly talking about canning jellies and marmalade, but I did bring up vegetables it looks like. Vegetables and that type of canning require a pressure canner to be safely canned.

[BoldHighlander]

I would very much like to learn how to can, my mom hasn't done it for years. It's one thing that I feel should wait until I have a real kitchen though.

A real kitchen... You will need a big kitchen with tons of counter space. It is a bit of a mess . I guess you could do one can (jar) at a time, but it doesn't always work out that way, LOL. I always go to someone else's house. I hope to have kilted marmalade making pictures before too long.

BTW
My kitchen is not nice, I live in a trailer that is older than I am and it's all squeezed into a tiny space... Because of that and the six cats, I don't do any canning and stuff like that here. I can always freeze my vegies and stuff though.

My wife & I make and can our own salsa. At our old house we didn't have much in the way of counter space, so we just utilized our old kitchen table
It's slighty better now at the new house we bought earlier this past year.

[Chef]

Hi All, I've been doing all of my gardening in a kilt for the last week or so.

Hi Ted, I don't mean to offend but why bother? There is no practical reason to wear a kilt to garden over jeans. In fact as you pointed out there are things you don't want to do in a kilt while in the garden. Given that the kilt you are wearing would by a half-dozen pairs of jeans I don't see the point other than to say you did it. The kilt is a garment but it is not practical for everything.

[Bugbear]

Hi Ted, I don't mean to offend but why bother? There is no practical reason to wear a kilt to garden over jeans. In fact as you pointed out there are things you don't want to do in a kilt while in the garden. Given that the kilt you are wearing would by a half-dozen pairs of jeans I don't see the point other than to say you did it. The kilt is a garment but it is not practical for everything.

Hi Chef, it is quite delightful hopping around my garden in a kilt. I guess I just enjoy it, and there are... comforts that the kilt provides that pants do not.

Also, um... it's easier to take the kilt off than the overalls... either of which come off usually when I come in from working in the garden.


As far as the cost of pants to the cost of BK kilt... Live by the coin; die by the coin.

[way2fractious]

The kilt is a garment but it is not practical for everything.

Agreed, but the exceptions are relatively few.

There is no practical reason to wear a kilt to garden over jeans.

Disagree. With the constant stooping, kneeling, stretching, etc., the kilt gives immeasurable freedom of movement as opposed to jeans. As mentioned earlier, either knee pads or the kneeling pad are needed for ground work.

{The Tale of Two Trees} Aerial work requires preplanning, however. Climbing and pruning a fruitless mulberry tree presented no problems with its relatively small branches. On the other hand, the enormous, old elm tree is going to require a climbing harness and something to protect the valuables when straddling and scooching along the very rough limbs.

Given that the kilt you are wearing would by a half-dozen pairs of jeans I don't see the point other than to say you did it.

From Buzz Kidder's website:

Buzz Kidder's Celtic Shoppe offers ... Casual Canvas Kilts from $112 with FREE SHIPPING

Other than the fact that someone else sewed the kilt (making it cost a bit more), canvas kilts are low-cost, low-maintenance, and low-worry for gardening and other greasy, grimy, gopher-hunting activities. My homemade canvas kilts are hard-wearing and see plenty of dirty labor before being tossed into the washing machine.

O.K.! - one doesn't normally touch up their blue denims with a steam iron before the next go-round - but neither do jeans have the élan a kilt has, IMHO.

w2f

[Bugbear]

Out here, we have these little ants that all swarm up your leg, wait a little bit, then start stinging. It's a lot easier to get them off your legs when your wearing a kilt than pants. They don't seem to crawl down into socks or hose...

Also, I use knee protection whether I'm in a kilt or pants. A big part of my garden is made of cacti and those types of plants.

I live in the brier patch, te he.

[Bugbear]

My wife & I make and can our own salsa. At our old house we didn't have much in the way of counter space, so we just utilized our old kitchen table
It's slighty better now at the new house we bought earlier this past year.

Salsa is a very good thing to make and can. Looking through my notes on canning, I would probably use a pressure canner for that. Any vegetables would be best done that way. The marmalade and jellies have a high acid content, and can be done with the boiling method... I just wanted to look that up so the information is alright.

String, hope you are able to can some stuff some day. I would say look up how to do it because it can be very very dangerous if the wrong bug is in there and stuff.