Juneberry is my first canning crop this year. Although I could have
canned some rhubarb. Rhubarb is always there to cann except winter and
that is because the fruit is the stalk itself. But a little rhubarb
goes a long way for me. Perhaps it is because the acid of rhubarb is
not as easily taken by the body as is citric acid of oranges. I forget
the name of the acid in rhubarb but it is not taken in the body as
citric acid.

So I canned some juneberries tonight mixed with some strawberries. I
pick them when the berries turn red, not waiting for them to turn black
and full ripe because the robins relish these berries and they can
strip them of fruit quickly.

But I notice on some of the juneberry bushes some leaves are turning a
brilliant orange color. Is this a sign of lack of minerals or nutrients
or a sign of a disease or just normal.

Archimedes Plutonium
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whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

On 6 Jun 2006 01:36:53 -0700, wrote:

Juneberry is my first canning crop this year. Although I could have
canned some rhubarb. Rhubarb is always there to cann except winter and
that is because the fruit is the stalk itself. But a little rhubarb
goes a long way for me. Perhaps it is because the acid of rhubarb is
not as easily taken by the body as is citric acid of oranges. I forget
the name of the acid in rhubarb but it is not taken in the body as
citric acid.

Oxalic acid

So I canned some juneberries tonight mixed with some strawberries. I
pick them when the berries turn red, not waiting for them to turn black
and full ripe because the robins relish these berries and they can
strip them of fruit quickly.

But I notice on some of the juneberry bushes some leaves are turning a
brilliant orange color. Is this a sign of lack of minerals or nutrients
or a sign of a disease or just normal.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Charles wrote:


Oxalic acid

Yes I thought it was oxalic acid. Sort of like tannic acid in tea.

I am not quite sure why some have proffered a thesis that some acids
are less than good for you. That citric acid is good for you but that
tannic or oxalic acid is less good.

It reminds me of the thesis that the body cannot digest much of what is
in "beans" and we emit as a gas rather than solid.

I do not like this newest and latest angle of diets and segregating
food into good acids or bad acids. Surely it would be bad if we took
only citric acid and not the other acids for a balanced diet.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

On 6 Jun 2006 10:21:46 -0700, wrote:


Charles wrote:


Oxalic acid

Yes I thought it was oxalic acid. Sort of like tannic acid in tea.

I am not quite sure why some have proffered a thesis that some acids
are less than good for you. That citric acid is good for you but that
tannic or oxalic acid is less good.

It reminds me of the thesis that the body cannot digest much of what is
in "beans" and we emit as a gas rather than solid.

I do not like this newest and latest angle of diets and segregating
food into good acids or bad acids. Surely it would be bad if we took
only citric acid and not the other acids for a balanced diet.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies


It could be that it is considered bad because it is poisonous. Some
effects are convulsions, coma, and death.