Seems like a good balance between power and portability

Thank you for the review!

Nice bit of kit

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What's the warranty situation? Looks like a pretty decent product. One I would invest in for sure if it can charge a "solar generator"

Living in Fla I am a fan of solar after hurricanes to charge usb devices. Not portable but I have solar panels from as small as 12watts to 40, 100, and 4 350watt panels.

I don't use portable panels anymore, but I still use the Sunjack battery charger, I charge eneloop AA batteries and it works great, those chargers are old and still work, so agreed they make good stuff.

Love Solar for emergency. I try to keep my Buletti charged and ready to go in case of a power outage. Nice review of these products I do like having a size to backpack with or take camping.THANK YOU!

Very informative review. I'm glad to hear about this product. I have some older Goal Zero "Boulder 30" and "Nomad 7" panels but the SunJack panels look very practical, and much easier to carry than the Boulder 30s.

Good review, thanks for sharing, YAH bless !

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A couple thoughts. I wonder if i can make a pill "snapper" that utilizes this technique instead of a knife edge. That would help with the arthritis and getting the medication on your fingers (without wearing gloves.)

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Seems like that NAPA bucket would be more appropriate for 5 gallons of olive oil.

Do you need to empty the bag into the bucket? Or could you just keep the bag full and put the whole thing into the bucket?

Fascinating how hardy these little buggers are. Great demo!

Talk about return on investment! Very very nice!

That's an unusually wide one, I haven't seen one like that before. Nice find!

Fascinating as always. The battle against the deer feels neverending. We finally built a tall feeder stand at the far edge of our property to keep them on that side of things and have our raised bed gardens right up against the house. Can't beat the squirrels though. The raccoons like the feeder stand too and I try to keep a variety of rando foods for them back there. The coyotes really liked the bag of dog food I tossed out there the other day. Unfortunately they're getting hit with mange so we have to keep our dogs far far away (not like we wouldn't otherwise but I don't need them rolling in mangy stuff). My Boston Terrier once tried to befriend a possum before I knew what she was up to. Poor little possum gal was fetal'd as expected but ran off as soon as I caught up to the blossoming (possuming?) friendship!

Good warning video. I'll have to get more paper bags for storage now thanks to Huples tips below as well. Your community is always so informative and helpful!

I never thought of this. I grew a couple varieties of lettuce this year, and one harvest was 9 gallon bagsworth of salad lettuce that I doled out to neighbors. But a lot was wasted. I wasn't able to use nearly as much lettuce as the plants produced, and I didn't want my neighbors to run into their houses and lock the doors when they saw me coming with more lettuce bags, so I learned not to grow more than I can conceivably use of that particular green. Super easy to grow, though. Now I am trying to harvest the seeds per the MIGardener method. Never thought of freezing Swiss chard -- I think that's a terrific idea. I may have missed it in the video but how exactly do you cook with the thawed portion afterwards? Just thaw it and season it and eat it as is?

Okay, if you're getting a 5# tub of seasoning it's GOT to be good. I'll look that one up. I wonder if you could mix it with sour cream and mayo to make a veggie dip...?

Thanks for this -- really useful info in these increasingly brutal summers. We really are having to adapt to a new climate these days.

Good tip , thanks for sharing, YAH bless !

I would also have no problem storing food in HDPE (No. 2) plastic buckets like yours 🙂

Yep , I guess its hard for people to get a grip on that ?

I do the same. I love storing in those 5 gallon buckets.

Yep. Anything under 10 years of storage I put in no 2 buckets.

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I’ve done similar tests with strawberries myself so would like to share. I’d like to point out a big difference in method however. You are taking a ‘growing plant’ in soil and putting a layer around it rather than placing an unestablished plant directly into the mix. Just to note that’s a very different test from what I will talk about here. I’m terrible for remembering to water, I planted about 30-40 strawberry runners in soil and a lot would die from dehydration .. oops! But of the survivors basically 100% would survive and grow on. This remains true in my control. And so the test... I mixed my heavy clay soil with the unused chemical including the cotton wool. Important to be unused as urine can burn roots and damage the plant. (always use well-rotted compost people!) The same approximate number were planted and I did my typical forget to water them. There were significantly less plants suffering from dehydration, but dehydration did appear to happen while the soil still felt damp. Of the survivors, here is where it gets interesting, only about 30% grew healthy. In the control I got my typical results of things dying to dehydration, but 100% survival rate of those that managed to push through. Aphids are a problem here but the control had slightly less, suggesting they were perhaps stronger but this was not very conclusive with the numbers tested. Analytical theory. Dehydration while wet. The polymer will hold on to moisture with a lot more strength than the soil making it harder for the plant to obtain water from the polymer material once the overall water % drops below a certain level. So with the polymer you need a greater over all water % in the soil for the plant to get the water it needs. While without, the plant is able to get water out of the soil when there is a lower amount of moisture around. Applying pressure aka poking your finger into the soil will release some water from the polymer making it feel wetter, this can be misleading making you think you do not need to water when you do. This explains why things looked unhappy while the soil still felt ok. However the plus is that the polymer dose enable your soil to hold more water than it typically would, meaning you don’t have to water as often. But please keep reading.. As to the increased number of failures, ouch! New plants are more susceptible to problems, strawberries especially get issues if the crown gets to wet. That is more likely to happen with wetter soil. It’s clear from experience that this is not just bad luck with disease to me. But I can’t pin the cause on anything with out a more scientific test. It could be they were too moist for too long that made issues, it could be they got less nutrients from the soil as a lot of the soil was replaced with a nutrient free gel, making them less resistant. Or it could have been chemicals from the gel itself breaking down. Or a mix of all of those and something else, I just can’t say and would be a fool to point to anyone thing. But the conclusion was that in my testing things were good but went bad pretty quick. I would not recommend anyone waste there money doing this myself. Not because I failed with it and not just for the long term environmental concern ether. There are free alternatives that just work better. Basically.. mulch.. if you cover your soil then the water cant evaporate as much. Likewise don’t use black pots in full sun, black absorbs heat leading to, you guessed it, more evaporation! I’ve seen people suggest sawdust as an alternative mix but this is basically un-rotted compost, so I’d suggest not to. A layer of damp wood on top of your pots or garden will do wonders however, I used cardboard a few times around my trees. Or for the simplest answer ever that lasts basically forever, sit the pots in a larger tray of water. Simple, reusable, works without risk. Perfect for getting strawberries going. So the verdict, don’t cover up the problem by trying to add more water. Fix the problem that is waste water by stopping the evaporation. A final note, don’t seal your soil in with plastic it can make the surface too wet and remove oxygen. Wood works because it can breathe letting air in while acting as a sponge trapping escaping moisture to release it later.

first time I used my all American, was freaking straight out because it was an off and on jiggle. Thank you for the video.

Good tip! Thank you! You can also do this technique with the pills inside a Ziploc bag. This keeps them more sterile if you are breaking up a few weeks worth of pills.

Not good.

I got stung over 100 times yesterday

Yes I've been hit with yellow jackets more than once harvesting apples

Can I process the pickle on day 7 by canning them?

Yikes... I let my dog out the other night and 6 racoons go scurrying off out of one of my plum trees. SIX! Last year it was a 300 lb black bear that got them all... Every single one... Good luck, i hope that sting didn't get you too bad.

Will have to try this method. I don't think I've ever had a "true" Kosher dill pickle.

Thank you so much! I was having problems with my All American loosing pressure so I turned off my canner and switched the jars to my Presto. It wasn’t jiggling. You saved me from throwing out a bunch of venison! Thank you ❤❤❤

My fermination pickles are always very soft. They turn to mush.

Do you do sweet pickles?

They are sofa king good too. Absolutely shocked how much I preferred them over their vinegar counterpart

Good morning, good overview, thanks for sharing, YAH bless !

I do know the sunflower leaves an seeds are excellent for our body’s so many vitamins and minerals also the oils are very good for us for a lot of skin issues

Why does everyone weigh everything, my grandma didn’t have anything and made the best stuff.

That gift certainly kept on giving! 🙂

Are. You concerned about the dyes from the colored bags

I think they need at least 3 weeks

You dumb ass ,you're still in north America, and soon thanks to stupid bloggets like you and Mikey from doesn't drive the globe .these beaches are getting overwhelmed. Dogs on leash ,beeotch