Submerge them in brine for a few weeks. This creates an environment favouring lactic acid bacteria which will create pickling acid from the veggies that prevents mould.

You need to keep them submerged which you can do by putting a freezer bag full of brine on top.

It’ll release CO2 so if you don’t have airlocks you’ll need to seal the jars only loosely or burb them occasionally.

Haha yeah it’s great. It’s fast, portable, and has keyboard shortcuts from this century!

I have to say when I saw this headline I was bracing myself for AI “features”…

This reminds me of the book “Only you can save mankind” by Terry Pratchett. The aliens surrender once they realise the player is apparently immortal!

The yellow Lupulin powder is hidden inside the cones. You can only really see it when you peel the layers back.

You picked them with bare hands?! I wear gloves as the little hairs on the leaves and bines scratch my skin to shreds.

I can see why the “you’re spending too long on twitter” stuff seems a bit creepy but something like this would really help me remember what I was doing to prepare timesheets/ invoices! I currently have to wade through chat logs/ git/ file modification dates to try and figure it out which is a pain.

It might just be that they dried up in the hot weather. If so they’ll uncurl now it’s rained.

You might also want to check for ants breeding black fly on the underside. They suck the moisture from the leaves causing them to curl over. You can usually just scrape them off with a wet finger.