Garden posting

Today I got my apple trees planted. Four of them in total. They are doing well but there is some blight on the leaves and they do attract the scourge of Japanese beetles. Which is not an unmanageable thing, but those ugly metallic brown and green flying insect things are not for the faint of heart. I literally have beetle juice stained fingers, often more than i'm comfortable with. There is an effective management strategy: go through your garden and pick them off the hotspots where they congregate, once or twice per day, in the cool of the day when they are slow and easy to get. Better pro tip: knock them into a light container of water and save yourself the guilt of crushing them; but then you'll have to wait as long as two days for them to most likely expire, which is also sort of troublesome.
I've also recently bought two blue spruce for which to plant as a screen in the front yard to provide some psychological protection off from the mean streets, which had led to an annoying retail experience while buying them and having to fend off an aggressive Karen clerk. I decided to not plant those two trees because they would grow too big. And so I returned them, and they told me that they weren’t doing returns because corporate policy and due to Covid! After a minor spat and some back-and-forth bickering, i ended up showing them that it said right on the receipt that returns were “within four days” and he had to take them back; and which he did, apparently at his discretion. If you have never worked retail, on the other side of the counter as it were, you may not know this: as a rule they hate you.

is it necessary to freeze tinned food?

It's easy for people to get a little worked up over the coronavirus pandemic. if you have amassed a cache of tinned foodstuff and are wondering if storing these goods in the freezer could extend their shelf life, the short answer is it doesn't make a difference.

The idea behind buying canned foods is that it shouldn't be frozen to keep it from spoiling

Canned foods will last long past the "Best by, Sell by, Use by" date that is on the can.  Notice that it doesn't say "expiration date".

Keeping canned foods in a cool, dry location will be tops. If any cans are dented or damaged in any way either throw them away or use them (as long as the can is not bulging or leaking). If stored properly, they will last a long time.

If for some unknown reason you want to freeze these items you will have to remove the food from the can and transfer it to a zip top bag or other airtight container. Leave room for expansion (this is why you can not freeze the food directly in the can it was processed in).