Hi joeworm, I�m not sure what you meant by "produce scraps," but yeah, you can do it. I blend up veggies for my houseplants two or three times a year and they love it! I don�t use anything too sweet or pulpy because that can attract fruit flies/soil gnats. Generally I�ll use something like a cucumber because it�s juicy without being too sweet or acidic. I cut the skin off (because the blended skin bungs up the watering can), blend up the soft body, squeeze the bigger pulpy bits out and dilute the juice with the houseplant water. I also use the green water left over from steaming veggies. I either dilute it for the houseplants, or pour it cooled, but undiluted, into the flowerbed. For outside plants, you have to be a little more careful about using blended stuff because the fruit/veg pulp can attract mice, rats, raccoons, etc. To avoid this, you can bury the pulp, or just compost the leftover pulp after you pour the juice onto the soil. I have not yet found a way to truly liquefy fruit/veg scraps (even with a Vita-mix!) so that the soil gets it instead of the neighborhood fauna. Maybe somebody here has a good idea about how to do that? Hope that helps, good luck!

Why? Would you consider doing that an advantage of some sort? It is just so easy to dump 1 T in each pint jar just as you do with all canned tomato products that require acidification. In theory, the end result would be the same. But in actual practice you can't assure even distribution throughout the food so you can't assure even distribution throughout the jars. And if you have any left over in the pot then all the juice didn't get into the jars. Dave

sure beats paying 5k for a sugarcane press, which someone i knew did. it's worth it if you love sugarcane though, and want to start a sugarcane business. i tried using my juicer....mixed results, i definitely got juice. check out my blog, i have it all documented, lol. next time, i will try using a Vitamix (one of those high speed blenders that will blend anything, even bricks). it's expensive but it's not 5k expensive. I hope it will work. now i just need to get my hands on some sugar cane.

I just have a question about Vitamix, since you brought up blenders. Do people really put whole fruit like oranges or grapefruit, etc in juicer/blenders like they show on QVC when they do the Vitamix sellathons? If so what about the white pithy stuff and the seeds? Also they sometimes put in whole peppers and the like. Are the seeds in these fruits and vegys just ground up beyond recognition and so you don't notice them? Does the white pithy part under the peel of citrus fruit give the resulting slurry a bitter taste? Just wondering.