Monthly Archives: July 2013
Q and A: fermenting cucumbers, pressure canning on a glass-top stove,...
Fermenting cucumbers
I want to ferment some cucumbers into pickles in my newly acquired crock. I don't have enough cukes all at the same time....
It’s been kind of dry so Will built some easy sprinklers
We've been using the tripod sprinklers for most of our watering around here for several years. Unfortunately, they're not so well built and they...
Q and A: tomato plants, moving canned food, pruning melon plants,...
Tomato plants and moving canned food
How do you mark your tomato plants so that you know which varieties produce what? I can't seem to...
Who said northern Minnesota was cold?
We've been having unreal temperatures lately; from 88 to 95 degrees with high humidity. Puff, puff, sweat dripping, pant, pant. It's hard to get...
Will got the hay in just before the rain
Will, Christian, and Eric worked in 90 degree heat to get a small field of very tall Reed canary grass baled into square bales....