Q&A: Transplanting tomatoes & Trimming tough hooves
Transplanting tomatoes
I tried transplanting tomato plants last year with little success. What vegetable plants transplant from indoor starts well and is there something I should have done to the tomatoes to help them adjust...
Q and A: processing time for cabbage and headless chickens
Processing time for cabbage
I have a question about the processing time that you list for canning cabbage in Growing and Canning your Own Food. In my copy of your book, the processing time for...
Will’s been here a week now and I’m worn out
But boy oh boy have we gotten a lot done! You remember my pitiful orchard, carved out of a hill of old slash piles, boulders and stumps? Well, now it's cleaned out and mulched...
Q and A: cracked jars, stocking a pond, and animals on the homestead
Cracked jars
You've created a new canning monster! But in the last two canning sessions, four jars have cracked in the pressure canner. What am I doing wrong? This is the first mishap since...
We’re raising our own baby chicks this year
Every year, we've bought baby meat chicks to raise to butcher and have gotten real tired of them being so DUMB and hardly able to walk. It didn't seem natural. So last spring, we...