Q and A: spicy carrot pickle and pine nuts
Spicy carrot pickle
I have your book Growing and Canning Your Own Food, and your other books, but can't find a spicy carrot pickle recipe. Maybe you have one? Maybe something with onions and...
Indian Summer has come; we’re feeling great and getting a lot done
Slowly, slowly, Will and I are feeling better and doing more every day. Besides the "getting ready for winter" stuff, (canning, and building projects), I took time to get the log siding on the...
Growing herbs
Here's a summer photo of one of our mixed herb beds with broccoli and wild petunias for neighbors. We grow several types of basil, two of oregano, lemon mint, sage, tarragon, rosemary, chives, garlic...
Our lovely onions join our other pantry food
Our onions did so much better this year. Last year, most of our onions went double and many had soft neck rot, due to the rain and cold growing conditions. This year, we grew...
Rain, rain, and more rain, but oh how the garden is growing!
We've had a month of warm, rainy weather. And because Mom was doing so poorly, I spent a lot of time at the nursing home...and neglected my poor garden. Now we're playing catch up....