Layout of new garden and Canning questions
Layout of new garden
My question concerns the layout of a new vegetable garden. There is a large, relatively flat area with full sun in which we want to start preparing wide beds for next...
Our sunshine continues
We are amazed at the sunshine we've been having lately after such a cloudy and cold, snowy November. It feels so uplifting to just walk around outside doing odds and ends chores. Will has...
Our first peppers are doing really well
After less than a week, the first hot peppers are popping up. First you see their "backs," the curved part of the stem that comes up out of the soil. Then follows the first...
And they say animals can’t think!
Our lab's favorite dish is one of my hanging basket pots. It's usually full of dry dog food. But when it got empty, Will taught Spencer to pick it up and carry it outside...
Q and A: pantry moths and glass-top stove
Pantry moths
In response to the reader asking about pantry moths, please let them know that cedar will repel them. We slice young cedar tree trunks into thin discs and place these on pantry shelves,...