Q and A: Flowering carrots, Hugelkultur, canning meatballs, and squash soup recipe
Flowering carrots
I have a question about carrots. Mine are flowering BIG TIME. Some look like they are going to seed and some are just simple dainty flowers. The carrots with the heavy flowers have...
Q and A: Brooding chicks off-grid and pickled okra
Brooding chicks off-grid
Years ago I raised lots of day-old chicks using a heat lamp to brood them. I want to get back to poultry now that I am retired but my homestead is off...
Q and A: thawed berries and cooking Hope Pale Grey squash
Thawed berries
First, I absolutely adore you and have followed you for years. I feel like a distant but loving sister.
My freezer failed and some of the berries defrosted then refroze (we think...
Q and A: Acorns and silver tarps as mulch
Acorns
I enjoyed your blog on acorns. Just a tip: that brown yucky water aka tannin can be used to tan leather, to dye whites beige, as an astringent, can be frozen into ice cubes...
Roses in the middle of a Minnesota winter?
Yep. You see, my son, David, got me three rose bushes for Mother's Day this year. Unfortunately, they were Zone 5 tea roses and wouldn't survive here in northern Minnesota, in Zone 3, even...