Q and A: heating with compost, dehydrator, and picking peaches too early
Heating with compost
I am wondering if you have ever heard of heating your green/hoop house with your compost pile. I have read about it, and it makes sense to me. It could probably be...
Can you find Jackie?
CAN YOU FIND JACKIE?
With the heat and rain, our tomatoes have run amok. Although I put the rows four feet apart, staking and caging the plants, you can hardly fish your way though the...
The first crops are coming up
My little new lettuce, spinach, radish, and onions are coming up. It's so exciting, as it's our first annual crop. We do have some walking onions up in the garden, which are great in...
We tried our first Theron’s Winter squash
And boy, was it a treat! First off, this squash is huge. Ours weighed 40 pounds. And the orange meat is so thick I had to have Will cut it open with Mom's old...
When everything goes wrong, bake a pie
Yesterday, Will was clearing an old pile of rotted logging debris out in the brush, up by the mobile home for a farm implement/assorted stuff parking area. We wanted it out of sight as...