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...
Harvest time starts in earnest
Although we have been harvesting for a couple months now, including our asparagus and rhubarb, not to mention lettuce, radishes, pigweed, and lamb's quarter, our main harvesting started yesterday. I'd been watching the first...
Q and A: Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds and new canner
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
I am so excited as I logged onto Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds to get Hopi squash seeds. I will be getting some and I also ordered a catalog. I would like...
Q and A: canning beans, meat and soup, planting sprouted potatoes, and Nanking cherries
Canning beans, meat, and soup
I have a question about canning beans. How do you know when the beans are ready for canning and wouldn't swell in the jar anymore? I canned kidney beans and...
New friends are always welcome
You'd think, living way back here in the woods of northern Minnesota, we'd be isolated from human contact, at least to some extent. Not so. Especially because I write for BHM. A couple of...