Yep, I get sick too

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Right smack in the middle of deadline for the magazine, my mother being in the hospital for another bowel blockage (luckily cleared without surgery...

Q and A: fruit tree with thorns and canned rhubarb

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Fruit tree with thorns I was not good about labeling or keeping track of the fruit trees that I planted in my orchard. I have...

It comes every year, but it always hurts

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The FREEZE. Last week we not only had a frost, which we prepared for by covering all crops we could with plastic tarps, but...

Q and A: preserving figs and blossom end rot on tomatoes

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Preserving figs We have so many figs this year. I have canned figs, made fig jam, preserves, conserve, and strawberry fig jam. I am going...

Q and A: canning soup, pecans, and potatoes

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Canning soup I have a recipe for a "diet soup" that comes with instructions for varying it up with Asian, Mexican flavors, etc. It occurred...