Q and A: canned milk separating, cabbage, and canning green beans

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Canned milk separating Just last week I followed the directions in "Growing & Canning Your Own Food" for canning milk. After I took the jars out of the pressure canner & they sat for a...

Winter’s over and our projects begin again in ernest

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Our last snow's just about gone and the temperatures are up into the high fifties.  Yes, we're going nuts with joy!  I started the big TroyBilt yesterday and tilled a few passes in the...

We may be in northern Minnesota, but we’ve already got tomatoes on the vine!

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Okay, okay, so the plants are in containers. I cannot tell a lie. When it was time to transplant the tomatoes and peppers this spring I planted a dozen in large pots. So while...

The waterline is buried and we are on to other projects

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Will finished burying the waterline after insulating it well. But even our heavy duty backblade just kicked rocks up when he tried to grade it nicely. However, his friend has a landscape rake that...

Freeze!

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Well, it finally happened -- Thursday night it froze. David came over in the afternoon after his college course was finished and helped Will cover what we could, hoping to save at least a...