Well, it froze!
We'd been expecting a freeze and preparing mightily for it, but when we woke up to white on the grass, it was still sort of a shock. We did all we could, covering the...
Q and A: canning partially frozen meat and double stacking jars in the pressure...
Canning partially frozen meat
My freezer went on the fritz, so I wanted to can up all the meat I had in there before it went bad. Now, because I had so much and was...
Q and A: saving seed from corn and water level in canner
Saving seed from corn
I planted a small patch of rainbow earth tones dent corn this year. I have it isolated from our sweet corn by over 100 ft, and the house is between...
Q and A: lettuce, beans, peas, onions, and garlic and canning curried goat
Lettuce, beans, peas, onions, and garlic
Does leaf lettuce and stinging nettle cross pollinate? I found both red and green leaf lettuce with stickers on the back of the leaves today. One is starting to...
It’s not snowing yet so Will and I are doing garden cleanup
It's cold and cloudy so we're trying to get the garden finished up and put to bed for winter. Will pulled the tomato cages and dumped the old vines into a couple of piles...