Q and A: canned sweet peppers, mold in houseplants, and growing asparagus

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Canned sweet peppers Last summer I wanted to preserve some roasted sweet peppers by canning. I followed the method where you roast them, remove the skins and seeds, and then water bath canned them in...

Boy, are we happy to see the sun!

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And so are our goats! We just had two more "litters" of baby goats, twins from two does — two bucklings and two doelings. They must not have wanted to wait and see if...

It never rains but it pours

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Our area was so very dry earlier this spring, with the rivers and lakes down alarmingly. Then it started to rain! So far, we've had four inches in two days, another inch, then an...

It’s finished! Plants are in the greenhouse.

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Will installed the wall heater in the new greenhouse and screwed down the last board on the last bench. So on Saturday, I began carrying flats of tomatoes and peppers out into their new...

It’s still hot but we did get a third of an inch of rain.

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Planting is continuing every day as we have so much ground that is garden now. Our wonderful apprentice, Ashley, has been planting our overflow peppers in the North garden and mulching crops ranging from...