Oh my goodness! Where are the days going?
We've been hitting the gardens hard every single day now that the weather's changed into warm and dry. We are planting about 76 tomatoes every day, plus doing some corn, squash, and assorted other...
Q and A: true wheat seeds and planting onions
True wheat seeds
There is a lot of talk about the wheat we all use being bad for us. Can a person get the "real" wheat seed. If so where?
Susie McMillan
Powderly, Texas
There are several companies...
Haying season is heavily upon us
Now that the rains have finally come and gone, the forecast is for a week of warm, sunny weather. So Will is busy cutting hay. Yesterday he cut for 10 hours straight, doing four...
I’m being buried in peppers!
That's true, but we're not complaining. Our hoop house has made a terrific difference in our pepper-growing here on our northern Minnesota homestead. The peppers really love the warmer soil of the night temperatures....
We’ve got all our tomatoes in the main garden, caged and mulched
It's a big job, getting all our tomatoes ready to grow; first we pull the WallO' Waters off them, then weed each and mulch heavily. Then each gets a steel T-post and heavy duty...