Q and A: drying beans and canning green tomatoes

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Drying beans I planted cranberry bean for the first time this year. The majority of them dried fine in their shells but some are still in green shells (even thought I dried them in dehydrator)...

Wow, today it warmed up to 1 degree above zero!

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I drove to the post office to mail seeds this morning after chores, figuring I'd make a trip to the 25-mile-away town of Virginia afterward, to do a little shopping. Nothing major, you understand,...

Harvest is chugging right along

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Will picked tons of Dragon Tongue snap beans, the third picking off that 50-foot row and I was busy for three days, canning them all up. Each day I got 28 pints! Our pantry...

Q and A: fruit trees and watermelon dying and red cabbage for Amish coleslaw

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Fruit trees and watermelon dying We planted fruit trees this spring. We have had a very dry summer, nevertheless we have watered the trees three times a week. Now the leaves of all the fruit...

Mid-winter but no cabin fever

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Sure, I'd rather have less snow and cold. But if our weather up here in northern Minnesota was milder, the whole state would be built up, elbow to elbow! Actually I find plenty to...