Q and A: growing cucumbers and thickening tomato sauce
Growing cucumbers
Why do the edges of the leaves on my cucumber plants turn yellow?
Loretta Howard
Plymouth, Indiana
Usually when that happens, either the plants aren't getting enough water during hot spells or you are watering with...
So much for our nice weather
After a gorgeous Indian summer, we're into north country fall rains and the four letter word: SNOW. Yuck! I vote to cancel winter this year -- anybody with me? We're still harvesting; this time...
We finally hit the all time snowfall record
It's official; this morning at 5 AM, Duluth, Minnesota, about 90 miles south of us, broke the all time snowfall record. Now, that's impressive, to say the least! We were secretly hoping we would....
Q and A: Using milk jugs to warm seedlings and canning ham in half-pint...
Using milk jugs to warm seedlings
Here in the Phoenix area, we plant and transplant our spring/summer veggies right around March 10-15, although some years late February is suitable while keeping a close eye...
The wind’s blowing up more snow
We woke up to lots of snow blowing hard against the windows. Ish! After nice, warm, sunny days this seems awful. But, hey, we do know March is a windy month, right? And we're...