Wow! A new variety of squash!
Several years ago my friend, Dara, planted a Hopi Pale Grey a few dozen yards away from a Marina Di Chioggia, a bumpy, round, blue-green Italian squash which is also a Cucurbita maxima. Yep,...
Q and A: Planting beans late, Canning meat, and Canning vegetable soup
Planting beans late
I have some room in my garden due to harvesting my beets. I'd like to plant dry beans; jacob's cattle, etc. It is July 21 here in Central Missouri and I'd like...
Sunny, warm fall weather lets us get lots done
Finally, finally, the rain has stopped. We've had four wonderful, sunny fall days. The leaves have turned and are all gold and red. Beautiful! Last Friday we had a pair of Whistling Swans stop...
Weeds, weeds, and more weeds
With hot weather plus rain every couple of days, our weeds are having a field day. We've been working hard to keep them under control. I've been running the smaller rototiller through the corn...
Will and Christian cleaned out the cow stall and yard
Taking advantage of the great weather, Christian manned the tough job of hand-pitching a winter's worth of calf poop and old bedding out of the old goat barn/cow stall so we could put Lace...