Have you seen the Glass Gem Corn?

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It takes quite a bit to WOW me after all these years. But I recently saw a mention of it in Farm Show and had to check it out. My-oh-my, what a beautiful and...

Frost!

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Yep, we had it -- a killing frost. With night temps dipping into the twenties, the garden got fried. Tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, beans, and corn look so sad, all blackened and droopy. But, luckily,...

The cows got into our pumpkin/corn patch

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Yesterday Will was bulldozing the horse manure in the horse pasture where we feed round bales all winter up into a compost pile. He noticed that the cows seemed to be too far north...

Q and A: Squash bug control, Air bubbles in canned foods, and Dividing rhubarb

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Squash Bug control I have more plants than I can efficiently hand-patrol apparently. Everyday I search and eliminate the eggs but every year it seems it's an all out battle to save the plants. I've...

Readers’ Questions: Cucumbers

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Hi Jackie- My question: We had a low water period this summer, & I took to watering the garden (usually watered manually via rain barrels) with “horse spit”- my euphemism for old horse water that...