Q and A: lettuce, beans, peas, onions, and garlic and canning curried goat
Lettuce, beans, peas, onions, and garlic
Does leaf lettuce and stinging nettle cross pollinate? I found both red and green leaf lettuce with stickers on the back of the leaves today. One is starting to...
Gee, more blowing snow
Spring MUST be coming soon, isn't it? Anyway, today it's sunny and mid-thirties after six more inches of snow. A warming trend is headed for us but so is another winter storm. (Maybe it'll...
While I’m busy canning, Will and David get the storage barn roof covered
I'm still busily making different tomato products from the last 30 gallons of ripening green tomatoes that were sitting in my unused (yet!) new laundry room, trying to rot after they ripened, then sitting...
From 78 degrees F down to a near blizzard
Our weather is so Minnesota April. We nearly always get that last big storm, and I was hoping it wouldn't come this year, after we had a week of beautiful warm weather. Our family...
Due to the cold spring, we’re behind in planting
Behind, but daily getting more planted. We now have all of our tomatoes in the ground! Yea! Not all of them are mulched, staked, and caged, however. But we're slowly getting there — while...