Q and A: growing gourds and drying Lima beans
Growing gourds
Do (can) you grow gourds up there in the Great White North? If so, what types? Is it possible to grow them in the Medford, Oregon area? I'd like to grow penguin gourds...
We’re planting garden in just about dust
But we pray daily for a good rain to get things going once it is planted. I went with our friend, Tom, who helped us so much after Bob died, when we were building...
So it’s January? We’re thinking of spring already
While I was canning up a bunch of hamburger, Will was clearing another patch of logged-over ground for a new pasture. This one is below the goat pasture, and when fenced, will give us...
Holy cow! Did you ever have one of those days?
Yesterday was mine! Our big refrigerator died, Crystal, our sweet donkey died, my computer died, Will's big tractor, with him in it, rolled down the hill and into the garden fence and the cows...
Q and A: Canning frozen vegetables, Pigweed and Lambs Quarters, and Dairy recipes
Canning frozen vegetables
Can you safely can (in jars) frozen vegetables (butter beans and purple hull peas that have been purchased from the grocer?
Betty Whitehead
Lumberton, Texas
Yes. First thaw them out, then warm them up to...