Wow! A new variety of squash!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...