So far, everything’s coming along great
Our health has been wonderful and so has the weather. Will's been working at getting our gardens mulched and we've been weeding ahead of the mulching. But with four big gardens, it's sometimes a...
We knew rain was headed our way, so we planted, planted, planted
Yesterday was a butt buster, for sure. It was a beautiful, partly cloudy day in the sixties, but rain was forecast for today. So, both Will and I were very busy gardening. I set...
We got a freeze!
By keeping a close ear to the weather radio several times a day, we had three days advance warning of a widespread frost advisory for our area. So, yep, we got really busy picking...
You don’t need harvest season for lots of canning
I've been hugely busy lately. But it's a good busy. A great new friend, Pam, from the Twin Cities area, recently gifted me with a whole bunch of slightly dented #10 cans from a...
Oh my goodness! Where are the days going?
We've been hitting the gardens hard every single day now that the weather's changed into warm and dry. We are planting about 76 tomatoes every day, plus doing some corn, squash, and assorted other...