Q and A: making pickles, preserving squash, and growing squash

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Making pickles Do you have a recipe for making dill cucumbers with lemon juice instead of vinegar? It just sounds healthier, if it is possible. Nancy Hoppe Cinebar, Washington You could use a substitution in your dill pickle...

We’ve finally got nearly everything harvested and inside

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Whew! It's been freezing nearly every night so all the squash and pumpkins had to come inside. This year, we've put them all in the house. (Last year the cows got out and ate...

With our guest back home, we’re playing catch-up

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Of course, when you have company of any kind, everything switches mode from "normal" to "guest." And, when my daughter Monique, arrived, that's just what happened. I drove her all over our wonderful northland,...

We made good use of our “summer” weather

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We had an entire week of sunny, very warm weather and boy, were we busy. (We knew it would not last as it's too early!) While Will went with our neighbor to pick up...

In between rains, work continues

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We've been having a lot of rain lately, with a few sunny days stuck between them, thank goodness. Will pounded 104 T-posts in the garden to stake up the tomatoes we have growing in...