QandA: Planting potatoes, Gnat invasion, and New to pressure canning

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Planting potatoes I was told by an elderly neighbor that I can not plant my tomatoes in the same place that I had potatoes last year. The potatoes did fine, no blight or problems last...

Do you ever have one of those days???

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Misguided people think that everything is always rosy and runs smoothly on our homestead. Ha ha! They should have been here today. It started out pretty normal. I was finishing...

Q and A: chicks not going in coop and squash and pumpkins crossing

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Chicks not going in coop We finally had our Mottled Java hen hatch a chick! After being broody and sitting for 3+ weeks. We usually get chicks and raise them in a series of enlarging...

Q and A: whiteflies and filling the canner

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Whiteflies I have just started gardening with my grandson. He has 5 pumpkin plants and I planted 6 Hopi squash. Each group are in their own 100 sq ft growbox. Our summer has been brutal...

With warmer weather here, Will’s back at work on our barn

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Because there's still too much snow to get to the sawmill and/or logs, Will's been busy using some of the lumber he cut last summer to frame up both upper ends of our new...