Although it’s early, the pantry shelves are filling up
On Friday I picked another big basket full of Provider and Strike green beans. Holy cow are these ever productive! This was the fourth...
Fall rains have begun
After several nice, sunny days with temps in the high fifties and even sixty yesterday, we woke up to rain. Yuck. But we had...
Q and A: tomato plants, moving canned food, pruning melon plants, and fungus on...
Tomato plants and moving canned food
How do you mark your tomato plants so that you know which varieties produce what? I can't seem to...
Weeds, weeds, and more weeds
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...
We had really dense smoke for two days
When I got up at 5 a.m., everything was orange. The trees, the grass — everything. The smoke was so dense I thought we...