In between rains we’ve been working in the garden
Rain, rain, rain, UGH! I've had enough, already. But, hey, it's been good for the garden. We now have thigh high sweet corn, squash and cucumbers that are starting to run, and very nice...
Although the garden’s gone, harvest continues
With crates and crates of various produce crowding our front porch and entryway, I'm busy as can be, saving seed and canning up tons of food to line our pantry's shelves. Two days ago...
It’s pepper planting time at the homestead
While it's not really pepper seed planting time here, we have to get an early start as we have so many different seeds to start. We are going with 40 different peppers, both sweet...
We got our first good freeze, and boy are we harvesting!
Despite falling off our barn roof, we still got a great, productive (although very weedy!) garden this year. Our plants outdid themselves. Before the freeze, we'd already harvested and put up about four bushels...
Our heat spell continues
Our daytime temps are in the eighties and it's dry. So dry that Will has been able to get out and disc up our new corn and pumpkin patch, raising dust even!
I've got the...