Q and A: Picking green peppers, cross pollination, and canning pumpkin soup
Picking green peppers
I'm in Kentucky. We're due for a hard frost this weekend. I have been harvesting my cayenne peppers as they turn red...
Fall harvest means piles of vegetables in the whole house
We have been harvesting like mad — tomatoes, corn, squash, and pumpkins — fearing a frost will pop up unexpectedly. And, as I'm going...
The “F” word strikes our garden — we had a freeze
We'd been dodging the bullet for a month now and as we listened to our weather radio two days ago, we cringed when we...
It feels like winter outside
Last night, it dropped to 19 degrees. Holy cow, and it's not Halloween yet! It is supposed to warm up again later this week,...
Q and A: chicks not going in coop and squash and pumpkins crossing
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...





