What was I thinking?
This spring, I not only planted two double rows of Provider green beans in the main garden but also three single rows in the Central garden. So I've been picking and canning beans every...
Readers’ questions from last post
Feuerbohnen beans
I have been given some Feuerbohnen beans that are from Germany. Do you have any info on how to pick, store and cook these beans? Any special instructions for growing these in the...
Three days of rain held things up here
After a summer of drought, we were glad to see the rain, but we were also chomping at the bit to get stuff in the gardens harvested before that dreaded fall frost arrives. We...
With winter definitely here we are planning our gardens
We've got serious snow on the ground and temps which are destined to see below zero this week, but Will and I are hard at work planning our next year's gardens. Like many of...
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 had a fire nearby. You couldn't even see across the...