War on weeds
Due to several reasons (excuses?), the weeds got ahead of us this year. I'm talking severely ahead of us! So as the weather has finally cooled down to tolerable, we are spending hours a...
Whew, it sure is hot
We're sweltering here with unseasonable hot weather and no rain. Just half an hour south of us, they had a good shower, but we only got to see the clouds. Will's between hay fields...
Q and A: learning to make cheese, dandelion syrup, and starting seeds in peat...
Learning to make cheese
I would really like to try a cheese making class. One where you spend the whole day or weekend actually making the cheese, not just watching someone do it. I live...
Today I saw $7.99 eight-pound bags of potatoes at the store!
Holy mackerel, $1.00 a pound for plain old potatoes that weren't that nice, to begin with. My heart just about stopped. My potatoes are doing wonderful, the plants being nearly up to my waist,...
I got the ProMix problem solved
A friend had told me that Menards had a potting mix called Sunshine #4 that she bought, and she really liked it. So, when Will and I were in Virginia (Minnesota), we went to...