QandA: Planting potatoes, Gnat invasion, and New to pressure canning
Planting potatoes
I was told by an elderly neighbor that I can not plant my tomatoes in the same place that I had potatoes last year. The potatoes did fine, no blight or problems last...
From below zero to above 60 in one week!
Only in Minnesota does it go from sub-zero to 62 degreesin a week. We did have about 2 feet of snow on the ground, but today it's totally gone except in shady areas or...
Wow, today it warmed up to 1 degree above zero!
I drove to the post office to mail seeds this morning after chores, figuring I'd make a trip to the 25-mile-away town of Virginia afterward, to do a little shopping. Nothing major, you understand,...
Rain, rain, and more rain, but oh how the garden is growing!
We've had a month of warm, rainy weather. And because Mom was doing so poorly, I spent a lot of time at the nursing home...and neglected my poor garden. Now we're playing catch up....
I’m canning our first harvest of the year
Although we've been eating fresh asparagus a lot lately, our three beds are producing more than we can eat and doing it often! This morning, Will went out and brought in a big basket...