The pin cherries are ripe
We've been watching the pin cherries on our ridge for several weeks, and finally they are ripe. The birds have been getting into them, so we decided we'd better get out and pick before...
This time of the year, I’ve got more plants in the tub than people!
I've ordered lots of trees and bramble fruits for our orchard this year; I keep seeing these things bringing higher and higher outrageous prices and decided THIS year I'd get the orchard booted up....
It’s the last of June and the garden’s taking off big guns
We've been having nice heavy rains, then hot weather. Just what the garden loves. Luckily for me, who doesn't love hot weather, it cools off nicely at night. Whew! The Bristol black raspberries I...
Well, it froze!
We'd been expecting a freeze and preparing mightily for it, but when we woke up to white on the grass, it was still sort of a shock. We did all we could, covering the...
Q and A: ripe squash, pectin alternatives, and liquid or no liquid in hot-packed...
Ripe squash
This year I grew Hopi grey squash for the first time. I noticed that the little curly que by the stem dries up, but the stem that the curly que is on takes...