Q and A: pressure canner trouble and planting heirloom vegetables
Pressure canner trouble
I ordered a Presto canner and tried it out first to make sure I could keep the pressure at 10 lbs as required. I didn't have much luck. I did more research...
More building and a wood-fired hot tub heater
We've been busy building. We needed a shelter for the goats in their new goat pasture, so we are finishing up our goat summer cottage. They seem to like it just fine and have...
Our first petunias are up
Hooray! I planted them on Sunday — that was fast! I really like the way we're doing the planting these days, keeping them next to the wood stove up on a shelf and covering...
Nice weather equals busy us
We've finally got nice spring weather with temperatures in the sixties and even seventies. So, guess who's working until dark every night? We're behind as spring came late for us. We even had a...
Q and A: onions and chicken tractor
Onions
I let some of my onions go to seed two years ago, and last year planted those seeds. I don't know what type of onions the seeds grew from. Some, not all, of those...