Q and A: Spaghetti squash, trimming tomato vines, and wrong canning time
Spaghetti squash and trimming tomato vines
The spaghetti squash is beginning to turn yellow. When it is almost ready, can I pick it early and let it ripen in the house? Also, some varieties of...
After a night of 20° F, now we are having Indian Summer
It always seems to happen that way; we work, covering everything we can with blankets, tarps, and whatever we can find. That buys us a few days. But then — like a couple of...
Q and A: Painted Mountain corn and canning grape juice
Painted Mountain corn
We can grow Painted Mountain corn in our short growing season here, too. It's one of the only breeds of corn I can dependably grow here every summer. The animals like it...
We knew rain was coming so we’ve been working extra hard
We live every day by our weather radio. We listen to it first thing every morning and the last thing in the evening. In this way, we have a pretty good handle on what...
It’s cloudy, but the rain stopped
Thank God! It's so much nicer to bring in a bounteous harvest when we're not wading through wet weeds (yep, we've got 'em) and leaves. I've been busy canning more sweet corn and another...