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...
Q and A: pepper plants and Amish canner
Pepper plants
I'm hoping you can help me with my pepper plants. I've planted several sweet bell peppers and jalapeños this year. Normally I have no trouble and would have been loaded with peppers by...
With unseasonable springtime weather, we’re hard at work
We've had sunny weather in the 50s and even a 60 or two. So we have this huge case of spring fever. (MUST dig! Must dig!!!) Will had finished his "new" furrower/breaking plow, built...
I’ve started plotting out our gardens for this year
Before the plotting, I'm still busy seeding out our squash, especially our favorite, Hopi Pale Grey. Will's whining for pumpkin pie made from it, so we'll see…
Even though we'll still be raising a bunch...
It’s been raining so much the frogs are complaining
It seems that we haven't had more than one sunny, dry day at a time for a month now! Our North garden is basically white clay and you can't even walk in there without...