Squash rotting, Canning sugar pears, and European canning jars
Squash rotting
We planted Blue Hubbard squash this year (1st time), and while the plants have a fairly decent yield, there are many (a lot!) of squashes that fail to mature. Some are quite small...
Despite frost advisories, we’ve started planting in earnest
We'd planned on getting started yesterday but Will came in from checking the cows saying we had a new bull calf. Sarge had found him, lying in the edge of the woods while the...
We’re taking out more walls!
You think we got a lot done when Will came to stay? Well this week, his son, Don, came for a visit from his home in Alaska. He is also a great carpenter and...
Our pumpkin patch/cornfield is coming up
Despite more than seven inches of rain, the seeds we hurriedly planted on our pumpkin patch/corn field are sprouting! We figured they'd all rot since the patch is not on high ground and is...
Q and A: fresh eggs floating, saving bean and pea seeds, and beaver forecast
Fresh eggs floating
I'd like to know your opinion on this or any insight you might have. A person who buys eggs from us complained that some of them floated when she immersed them in...