We’re making hay while the sun shines
After such a rainy early summer, it has finally dried up. It's supposed to be sunny for a whole week so we're making hay like crazy. Will baled up two small fields with the...
Q and A: Stagnant water, No-mow grass, Butternut squash, and Canning three bean salad
Stagnant water
We are interested in putting in a pond but are concerned about stagnant water. There is no inlet from a spring or outlet from a stream. Is there anything we can do to...
Slowly, slowly, I’m getting better
It seems like yesterday when I got my knee replacement, but when I look at the calendar, it's been twenty days. Wow, how time flies! I've still got quite a bit of pain but...
I’ve got the spring cold — Yuck!
I guess it's going around; everyone I talk to either has it or just got over it — the spring cold. Nose runs like a firehose and cough, cough, cough. I finally went to...
Q and A: growing rhubarb and Zone 3 apricots
Growing rhubarb
Two days ago snow and hard freeze overnight, and now 70 degrees! I am growing rhubarb for the first time ever, and I see how the leaves grow but does it ever flower?...