Q and A: source for nut trees and harvesting squash and watermelons

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Source for nut trees Could you help with a source for nut trees that would grow in the northern Midwest? I live in Illinois on...

We finally had our big freeze

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Sunday night, it dropped down to 27 degrees F. A clear sky made it inevitable. Bummer! Luckily, we had already rushed around and gotten...

The frogs are peeping

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On the very last day of April, both the woods frogs and spring peepers started singing all over our beaver ponds and in the...

What do you get when you cross a Hopi Pale Grey and a Marina...

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Nothing like you'd imagine! Hopi Pale Grey is football shaped with a "belly button" on the blossom end. Marina Di Chioggia is pumpkin shaped,...

Our new garden is now tilled and planted

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On Tuesday Will took the Ford tractor out into our new sand garden (now the official name) and began to till. The very back...