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...
Those berries just keep coming on!
I've been busy making jam and syrup lately. Our three-year-old raspberry and black raspberry bushes are doing great. Oh yeah, you're not supposed to be able to grow black raspberries here in northern Minnesota....
Q and A: grafting pears and food-grade bags
Grafting pears
Have you used rootstock from Bradford pear? They are considered a pest in north Georgia. I have them coming all around my property. Two years ago I grafted an Orient pear into a...
Q&A: Transplanting tomatoes & Trimming tough hooves
Transplanting tomatoes
I tried transplanting tomato plants last year with little success. What vegetable plants transplant from indoor starts well and is there something I should have done to the tomatoes to help them adjust...
Reader’s Question: Seed exchange
I was hoping you knew of a good seed exchange/ seed swap either over the net, through a mail service or seed company. If not Backwoods home should start one.
David Kleis
Kennwick, WA
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