I’m just getting over the stomach flu and there’s a freeze coming!

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Ma Nature waits for no one. I'm just getting through a week long bout with the stomach flu and the weather radio is predicting temperatures in the 20s on Tuesday night. EEEKKKK! So we've...

The sun is slowly melting our snowbanks

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It's amazing how much better you feel when the sun is shining brightly, and the eaves are dripping steadily! Even more, my 3-year-old amaryllis from Walmart is blooming yet again — and I give...

Even though it’s going to be twenty below tonight, I’m starting peppers

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February weather in northern Minnesota can be huge swings between thawing and sunny, to blustery and sub zero. Tonight and tomorrow night, they're calling for the latter, dipping down to twenty below. Brrrrrrr. But...

Q and A: lettuce, beans, peas, onions, and garlic and canning curried goat

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Lettuce, beans, peas, onions, and garlic Does leaf lettuce and stinging nettle cross pollinate? I found both red and green leaf lettuce with stickers on the back of the leaves today. One is starting to...

We’re back in the deep freeze

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We had a nice week but now we've slid back into the cold. Last night it was -20 F. I do have to laugh though. I just finished cleaning out the freezer, packing all...