Q and A: planting cole crops and blight resistant tomatoes
Planting cole crops
For several years I have tried my hand at planting cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and brussel sprouts from seeds purchased from Baker Creek. Every year the plants are very small and most never...
Harvest is chugging right along
Will picked tons of Dragon Tongue snap beans, the third picking off that 50-foot row and I was busy for three days, canning them all up. Each day I got 28 pints! Our pantry...
Canning keeps on going on…
…but we're also still harvesting seeds. Today Ashley and I shelled two gallons of beautiful Bear Island Chippewa corn. I just can't get over how beautiful it is and how fat those colorful kernels...
Today I saw our first pussy willows!
Driving into town today, I spotted pussy willows out on a bush that is always the very first in the area. I always watch that bush as when they finally pop out, it gives...
I’m growing webbed feet!
And we thought we'd had our fill of rain. Ha ha. I'm glad we planted like crazy before this last rain. In a little more than 24 hours, we got seven inches of pouring...