With a frost warning, we worked like dogs for two days, harvesting and covering...
Luckily, we did have two days' warning before the expected frost last night. So, on Sunday, Will and I harvested tomatoes to save for seed, ripe tomatoes, green tomatoes, and tomatoes to use for...
The Wolf garden annex is almost ready to fence
Will has been busy working and re-working the ground in the new garden we've named the "Wolf Annex" as it is right next to the "old" Wolf garden. He's gotten all the rocks, boulders,...
After a lengthy drought, we just got three inches of rain and it isn’t...
We woke up to thundering rain this morning. It had rained all night and now, in the afternoon it's still raining. Gloomy except for we know that, finally, our drought of all summer has...
Q and A: Storing dry cereal, Dog food, and Pickled hot dogs
Storing dry cereal
Since I do not care for hot cereals, will dry cereal ie: cheerios, rice krispies stay fresh if I vacuum pack them in jars? Do you have any idea of a shelf...
Q and A: Canning pea soup, cleaning chicken eggs, and hamburger rocks
Canning pea soup and cleaning chicken eggs
I have 2 questions:
#1. I just canned some green pea soup. I followed the directions on-line for canning dried beans. My beans ended up in the bottom of...