Q and A: frozen melon and canning hominy
Frozen melon
Our cantaloupe produced wonderfully last summer. My wife was able to freeze a bunch of it. My wife uses the frozen melon in...
Oh my goodness! Where are the days going?
We've been hitting the gardens hard every single day now that the weather's changed into warm and dry. We are planting about 76 tomatoes...
Blueberries are ripe!
I've been watching the wild blueberries since spring. Last year, after suffering that cold winter with drought and no snow cover, many of the...
Finally, after a week of cold rain, the sun comes out
We have had a summer with no summer. A friend I talked to today said yesterday it was 33 degrees early in the morning!...
Q and A: Sprouting beans and salty peach cobbler
Sprouting beans
What kinds of store-bought beans can I sprout?
Pete Triandos
Santa Clarita, California
You can sprout nearly every variety of dry bean. You'll have to try...