This time of the year, I’ve got more plants in the tub than people!
I've ordered lots of trees and bramble fruits for our orchard this year; I keep seeing these things bringing higher and higher outrageous prices and decided THIS year I'd get the orchard booted up....
Q and A: Stringless pole beans and pressure cookers not made for canning
Stringless pole beans
Every time I have grown pole green beans they have a lot of strings in the pod. I sure would like to have suggestions on a kind that is stringless.
Gail Erman
Palisade, Colorado
There...
Q and A: steam canning and drying cornmeal
Steam canning
Have you heard the latest news from the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP)? Last September, they announced that a researcher at the University of Wisconsin, in collaboration with the NCHFP,...
Q and A: sunflower seeds for chickens and storing canned items in a dirt-floor...
Sunflower seeds for chickens
I feed no chicken food to my hens. The only corn they get is people corn. They have never had any shots or medications. That said, can I feed Pennington's Oiled...
Q and A: growing corn for cornmeal and layering jars in canner
Growing corn for cornmeal
I am growing dent corn to make corn meal. I am not sure when to harvest and how to prepare the corn for grinding.
Daniel Jones
Cullowhee, North Carolina
Leave the ears on the...