The pumpkin and squash harvest is finished

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Saturday was sunny and nice, above normal temps right into the high seventies. Wow, was it a perfect Indian summer day! Robert, a young...

Q and A: canning with Splenda, slurry on the garden, and priorities for new...

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Canning with Splenda I've been a canner for my whole life and now must think about sugar intake. Have you had any experience with canning...

It never rains but it pours

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Okay, Will had his heart attack (and recovered), his cow dies, and our water line to the house froze. Then somebody bought up the...

Okay God, please stop the rain now for awhile

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My goodness, this year is sort of like a repeat of last year. First lots of rain, then none, then rain every day or...

We’re planting, outside and in!

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All of a sudden, we've got some warm sunny weather again, and I'm busy planting garden outside. Yesterday, I planted peas and snap peas,...