The rhubarb is up!
Every spring, we search for the first little red rhubarb noses poking out of the soil above our rhubarb plants. And they're up! It's officially spring! It will be only a couple of weeks...
The Cook Area Garden Club visits our homestead
Thursday we hosted the Cook Area Garden Club for the second year. About forty people came and they were very enthusiastic about seeing what we were doing around our homestead. Although they came a...
We’re racing to get finished planting before the next wave of rains come
Will tilled the old pig pen with our Troy-Bilt and we planted our open pollinated Seneca Sunrise sweet corn, which Will has bred from hybrid to open-pollinated, and several rows of Howden pumpkin. The...
Harvest time has begun
We're so happy. Not only is our haying under full swing but I'm starting to can like mad! I've already put up two nice batches of pin cherry jelly with a lot more on...
Q and A: fertilizing fruit trees, canning peach juice, growing Bill Bean tomatoes, and...
Fertilizing fruit trees
We moved to a new homestead in Alabama this January. It is in Zone 8. I've planted peach, plum, apple, and pear trees. All are doing well and are 4-6 feet tall....