Q and A: planting seedlings and non-electric range

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Planting seedlings I read your post this morning and in answer to using peat pots you included some information new to me. If your seedling is leggy you plant it deeper when moving to...

We were up early this morning

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Not because we're all that ambitious but because it was going to be 90 degrees today. We sure don't want to work hard when it gets that hot. But since we've got rain coming...

The beetles are here

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No, not the Beatles. These are Blister beetles, and they are eating the tar out of our potato vines! I first saw them when I walked the two 100-foot rows the day before yesterday. These...

Q and A: watering in hoop houses, blackberry syrup, and oven canning

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Watering in hoop houses and blackberry syrup Since we've had two summers of extremely hot, dry weather, I think the hoop houses might be the new wave of garden success for us. How do you...

Whew! We’re done haying … again

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Will helped out our neighbor, cutting a hayfield which hadn't been cut for two years. It was matted with dead grass which made cutting it tough. But he got it done, then baled it...