You never saw so many tomatoes in your life!
Even we are amazed and, I'll admit, somewhat daunted. (In our garden we planted 108 tomato plants.) A few days ago, frost was predicted and we went into hyperdrive. And, because of our little...
We are finally reaping rewards of our work
Friday, we had our meat back from the packing plant and Saturday, I thawed out two T-bone STEAKS! I baked some homegrown potatoes, then set our steaks on to fry. Would they be tender?...
Q and A: Canning butter and growing basil
Canning butter
I canned some butter over this weekend following the directions in your canning book. You say to simmer the butter to evaporate the buttermilk, left over buttermilk will make it taste bad. You...
Ladybugs are saving our peppers
Earlier this summer, we discovered we had a major problem with aphids on the undersides of the pepper leaves in the hoop house. To spray or not to spray? We debated this, but decided...
Did you ever wish you were cloned?
We've had a crazy busy week. Harvest, of course, is in full swing in between rains, which we've desperately needed. There are tomatoes both to save seeds from for our seed business, and also...