Q and A: Canning green tomato relish, Fall garden prep, and Pumpkin pie filling

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Canning green tomato relish I am trying to modernize a recipe from a 1934 Watkins Cookbook that makes the best Green Tomato Relish. Here is...

Our first petunias are up

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Hooray! I planted them on Sunday — that was fast! I really like the way we're doing the planting these days, keeping them next...

Nice weather equals busy us

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We've finally got nice spring weather with temperatures in the sixties and even seventies. So, guess who's working until dark every night? We're behind...

We finally got a Baltimore Oriole

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After weeks of waiting, we were finally rewarded by seeing a Baltimore Oriole in a birch tree off of our deck. He tried to...

The August garden

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