Q and A: Ball canning lids, pruning apple trees with fire blight, wine yeast,...
Ball canning lids
I was reading on the internet where Ball has changed their procedures on their new canning lids. It seems that you no...
It’s cloudy, but the rain stopped
Thank God! It's so much nicer to bring in a bounteous harvest when we're not wading through wet weeds (yep, we've got 'em) and...
Q and A: canning spaghetti sauce, canning potatoes, and cucumber beetles
Canning spaghetti sauce
Why is it okay to water bath can salsa but not spaghetti sauce?
Katie Gilbert
Milo, Iowa
You can certainly can spaghetti sauce without...
We got our first good freeze, and boy are we harvesting!
Despite falling off our barn roof, we still got a great, productive (although very weedy!) garden this year. Our plants outdid themselves. Before the...
Will and I took a trip to the back of the Big Pines forty...
It was nice yesterday so Will took me out to see a spot he'd discovered while making ATV trails through the dead, blown-down fir...