We’re finally done haying
Will baled up the hay he cut down on our steer pasture below the goat pasture. And out of that used-to-be-swampy, brushy patch of ground, we got 50 square bales of beautiful birdsfoot trefoil...
Q and A: more peppers and planting saved seeds
More peppers
I was reading in your blog this morning about the problem you are having with your peppers having too much plant and not enough fruit. I have found if you put three matches...
Canning, canning, canning — ain’t it great?
With our heat and plenty of water from our spring basin irrigation system, everything is going great guns. I'll be canning green beans this evening and should be picking cucumbers tomorrow. It's all I...
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 transplanting continues
Yesterday I kept at the transplanting in the greenhouse, getting over 100 baby tomatoes transplanted. The weather's warming up and the sun on the greenhouse is heating the entire house all day now. That's...