Planting Potatoes: Fertilizing with Comfrey
Just a humble little tater… It’s time to get super busy!! We’re working on getting the front garden in and decided that the potatoes in the far garden just aren’t going to come up any more than they...
View ArticleOn your mark, get set-oh, good. We’re done.
See…they help! We finally got our garden in starting order…well, mostly my husband, but I helped in between this and that! Oh, don’t worry, when it comes time to do heavy weeding, picking and...
View ArticlePickled Cauliflower, Raspberry jam and pie, New opportunities!!!
We use a pitch fork, working both sides to loosen the soil, then popping the entire plant out of the ground The far garden is coming on and raspberries are toward their end, so canning season has come...
View ArticleSabbath For the Land
The potato row directly in front of me…tomatoes and onions to the right. So, you may (or may not) have noticed my lack of posts here lately. There are two reasons for this. One: It’s summer time. It...
View ArticlePallet Strawberry Planter
This post is sort of impromptu. A friend of mine asked my husband today how I built my pallet strawberry planter, and he told her that I surely put it on my ‘web page thingy’. So, I’m putting it on...
View ArticleFreezing Tomatoes the easy way.
Pick your tomatoes and put them straight into the freezer. The end. Really! My in-laws have frozen whole tomatoes for years, and I always sort of thought it was…how do I say it…lazy. You’re supposed...
View ArticleDIY Bird Feeders: Keep those kids busy!
What’s going on today, folks? We are making super easy DIY bird feeders, sure to delight your feathered friends! Not only will it help them weather the winter months when food is scarce, but they...
View ArticleSeed Paper: Our adventure in paper making and adding seeds
Good Morning! I’ve wanted to make paper for a long time. I sort of feel like I have paper, though, so using pre-existing paper to make paper just hasn’t been enough for me. Then I saw some paper...
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