Winterizing The Garden

Winterizing The Garden

In November, my family comes up and helps me prepare my place for winter by cleaning gutters, cutting back foliage, making small repairs, and so on. They also help me prepare the vegetable beds for planting in the spring. This is what it looks like after we are...
Garlic Dill Pickles

Garlic Dill Pickles

    One of the many advantages of growing your own produce is being able to get the size of cucumbers you want to pickle, whether you love tiny sweet pickles, or sliced pickles, or anything in between. Making pickles is super easy!     Ingredients...
Staking Peas

Staking Peas

The peas are in, they’re beginning to grow, and… What’s this? I thought I bought “bush peas”, you say… So, you check the package and yes, indeed, they are supposed to be the bush variety and not the pole variety. What went  wrong? The peas are...
Composting 101

Composting 101

  Many people are intimidated by the thought of “composting”… They’ve heard that it’s time-consuming, space-consuming, smelly, attracts rats and bugs, and a PhD is needed to accomplish it, plus it’s downright mysterious. Nothing could be further from the truth,...