You know your married to the right person (and have been for a long time) when date night happily consists of chatting, laughing, and...

This past weekend, I pressure canned 8 quart jars of zucchini. (I know that pressure canning zucchini (cubes in my case) is no longer...

Today, we decided to grill the vacuum sealed boneless NY Strip steaks I had purchased from our local Kwik Trip for $5.99 each. I had...

Trying to figure out what to do with our abundant first harvest of cucumbers did not lead to many options. Ed will be fermenting a crock...

We didn't think we were getting any cucumbers. I had picked 2 cucumbers on Monday and hadn't seen anything further until I looked more...

As summer wears on, our garden is beginning to yield more produce. While we have dusted off the canning supplies, this is also the time...

Those darn varments! Something takes bites out of my best root vegetables preventing me from leaving them in the ground if I want to...

Everything happens for a reason. The older I get, the more I believe it. This is just a small example (I've got big examples, but...

"Make hay while the sun shines" I think the saying goes. Well... today I needed to make hay so to speak. Last night, after harvesting my...

While walking around the garden this evening, I found some broccoli heads (much to my surprise), some asparagus (again - surprise), and...

I started canning at 5pm today. It's 11:45pm now and I'll be retiring shortly. The plan was to only do one batch; however, I had enough...

Ed approved the purchase and even assembled my (Maggie's) new canopied "porch" swing. Why? Because I have always loved to swing and yet...

Our second salad of the 2022 gardening season complete with radishes. It's so exciting to this (former) city girl to produce her own food...

By the end of last year's garden season, Maggie and I were exhausted. We spent the latter part of the summer canning every weekend, and...

After several weeks of what has been the coldest, cloudiest, and dampest spring I can remember, we have immediately bypassed spring and...

This weekend, we crossed a boundary, going from solely raising plants to an addition of animals to the mix. While bees are technically...

Used Stock Tank for Raised Bed Gardening

Our last garden report for the year of the garden... The first part of October saw us starting to pull some of the more cold-sensitive...

It is hard to believe our garden has only been growing for four months. After our fool's spring, the garden got a foothold, survived a...

Maggie and I have very different approaches to gardening. I purchase a relatively small variety of plants and seeds, record where they...