To harvest winter squash for storage in a root cellar, wait until the skins are hard enough to resist scratching by your fingernail. Then cut them off the plant leaving 2 – 3 inches of stem attached. Let them sit in a room that stays between 50 and 60 F for a week or two. [...]
I just realized that although I was making videos this summer for YouTube, many I had forgotten to post over here! I’ll be re posting them although a bit late. I often look back at my garden videos in the late winter, they serve partly as a garden journal for me. This summer was the first in a long time that we did [...]
Compost tea is black gold for your garden! Compost is full of living microbes that help to build your soil and nourish your plants. But some times it’s inconvenient to apply compost to your plants through the season. If your plants are in containers, eventually the soil would reach the very top of the pot! But container plants especially need fertilizing through out [...]
Late getting this one up! We’ve all been sick here. Tomatoes are doing great, but we need rain so bad!
Oops late getting this one up! Everyone is moving slow in this hot weather. lol Slowly getting caught up on the weeds in the garden.
Finally the rain has cleared up! It’s been a long rainy spring the weeds have gone crazy. I’m working hard to get the gardens caught up. How are yours doing?
A bit late getting this one up. We are still getting a lot of rain here, really slowing down the gardeners and farmers.
Update on whats growing around the homestead. Still 4 weeks until our frost free date and the weather is rainy and cold.
It’s been a cold wet spring so far. We’ve been lucky to get a few nice warm days, but they are followed with a week or more of cold temperatures and rain/snow. Thankfully it’s been about a week or so since we’ve seen any snow! This past weekend we were able to get some work in the [...]
I can’t believe that it is September 1st already! This summer seems to have flown bye so quickly. In some ways it wasn’t quite the summer I had thought it would be. The year started off with heat waves in March, sooo not normal for us. Early summer was very dry, with gardens needing to [...]
