The first of our harvest is starting to trickle in. Red and golden beets were on the menu tonight! This year has been a rough one for me in the garden world. My motivation to garden just hasn’t been there this year. I didn’t start my seeds exactly on time, I didn’t fertilize the raised… Read More Red and Golden Beets and Greens
Yeah, I told you I would keep you posted. I totally didn’t eat the over-wintered beets. I was worried that something might be wrong with them. I probably should have. I’ll bet they were fine. So, sorry about that. I will stick to trying to eat all the beets in the season in which they… Read More Over-Wintering Beets
Remember how I had a bajillion beets this summer? Well, guess who was too lazy to harvest everything before winter? Yeah, it was me. BUT I convinced myself that it was okay because I had heard that beets will last in the ground over the winter. So, technically, I am not lazy. I just have… Read More The Lazy Gardener – Harvesting Winter Beets
Did you know how easy it is to save basil seeds? They are tiny, but can be easily saved so you don’t have to keep buying new seed packets every spring. At the end of the growing season, let the plants flower (go to seed) instead of keeping the flowers pinched off. Then let the… Read More Saving Basil Seeds
Store the onions without weeping…mad scientist or kitchen genius? Okay. Admittedly not the best picture, but when your photographer is 10 and takes the picture at an upward angle, cutting out the actual onions in your left hand, this is what you get. A crazy, goofy, grinning mommy wielding a large chopping knife. Point is…you… Read More Stocking up the Freezer without Crying too Much
I am loving the first feelings of fall. Grandma passed on some apples – the sour Granny Smith ones, so I thought I would try my new dehydrator and make some apple chips. Easy and yummy and about the only way I will eat a Granny Smith apple. I just got a new Nesco American… Read More Dehydrating Apples
Guess what? I found a cool use for all those baby food jars I saved just in case. SEE? I knew I would end up using them somehow. Yeah, I know, that’s probably what the hoarders say about everything they have. But I honestly did put these to good use. I read somewhere a while… Read More Seed Storage