It is a good time of year to evaluate how all the work of putting up the harvest went. I discuss this with myself over on the D&B Supply blog this week! Maybe my musings will give you some ideas or just put your mind at rest about how you are doing things.
Homemade Sauerkraut with Chinese Cabbage from My Garden
I’ve thought about making sauerkraut for a couple of years, but it wasn’t until I found a giant head of Chinese cabbage in my garden this fall that I did. Well, I planted it there, so it wasn’t a total surprise. I had already used some of that head to make a FULL pot of corned […]
Tales of Tenacious Garlic in the Garden
One year, I had to leave my garlic and move to Taiwan for a while. It was not just my garlic that I left behind, but a whole garden approaching full harvest in early August of 2008. With a lump in my chest, but an eye on adventure, I left, hoping the harvest would be […]
Evaluating Your Interplanting in Your Vegetable Garden During Fall Clean Up
Fall clean up time is a good time to make notes on how your interplanting choices worked. There are some basics that help with planning in the spring, but results are also going to be affected by thinks such as: a specific variety of vegetable, exposure of a particular bed, the weather in any given […]
Black Tepary Beans and Purple Chicken Burritos
I finally found a dry soup bean that will mature during the shorter Southwest Idaho warm crop growing season. Seeds of Change is a company that specializes in organically produced, open pollinated seed. They particularly strive to offer varieties that are not easily found, in an effort to preserve the array of plant life on […]