If you’ve ever canned anything, you know exactly what I’m talking about. After all the prepping food, filling jars, carefully lowering into the water and trying not to get burned getting the jars out, while they’re sitting on the counter, you start to hear: “Pop!” “Pop!” “POP!” It’s the sound of something done right, of [...]
Tags: BPA·canning·farmer's market·glass containers·Go Local! Challenge·preserving vegetables·produce·tomatoes
The last of the organic gardening series by Rene of Budget Saving Mom: How To Be Self Sufficient When You Garden: We try to be pretty self sufficient, and grow most of the fruits and vegetables that we use throughout the year. We also raise our chickens, guineas and ducks which provide meat and eggs [...]
The latest in the organic gardening series by Rene of Budget Saving Mom (part one of “the end”): Now that we have covered the basics of organic gardening and pest control, I thought it might be helpful to provide a how-to guide for different varieties of produce that you might want to plant. Get ready [...]
If you buy a hose-end sprayer, you will feel like a real gardener, I guarantee it. It may not guarantee good vegetables, but doggone you look cool spraying your gardens. (I’ve decided this week that I’m not growing peppers ever again – it’s cheaper for me to buy the peppers than the plant that only [...]
Tags: blight·gardening·natural pest control·organic·pesticides
What can I freeze? It’s a common question as gardens begin to be ready for harvest and Farmer’s Markets tempt people with bushel baskets full of gorgeous fruits and vegetables. One of my early posts here at KS was when I granted myself the title of “freezer queen”: 10 Easy Prep Foods I Always Have [...]
Tags: berries·food storage·freezer·preserving vegetables·produce·pumpkin·tomatoes·vegetables·zucchini
If you got your garden started off right, you may be harvesting lots of produce about this time. (If you live in the north country, like me, you’re still waiting on most things.) No garden yet? Sometimes it’s still less expensive to purchase a large quantity of produce from a local farmer, especially if it’s [...]
Tags: canning·gardening·organic·preserving vegetables·produce
It’s a nasty disease that got all the organic tomato grower in our area last summer. It gets every last plant. A few readers were worried about blight on their tomato plants when Rene discussed natural garden pest control. Since we haven’t discussed diseases in the garden yet, I’m interrupting Rene’s schedule and putting off [...]
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