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I keep my tender herbs in pots, which I set out in the herb garden in the summer and in a south window for winter. I have a raised bed on the south side of the house which has my oregano, sage, chives, tarragon, lavendar, bee balm (oswego tea), and thyme. This year I added chammomile, lemon...

HI, I have many many peonies, all dark pink, almost red. I also have access to orange day lillies, the old fashioned ones you see near old house foundations. Both have gone dormant for the winter, and I don't know much about transplanting. Is it too late for this year? I'm near Albany, NY, and...

Sounds yummy - if you get a chance, I'd love to check it out. Thanks!

HI, It's pumpkin pie time again, and I have many, many seeds - my DH wants me to dry them in some manner, for eating later. Do I roast them, fry them, bake them, or what? Thanks!

Hi, I have leeks, and only one recipe that calls for them, a potato-leek soup, which is very good, but does anyone have any other recipes using leeks?

Earlier, I did the green beans, corn, spinach, zucchini, first planting of beets, and some tomatoes, so the DH did the rest of the tomatoes I had picked, and boy, was he sorry! Somehow we ordered the wrong variety of paste tomatoes this year, they're about half the size of the ones we've...

Yep, I did use canning salt, and I did use a dry measure. I also made a recipe I found on this topic for pickled Hungarian Hot Wax peppers, and they came out extremely salty, too. But those soak overnight in salt water, so maybe I didn't rinse them thoroughly enough... How much salt could I...

blurose, I made pickles from your second recipe (dill) and they just had their 2-week birthday. They were excellent, crispy, tart, dilly - but extremely salty. Too salty for me to eat, but my DH loves salty stuff, and I really made them for him, so it's ok, but did I do something wrong? I...

One day last week, I did 80 ears of corn, blanched, cooled, removed from cob, bagged, frozen. Most days now I'm blanching, cooling, bagging, freezing my green beans. Got three grocery bags of them in the fridge waiting for me. The paste tomatoes are ripening fast...we blanch them, remove...

Think I have everyone beat with my four Newfoundland dogs... I have drool on my ceiling! :P And Deacon the shepherd is just gorgeous! I'm not a german shepherd fan, due to what the "breeders" have done to their hips, etc. But he's absolutely beautiful! My hens stay in their run, so my...

I don't have dill in my garden (yet!), so any idea how much dill seed from the store would be a good starting point? I have lots of extra cukes in the fridge, want to do something with them before they go soft! Yippee for an easy pickle recipe!:ya

Me, too! Pretty please?

Zucchini, cukes, peas, escarole, romaine, and almost corn and broccoli.

We grew sprouts last year for the first time...they do seem to take forever to form, and ours were small - but last year was extremely dry here, so dry that the pond shrunk and we couldn't reach the water because of the knee-deep mud around the edge! This year, the rain has been better, so we...

My DH homebrews, too, and some of the kits he wants to buy are not made at present because of the amount of hops they require - the price of hops has skyrocketed lately. :( Anyway, hops used to be grown in my area, so I know they would do well, but do they tend to get out of control, or do they...

Hey, everyone, I repeat - anyone who wants the kind of sumac with the red berries that you can make sumac-ade from, I have tons of it. I'm happy to dig it and send it off, just let me know!

My mom's patch is at least 50 years old and has had no care except when she harvests stalks she cuts off the leaves right there and puts them back around the plants as mulch. It just grows! When you tried it, did you maybe harvest too much too soon? or did you not get as far as that? Mom has...

I'm a little puzzled by the original post specifying southerners...I'm in upstate NY and we have sumac all over the place (the lemonade kind, not the poisonous kind). If that's what you mean and you can't just dig it somewhere, we have tons of it. I could probably find a small specimen, not...

I'm sure my upstate NY home has the right environment for wintergreen, but I've never found any...maybe because I don't know what I'm looking for! Does anyone have a photo of it, a good enough one that's it's recognizable? I've tried several books but haven't found a really good photo yet.

Don't know, but call your local ag. extension office or garden center and find out. If so, I'd be happy to dig you some, too. Let me know!