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I fed a zillion of those little hard pumpkins last winter to my hens and one starved rescued goat. I would simmer a bunch in a stock pot on the wood stove every 3-4 days and dole them out that way. The hens were able to eat them right down to the tough rind that way and loved them. Otherwise...

Just remember that when something is in writing, there are liability issues, so books and sites selling stuff have to emphasize the dangers to cover their butts. If you take the normal precautions and check the seals on your jars when you put them away and again when you take one out to use it...

Not as cool as your root veggies. Store higher in the cellar and dryer, like a top shelf where it is a bit warmer and dryer if you have a traditional root cellar. Go through them about twice a week and feed anything that is developing spots. I stored 72 little ones last fall. I put them on...

I think I will try this in the spring, plant some in an earthbucket. Our winters are quite cold, so it is probably a bit late to start it. Even in the garage it gets WELL below zero degrees F.

ofg, they are just practicing their intruder alert. They do it all the time for no apparent reason. One of mine is sounding the alarm right now. Sometimes they get separated and will call for the others. Yes, 26 seems to be her (my white-belled hen is my broody one) magic number. They both...

Clipping their wings??? You could pluck those buggers bald and they would still be able to fly into the rafters!!!:gig Mine survive the New England winters just fine. They abandoned the coop and the hens to roost in the rafters. Sometimes they will roost in a tree, but not too often...

Hmmm, now I am wondering if a five gallon pail is big enough! Is it like potatoes, plant in the spring for a fall harvest if I want to treat it like an annual? I wonder if I could just bury some pieces at the far end of my pasture (have to look up to see if the tops are poisonous first) or...

How fast does it grow? Should I start some in a five gallon pail now, or wait for spring? Is a bucket big enough? Will it winter over in my garage? So many questions!

I compost goat and chicken and turkey poo along with all the leaves and weeds and the lawn clippings from our yard and the neighbor's yard (too much for the birds to eat it all). My three guineas do a fantastic job of patrolling for bugs. With them on patrol, this is the first year that my...

Oh, rats, I didn't see ANY crown bits on the store horseradish.

How big or small of a piece can I get away with? Can I plant it now, Zone 4-5, for next year's crop?

Can I buy a chunk of horseradish from the store and stick it in the ground? If so, when and how? How big a piece? What conditions, etc? My folks are moving near me, and I want to plant some for them....don't like the stuff myself, so am clueless about it. I'm going to buy some next week to...

Remember, I was living in an apartment, so anything fresh was so wonderful. I planted grape tomatoes and we ate them by the bushel, it seemed. I let the plants grow, but you really need to top them. My first one was twelve feet tall, which delayed the fruit a bit, but I just had to see how...

I use a home-made version for certain plants, and I LOVE them. I started making them when we lived in an apartment, and I grew amazing tomatoes in them. Now I grow lettuce and swiss chard, to keep them up and away from the slugs. Here is my version...

I think you'll like this one, BBH. Not really a recipe, more of a method, I guess. I wash the pumpkin and cut it in half from stem to flower end. Sugar pumpkins are best for this, but I've used the big gigantic ones used for carving, too. These have far less flavor, though. Save the seeds...

Heretic! Burn at the stake! :D

Be patient ( :rolleyes: listen to me, the queen of impatience!) and disturb the jars as little as possible while they are cooling. With pressure canning the jars will continue to actually boil for some time after being removed from the canner! The pressure inside the jars, even with wbc, means...

I have a flat top stove and have been pressure canning on it for a year now, and have done literally hundreds of jars. I usually have two going at once. I got the Presto 23 quart pressure canner, which is approved for ceramic top stoves. The shape of the bottom of the canner seems to be part...