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I'm so excited I just got a 16 qt pressure canner/cooker at a yard sale for 15.00 :weee. It is in excellent condition all parts accounted for except the manual which I just found and downloaded! The gasket looks brand new. Now I just have to get over my fear of useing a pressure cooker :hide...

I just couldn't wait any longer when I was out getting the squash I just had to harvest it, it weighs 3.4 lbs, I just can't decide what to make with it :idunno I really love the color I will definately grow red cabbage again. Despite the rough start this year things are coming along, although...

My beets are still doing well and while we are totally loving the roasted ones I want to try my hand at pickling some. Do any of you have a favorite recipe? I want to can them and the only recipe I found called for a 45 min processing time (waterbath) Even at my altitude, almost 7000 I thought...

I am so glad I tried beets this year. They taste great and are doing well, they are lovely in the garden, I'm going to try some this fall in the greenhouse. :rainbow-sun

I had a nice surprise this morning on my walk in the gardens :rainbow-sun

I found this on my All Blues, what is it? Is it seeds?, I've only grown taters for 4 years but haven't seen this before....

I only know that these are heirlooms, I wasn't real smart and I simply ordered "Heirloom Rainbow Variety" seeds so it is a surprise as to what will grow. I have never grown heirlooms before so I have no clue what is what :idunno. I'm just happy to see maters :weee First ones I found Second...

I got nine new garden ornaments today. Not only are they decorative but functional as well. Millie Fleur d'uccles They are itty bitty Finally some growing stuff My first clematis bloom Pumpkins Garlic Tomato Three Sisters Things are so far behind for the end of June. The itty...

My All Blues potatoes are starting to bloom and they are really pretty my sage is doing well also, they both have such pretty flowers it's a added bonus we get to eat from them also or maybe it's the other way around :) All Blues Sage

As some of you may have seen in my post on another thread we here in CO have had a challenging spring this year. While I've not been really pleased with the cold temps, late snows, cutworms,hail and torrential downpours, I have tried to look on the bright side, the prairie is green and...

I quit :barnie My garden is now under water.... :hit Friday night we had a terrible storm so much rain and of course it seems no storm in Colorado lately is complete with out a inch or two of hail. Yesterday we got more heavy rains and againthis afternoon heavy rains. There is just nowhere...

I have a cottonwood tree that seemed to be doing fine early spring and getting buds. Here it is June and it has never budded out. I have scratched the bark on the limbs and it is still green but it seems the buds just dried up. There is new growth on the lower trunk. This tree is about 15 ft...

My garden was looking pretty good considering late snows, cold temps, cutworms and some minor flooding 2 weeks ago, in fact I just told my DH this am that I thought my one lone brussels sprout (cutworms ate the other 5 :barnie) had doubled in size overnight, 30 bean plants were up and one of my...

I have been faithfully covering up my 4 (out of 9) remaining cabbage plants each evening thinking it was a bunny nibbling my leaves, well the more I looked at the leaves I really thought it looked like caterpillar damage but I know the cabbage worms aren't out yet, started digging and found...

My mixed variety heirloom tomatoes are turning a tan color on the very tips of the leaves, then it seems to develop into spots on the leaves then the leaves start to wilt then basically drop off. Is this a fungus? Or a soil problem. These are in the greenhouse in the ground, I'm seriously...

Ok hot is not always good for a tomato, it gets very hot very quickly in a greenhouse/hoophouse, major duh moment for me. We have been so busy we just haven't had time to get the windows done, well it got 100 degrees in there :ep even leaving the door open and a fan going. I thought I may...

Still need to put bricks in walkway and rear windows in but I did plant my tomatoe's that i started in Feb and I think they are happy to be in the earth :celebrate. DH and I are not builders of any kind, but we have had fun :woot . 99% of the wood is recycled from pallets, so while I will have...

I have 9 cabbage plants and 5 BS all pretty good size. Just how cold hardy are they? We are suppose to get some heavy spring snow or at the very least heavy rain, but cold night temps 28 I think was the lowest. If I plant them and mulch will they survive? I have never done cabbage and last...

Wasn't quite surewhere to put this sorry if wrong place. I am in zone 5, have had a bamboo(cold hardy variety) in the ground for 2 seasons and it just isn't doing well. I was wondering if I can dig it up now and put it into a pot and try to nurse it back to health. Should I keep it outside...

Does anyone know how far apart maters and taters should be? I have always planted them in completly different gardens, but I have a new garden area, that I could put both in and they would be roughly 10 ft apart is that far enough? I have read they should be kept apart because of early and...