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The great potato experiment is now complete. This first pic is of my set up. My dad had these trash cans that were really trash, the bottoms were worn through. He finished cutting the bottoms off and cut them in half. The harvest was super easy. I used a mix of topsoil and bagged compost...

I tried something new this year and planted some potatoes in bottomless containers filled with topsoil/compost mix. I babied them and they were looking beautiful. The the drought hit, but I kept them watered, but decided to let my goats out. The first several weeks I remembered to keep a...

....of peach butter. Couldn't help it and had to have a taste already. DD couldn't resist and ate a bowl already. I'm wondering if it will even make it to the jars. This was made from the peaches from the free trees next door. The peaches weren't the greatest, clingstone and hard to peel...

So after losing my tomatoes to what seems to be terrible soil conditions I decided to do a mid season (July) replant when I found plants for a quarter each. My goodness they are looking good, hopefully we get some 'maters before the frost gets them. When the kids inhaled about half of the...

Well this week stopped by the fully loaded pear tree and some of them turned loose so we went back with our buckets and filled 'em up. I canned 8 pints as a test run. Made them with a medium syrup. The verdict, hubby said too sweet and a bit too firm. So I'm currently running some thru the...

I was planning another round of cucumbers this year. Only I hit 1 problem, I can't find my seeds. While at the store they still have several different types of cucumber seeds, but I can't tell if they are picklers or regular. Is there a way I can tell, they all say preserve by pickling. I...

I gave up on the almost 60 tomato plants that we planted at the beginning of the growing season. Seems nothing I do is helping the bulk of them. So this weekend my lovely hubby built me 2 new raised beds where I'm planning to do all my gardening next year and I planted 9 tomato plants in 1 of...

This weekend we set up a couple of raised beds. Added dirt and hubby went to get what should have been old horse manure. Instead he dug out where the horses eat and trample hay. I've raked out all the nasty wet hay and put it in a pile. Will I need to do anything to get it to break down by...

My lovely sweet goats made my bad day even worse yesterday by getting out and eatting the bark off of a few of my lovely new trees. They pretty much ate the bark off all the way around both of my Yoshino Cherry trees. The Kwanzan Cherry trees also took a hit but nearly as severe. Is there any...

The house next door has a pear tree that's absolutely loaded this year. It's bank owned and not looking very promising at selling so I was thinking about picking the pears and canning them (my hubby loves loves loves pears). I've read up on ripening them off the tree but I was wondering if...

When making pickles do you taste each cuke before cutting up. With the heat and lack of rain I've found a bitter one or two in my group. After this morning I don't care it I never eat another cuke I felt the need to taste each one just in case. :barnie. On a good note I ended up with 3 pints...

I seem to having a heck of a time with my tomatoes this year. Quick runs down I have jellybean grapes, romas, early girl and rutgers. I planted in a new spot this year. It was where I parked my round bales last year Our weather is crazy hot and humid. I'm hit by a "wall of water"...