Can one actually grow tomatoes inside throughout the winter? Well, I guess we’ll find out soon enough, ha? So far, the process has been fairly painless…the cuttings rooted well, transplanted fine and even recovered enough in the last month to put out some new growth and several little flowers! So,…
I started off the Season of Preservation with the best of intentions. I created an excel spreadsheet and planned on updating it each time we canned an item. This being only our second year of preserving anything, I was very excited about learning how to preserve a small variety of…
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned my hope/goal of growing some winter tomatoes throughout the cold months. Well, here’s the progress so far… On August 13th I took 3 cuttings from each cherry tomato (a bi-color cherry and a small sweet cherry), trimmed them of their bottom leaves and…
While grocery shopping last weekend I decided to treat myself to the latest Mother Earth News Wiser Living series. Inside, I found an article about growing tomatoes throughout the winter and knew that I would just have to try it! Last year I had hoped to still have tomatoes for…
A couple of weeks ago I found this post on braided Challah made on the BBQ and knew I had to try it! It was just so beautiful! On Sunday I finally got around to throwing it all together, but I decided to throw it in the oven instead of…
Who doesn’t like pancakes for breakfast? Right! However, they take time to make and who has time in the middle of the week to make pancakes? Not me, that’s for sure. So, instead, I make an extra big batch on the weekend and then freeze them. All you have to…
Today we… Painted old pallets, wrapped weed cloth around them and stuffed soil into them Cleared more rocks & leveled the ground where the bees will be moved to Put some stakes in the ground Secured two of the three pallets to their stakes Created trellising above each pallet for more vertical grow space…
Yesterday morning, while procrastinating about doing homework, I decided to make some muffins for breakfast while everyone else slept. We had limited supplies and no walnuts or pecans but I really wanted some Banana-Nut Muffins! I did a Google search and found this recipe. It sounded great, but I was lacking…