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So hot here and humid. Started watering the garden to keep things alive. Potato plot was tilled and sown with buckwheat and watered. I love using buckwheat as covercrop. It's great for pollinators!

Had sautéed okra and tomato/cucumber Salad with lunch today. So good! DH had tomato and cheese panini with apple sauce I canned last fall. I just love our meals this time of year. So many goodies from the garden!

I am really excited for market today! I had fun filling these baskets at home just to make sure I had enough veggies to fill them up. It was so hot when we harvested these. But I'm glad they are inside and ready for market!

OK finally done digging. It was hot, sweaty and dirty job but so glad to have it done. I plan to go to the market on Thursday and sell some ppotatoes. I'll also share and trade some with friends. Last batch of salsa is water bathing now. I'll have 28 jars total! Neighbor wants to buy some so...

To me nothing is more beautiful than freshly harvested/preserved produce from my garden! We are making good progress on digging up potatoes but still have 6 more rows to go. I feel so blessed that we have hardly had any vole damage this year! The size of potatoes is small but that is probably my...

Welcome! This is by far my favorite gardening site!

Not gardening related but I want to share this. This is a song a good friend of mine wrote and sang. Please have a listen. It will sure bring encouragement!

Coffee and breakfasts were early today since its potato harvest time! We have a large patch (~35×35) with rows 12inches apart. We dug up 3 rows and were hot and sweaty. Decided to wash them and put them on the porch in the shade to cure (with a fan). We plan to dig more this evening when the...

I dislike squirrels. And voles. And rats. I have to be careful about what I say/ask people on how they manage pests. Yesterday while talking to some friends, she mentioned that chipmunks are eating her cherry tomatoes. I asked if she sent her sons out with the bb gun to scare them away? Her...

Thank you for the kind words, they being me encouragement. I am really looking forward to having goat kids! I have so many plans for the milk too!

Greenhouse is turning in to a jungle! Clearly I didn't plan well but I am so thankful for the woven fabric! The beans actually have pods! Our goats are growing and doing well! We have two boys and two girls. I can understand why people love nigerian dwarf goats.

For anyone that may want a great cure for stings, activated charcoal poultice is amazing! I mix 1:1 part charcoal powder with flax ground or chia seed grounds (this helps it to stay in place) and add enough water to make a paste. Keep in fridge til ready to use. When needed, put enough on a...

Oh my! Poor dog!

@baymule sorry to derail your thread. I would like to just make one comment about food. Lack of education and one's own neglect for self education is more to blame in my own opinion. I worked in the medical filed for 15 years and I have seen so many parents give their children sodas and sweet...

Dogs love cheese! We had a beagle that never chewed her food so it was easy to give her medicine rolled up in a piece of cheese. Our mutt, Lassie is too smart (I guess that's what we get for naming her Lassie 😂) and she will eat the cheese and leave the pill behind 😂. She won't even go near her...

My in house beagle did the same 😂. She would go outside and roll around in the grass after getting bathed. Lucky for her she was adorable!

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Last year my volunteer qinter squash was all I harvested from.my real patch was buried in weeds and the plants didn't do well at all! I also get plenty of cherry tomato volunteers but never slicing or Roma? It's weird! I also get dill, mustard, bok choy, marigolds, sunflowers, zinnias, potatoes...

We were gone on vacation for 4 days. Came home to loads of tomatoes ready to be harvested. Some were monsters! Made 14 qt salsa already.

Finally enough to make few batches of salsa!