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Very nice, glad to hear from you. I'd like to see the garden too.

:welcome Welcome! :frow

Looks great! :love :thumbsup

Amazing! Lucky you!

You're right - jelly is from juice and jam has fruit in it. Raspberries can be made into either - it depends if you like the seeds or not (my aunt always did jelly because the seeds got under her dentures). I prefer jam in most cases - I like the texture better. The only jelly I make is...

It is a Nesco by American Harvest. It had 4 trays and you can buy extra ones so I have 8 which is the maximum. I found it works best if you rotate the trays once in awhile during the drying process so they dry more evenly. It may take longer with 8 trays but not twice as long so I'm saving...

I bought mine and use it to dry mint for tea, some herbs, prune plums, apple slices, zucchini candy, grapes, cherries.

:welcome welcome from BC, Canada :frow

Good luck to you and hope to hear from you now and then. Take care, you'll be missed.

:clap :gig more! more!

Big pot of Borscht day before yesterday. Today it was Fresh Raspberry pie and apple pie using one jar of apple pie filling I made last month.

I was pulling out some lettuce for my chickens when I came across this volunteer potato growing in the beans and corn. It was spread all over so I decided to pull it out. It had 9 small potatoes, 4 medium sized and these two huge ones!

It looks like a bartlett pear to me but on the following link, french butter and comice look the same shape as well. :idunno http://localfoods.about.com/od/pears/tp/pearvarieties.htm

Well that answers my questions too. I have chocolate mint that I grew for tea last year but it seems slow this year so I decided to dry some spearmint and peppermint that I grew from seed but did not use. Yuk! It was not nice tea - barely any minty taste at all. :tongue I thought it might...

cherries, potatoes, beets

We've actually had it cooler and wetter than the norm so I'm puzzled. I know peas get old fast in the heat but we only had a few scattered days that it was warm. But we've had big flucuations in temp (we have had 35C for a high and a few nights later it dropped to 6C) Could the temp changes...

I have always planted Homesteader peas and have always had good crops. This year my peas are turning old too soon. They make pods but the pods get wrinkled and old looking before the peas fill out. I've never seen this happen before. The few pods that fill out don't have the fresh pea taste...

That is the sidewalk my son built between two sections of the garden. I just love it as it is different yet serves a purpose plus my son placed every rock himself after we collected them all from the river.

I used river sand around my herb boxes and like it as a pathway. A few weeds pop up or occassion herb goes to seed in it but it is not much work keeping it neat. My son also used the same gravel and rounded stones to make a walkway between two parts of the garden. I love it! It looks so neat...

I hate the sweaty feel of gloves - much rather feel the dirt. So I use my leather gloves only for prickly stuff and I also wear the one on my right hand when digging bigger roots with the trowel so my palm doesn't get as sore or blistered. My hands do look like I've been digging in the garden...