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We've been getting big fat asparagus spears for almost three weeks now. People at work are fighting over it when I take it in and set it down on the table outside my office for anyone to take. One woman the other day took off her shoe and was beating another one with it to get her to back off...

My Mama always called it 'Shrift' but I took some into a nursery once and was told it was Creeping Phlox. People here grow it on the sides of banks in their yards along a road bed because it holds the soil in place and it'll grow almost anywhere. Pretty in the spring but just ground cover the...

Sorry, Baymule but I don't have the packet anymore. There were Asian beans and they were advertized to grow up to 2 feet. We just couldn't find a way to cook them that was appetizing. Your recipe sounds great. We tried just sauteing them in olive oil with a bit of chopped garlic with salt...

We grew those last year and were disappointed with the taste. They produced a lot of 12-18" beans but we couldn't find a way to cook them that was tasty. Cutting them up into six inch lengths and sauteing them in olive oil and garlic was a disaster. Like eating chalk, except without the...

That was a long time ago but I do remember him having Rome apples though. There were red and yellow apples. He had maybe fifteen or twenty trees out back he planted the year I was born. I remember that when I go up to the Century Orchard Farms where we get our trees they put out apples for...

You know, that reminds me of something my Dad always did in his orchard every year. He'd take one of our plastic baseball bats out there when the trees were in full bloom and beat the limbs on each of the trees knocking off a lot of the blooms. He'd tell us that the apples would be bigger...

Well, I think we made it through to the other side almost unscathed. Red, you're right in that the trees did put on more blooms right after the frost. Not a lot of blooms on the ground either. Maybe...just maybe...

Here in central NC in what is known as the Piedmont it is supposed to get down to 28F tonight. I'm guessing the apple and pear trees will take a hit since they are in bloom. We were hoping this would be the year because the twelve oldest trees are now almost six years old. Last year most of...

I did email the fellow from Century Farms who we got the pear trees from and he said, yes we do need to prune these two trees right away even though it's late. He sent me a link to a15-minute video on how to do it. Just a plug for David Vernon and his Century Farms Orchards if you ever need...

I put in six Keefer pear trees in late 2012 and this year they put out a lot of blooms. Don't know if they'll make fruit but they sure were pretty. Our bees were all over them because they were probably the first things to bloom around here. Anyways, a question. Two of the trees are going...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. Spring has sprung and I've finally gotten all my boxes cleaned out and ready to go. It has been a lousy winter and early spring down here in the South. We are still getting frost and more is expected later this week. I am so over winter...

We have a Champion which is probably the best juicer of all juicers. It's big and heavy. It's like one of those Kitchenaid mixers where you have to dedicate a corner of your counter to it. But you'll get a lifetime of performance out of it. Easy to clean and built like a tank. It takes all...

Burlap bag, 1 brick bat, 1 cat, 1 12-inch length of heavy twine. Load brick bat and cat in that order into bag and tie off with twine. On your way to work as you pass over the Yadkin River bridge you give the bag a fling over the railing. If on the way home you spot the bag retrieve it and...

Our Lucy is about 18 months now and is at that stage too. My problem with her is that she wants to chew on everything. Her favorite chew toy is the corner of the garage. I'd just finished painting the garage and all the trim a couple of months ago and I came home from work one day and saw...

I'd forgotten about coconut oil until I read the above post by So Lucky. Teresa uses it instead of lard or shortening to make pie crusts and they come out just right. Apparently it also makes a pretty good base for hand and body cream because she will make up a batch of it and give away the...

Alcohol will do the trick. Mama always used it when we'd get chiggers. I remember them as tiny little red spots as small as a pin head. I have heard of the kerosene thing too but I don't think today I'd want to do that one. We went for a walk down by the creek the other day and when we came...

Olive oil is good but it easily burns and that can make it a lot less healthy. We use grapeseed oil for all of our sauteing and frying needs. It takes a much higher temp and it's a good oil. Walnut and avocado oil are also supposed to be good oils to cook with too though we've not used them...

Teresa took some of the potatoes I turned up the other day when I was weeding the box and she made salted potatoes. I think she put them in a big pot she has and added a cup of course sea salt and covered them with water. Then she let them sit for 24 hours before taking them out and letting...

We have seventeen bushes. One is almost 8 years old. The others are all three years old. We just got in the ripest ones from all of them yesterday and the take was 4 gallon ziplock bags on the nose. And the bushes are only just starting to produce. We'll probably get another 4 gallons...

My guess is that it's probably a rookie guard bee that was recently elevated to the position from being inside the hive and she took her job a little too seriously. Too bad because she died a pretty violent death by having her insides ripped out when she buried her stinger in me. But really...