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My best achievement was fabulous compost. About a month ago I hauled out enough really nice stuff to enrich the whole area that I'm using for my fall garden.

There's this awesome Vietnamese restaurant near us and the guy who owns it got some awesome hot peppers from a friend of a friend who brought the seeds from Vietnam. He very kindly gave me half a pepper to save the seeds. I've never saved pepper seeds before. Do you have to go through the...

I think it's ok too. If you could do something really simple like applesauce or pears, then people could use their new canning skills for the next spring. The process is the same. It's just the ingredients that change. Another possibility is to focus on canning or preserving something to...

Hmmm. I planted English cucumbers right out in the garden and they did really well. We had a very cool wet summer though.

Honestly a chick is really no big deal in the compost. Birds die in the wild all the time and they decompose. I'm not sure I would compost, say, a possum. That might be better buried. As for innovative soil amendments, just the other night a friend of mine told me she buried the placenta...

Sounds like a cockroach. They have really flat bodies and long antennae. Probably a good idea to feed it to the chickens.

OMG! That's a boy carrot if I've ever seen one. :gig

I am considerably farther north than you, but I usually expect the first frost around October 31st.

Those look so good. :P

You would definitely have to use a pressure canner to preserve that recipe. Some one else is probably better equipped to tell you how. I've done some pressure canning, but it's really not my cup of tea. Do you by chance have a copy of the Ball Blue Book? There are some relishes in it that...

From your description it sounds like Night Blooming Cereus, except for the pink flower part. My dad had a couple, a few years back, but they bloomed white. They smelled fantastic though!

One of my dear children (who shall remain nameless) decided it would be a good idea to ride her bike to the pet store and buy a pair of mice, a male and a female. So now we have pet mice. Of course I know it would have been better parenting to march her butt right back to the pet store and...

I bake it in the oven, run it through the food mill and then freeze it in jars or those little plastic boxes. I bet you could freeze it in chunks if you were pressed for time. I do that with butternut squash. When I'm making pumpkin pie or bread, I usually prepare two or three times the...

Ha Ha :gig This is a funny thread. We should start an online fashion show. I have two pairs of jeans with knee blow-outs and the cut is so, well 1980. I wear one pair of those and a ratty old tank top and one of two old denim long sleeve button down shirts. I would love to have a lovely...

How long have you had it? Composting takes time. Also how big is the pile? Also if your pile is getting good and hot you won't have worms. The composting will be done by bacteria. Generally worms work with smaller amounts at cooler temperatures. Compost is "ready" when it looks like...

Ewwww. Like my dad says, the only thing worse than finding a worm in your apple is finding half a worm.

Mine ALWAYS float. Over time they will fall somewhat. As long as your lids seal they are fine. If anyone knows a trick to keep them from floating I would love to hear it.

I'd totally share if I were closer to Corvallis. :|

I usually give a loaf of homemade bread and a jar of jam in a nice basket. I mad those for all of my kids' teachers last year and they were so appreciative. I'm hoping to get some blackberry jam made later this week.

One of my pepper plants has really nasty blossom end rot. I'm wondering if some varieties are more prone? Only one out of five has it and I'm not sure which variety it is. I must have been distracted when I planted them because I didn't keep track of what I planted where. Anyway, are there...