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Thank you Ariel and Journey. We pulled a ton of those lettuces and sold them at the market yesterday morning. What's still in the garden will hopefully make it another week, maybe two. But then the heat will become too much for it.

Spray plants & the affected area with artificial grape flavor - like koolaid or cheap soda. Birds react to it like mammals do to hot pepper. It will only last a couple days as it'll break down in sun or rain. But it won't take many bites before they decide go.

Here are 2 deserts using rhubarb Fresh Rhubarb Cake http://millriverfarm.com/recipe.cfm?id=432&catname=Desserts and Sweets Pineapple Rhubarb Pie http://millriverfarm.com/recipe.cfm?id=431&catname=Desserts and Sweets

I use this one: Pickled Hot Pepper Rings (or Whole Peppers) - printable version available at link 2 lb. hot peppers (banana, Hungarian wax, jalapeno, etc) 2 Tbsp. canning/pickling salt 1 c. white vinegar 1 c. water Slice peppers into rings. For a milder product, seed peppers...

Looks like a great start!

That first bit of something, anything from the garden is always so heavenly. Enjoy!

Nice looking carrot! Congrats!

Agree. We usually end up giving our peppers a stake (shorter than the tomato stakes) and tying them off once or twice....just enough to keep them from layng over from the weight of the peppers.

Congrats from me too! Gardening is such a fun challenge and so rewarding! Your hardiness zone is an important factor in gardening. Please take a look at this Illinois zone map and tell us which zone you're in. http://www.bestplants.org/zonemap.htm As a general guide, you plant things in order...

Thank you All! Nice to know it looks good to others. :happy_flower Steve - there are 2 more market gardens. The second is about 3/4 the size. The third is much smaller with 4 raised beds about (3' x 10' each) and a 10' x 15' plot for early cucumbers or other viney things in some years. Here's...

The Ball jar company website has 95 tested recipes shared from this index page http://www.freshpreserving.com/pages/all_recipes/215.php?catID=Home-Canning&pageNum=1 Edited to Add.... From the MSU wesbite - Preserving Food Safely, Full text database on canning, freezing, drying of food. Based...

DH & I decided we needed some new pics for our farm website, so we took these of one of the market gardens a couple mornings ago. All overall shot Lettuces, Spinach, Swiss Chard, Potatoes Cole crops - Cauliflower, Broccoli, Green and Purple Cabbages. We've already harvested the first...