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You can make pear butter as well - like apple butter, but made with pears. Very easy to do in the crockpot. Follow this method: http://www.pickyourown.org/pearbutter.htm ETA: Also works with peaches. Hope you get those too!

We've been digging and digging potatoes - red pontiac, white kennebec, yukon gold and red fingerlings. They're fabulous! A couple night's ago DH actually cooked addtional potatoes after dinner for his dessert! LOL We had to mail order the fingerling seed potatoes. I'd like to save some of what...

We've learned toads love an easy meal. We had a plank walkway to the house at our last place. At the corner was a post where we hung a bug zapper (light). A colony of toads took up residence under the walk. At dusk, they would come out and gobble up the bugs that were drawn to the light and...

ooOOOooo, they're lovely! Must try those red/purple ones. How do they taste?

We're replanting this week as well - cucumbers, squashes and zucchini. There is also still time for late tomatoes, bush beans, etc. Anything that will mature in 60 days can be planted now in our zone, you'll be eating them Sept/Oct until frost gets them or the nights get cool enough in late...

Wow, nice crop, Steve! How did you make out with them at the market?

This page is pretty good for helping to identify tomato diseases http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/diagnostickeys/TomLeaf/TomLeafKey.html

The tomato plants were definitely diseased. I thought it looked more like septoria leaf spot, which is also difficult to cure and spreads too easily. Your best bet was still to dispose of them regardless. If you have powdery mildew, an organic copper fungicide will stop it. However, you'll...

I would plant something not likely to be affected by blight - a cole crop like cabbage, broccoli, etc, or okra, or a leafy green like lettuce, chard, mustard, turnips, etc. So sorry. We've been there....... I know it's frustrating.

I didn't think of recommending bags, but thesweetattack.com bags and service are EXCELLENT! We've been using them for about 18 months. We buy a case of 6 rolls every couple months between freezing garden produce/fruits, vac sealing dehydrated items, freezing meat chickens, etc. I highly...

Get rid of affected plants, as already said. And treat remainders and other plants (like potatoes, eggplant, even vine crops like cucmber/squash) with an organic Copper Fungicide as a preventive measure to stop any spreading. We use the organic Copper Fungicide shown on this page. But around...

Thank you! I'm off to pick blueberries again in the morning. I see syrup in my future. :)

:welcome What state or zone are you in? Well, these two didn't get very big...maybe 6-8 oz each. For whatever reason they decided to ripen sooner. Many others on the same vines are much bigger and still greenish. I'm eyeballing grape tomatoes now. I had some this morning almost ready to...

I may try that. We never have enough space. And hilling potatoes is a pain. Davaroo - yeah, you are seriously missing it. Try them, at least once. Bet you'll grow them every year!

We do the same method on a paper towel, napkin or paper plate (whatever is handy at the time). It works well in a sunny kitchen window for us (humid here). Of course, we're run air conditioning once the temp's get above 85*, so that helps the humidity inside. I did the whole ferment the seeds...

:woot We picked our first Mountain Spring heirlooms yesterday. And they were delicious!

We picked our first ripe tomatoes yesterday. But we're zone 7....so that's not cheating....is it? :)

Would you post your syrup recipe? Thanks

I label mine....but yes, only on the lids. I make nice printed labels for the ones we sell, but handwritten 'quickie' labels for us. Agreed - set-up/prep is king in the kitchen when canning. Having everything out & ready makes a lot of difference. Having staging areas for finished jars to cool...

Human hair and toilet paper are both deer deterents, and work on rabbits too. They will only work until it rains. Once drenched by rain, they lose scent and won't deter critters any longer. Edit: lose, not loose LOL