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I'm having difficulty getting seals on my widemouth quart jars. I processed 3 (I know, I'm a slacker) jars yesterday and got zero seals. The 1 inch headspace wasn't enough and 2 of the jars barfed some tomatoes out, obviously not forming a seal. I reprocessed them today with new lids and only...

Last night I made: 5 jelly jars of jalapeno-habanera salsa (hot peppers grown in my moms garden in Virginia) (my hands are still burning) 6 pints of stewed tomatoes Froze 4 quarts of assorted bell peppers and 1 quart of green onion tops for cooking. Not a lot, but it's my first year...

Oh I did weed once and it looked really nice for about 2 weeks. Great idea on the grass clippings mulch. I'll have to try that next year. I think it's mice or chipmunks. I have chicken wire around the garden so it's got to be something small that gnaws.

No - glue made of flour and water so it dissolves! The "tape" makes seed spacing easy, so less thinning later. More work when it's cold, dark and dreary and less work when the weather's nice! :lol:

Here's what I did with my carrots after 2 years of failure and did great this year. In fact, I'm fighting the vermin for my carrots. I made carrot seed tape out of carrot seeds, flour/water mixture for glue and paper towels. Made a tiny little trench for them in the garden, laid the seed...

Awesome! You'll have to let me know how they do. They're pretty small, but should be a perfect size for Ava.

To tell if a canteloupe is ripe, it'll basically fall off the vine easily. If it doesn't, leave it. Most of mine actually fell off the vine without any assistance from me. Others I just had to touch the plant gently and the vine pulled off. They were all perfectly ripe.

What doesn't look good about the plant? Despite mine being in a hoophouse it got all kinds of powdery mildew so it will be dead in just a few weeks. Watch out for your sugar pie! You may have the winner!

Yes, they started out in a cold frame for a bit before transplant. They weren't in there that long because I know they don't like to be too big and be transplanted. To tell if a canteloupe is ripe, it'll basically fall off the vine easily. If it doesn't, leave it. Most of mine actually fell...

After a few years of trying I finally did it! Success with melons in Maine! Thank you all for your advice. The type is Sweet N Early and I grew it in two different spots: a self watering container and a large cow lick container. I planted 1 plant in each spot, fertilized with duck poop water...

I was just going to post and get this thread going again... How is your plant(s) doing? Any progress pictures of your contender? I still have a big zilch. But that's ok. There's always next year.

That's hilarious.

I don't even have a baby pumpkin yet. No idea what's going on this year. The females are dying on the vine and shriveling up even before they get big enough to open their flower. No clue. Oh well.

Well free goats are like a free dog... you still have to buy all the stuff to go with them! But yes, saved us a couple hundred in start up fees, at least. They're still alive this morning, so I haven't killed them yet in the 18 hours I've owned them. I did swap their hay out this morning, it...

The pen was an excellent idea from BF, they're 8 foot panels, 4 feet tall and moveable. We want the goats to clear our land. So moveable is key. We've only built 6 so far, but have the materials for a few more. I think we may try free ranging the goats once they get comfortable with the idea...

Yes, first time goat owner here. Friends had to downsize due to family issues. I've been mulling them over for years but hadn't committed. The prospect of two cute free goats did it.

Just brought these cuties home today. I hope they eat everything but my garden. I fear they will eat everything, especially my garden.

We have 3 different "compost" piles. 1. A wooden one that we (he) built. It stays in our chicken run and the only things that go in there are chicken poop from the poop boards or with shavings, and plant life - grass clippings or weeds. The chickens dig through it. We had to add some wire...

Mary, I have 2 more speckled sussex hens that were born 1 January and just started laying a few weeks ago. I'm still getting pullet eggs from them, but they're laying decently well, 4-5 eggs a week but it is early in their career. I think Hoppy is an anomaly, she didn't start laying until she...

My two cents... I throw out 5-6 week old chicks into the coop with their full grown coop mates - winter included. They do fine. It's absolutely warm enough for your 4 week old chick to be introduced to the coop now. I'd get a cage or build one out of scrap to separate her from the rest of the...