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I have horrible luck w peppers. However I found a small Amish farmstand that sold green peppers for 25c each last year. 4 for $1? I bought a ton, sliced them and froze them. Just used up the last of them last week. I’ll save my space for something that grows well for me. May buy 1 jalapeño plant...

Will up-pot my indoor lettuce today. Looked at my seed starting timeline list, and next weekend starts the busy season for planting for me!

Read too fast, thank you! Thanks!

Thank you! This is water canner, not pressure, right?

Oh! How can I do that now? Great idea!

I was lucky and gifted 2 water bath canners, and we bought a pressure canner last year. Tested out some different things. Pickles were too soft, so have to find a better way to make them. Sauce, applesauce, beans, and chicken soup came out great. Beets had no flavor (I did not pickle them, just...

My best advice is start small! You won’t know what grows well and how much you can handle until a year or two in. We started with one 4x8 box and I grew a few of my favorites only. Hub added 2 more boxes year 2, and 2 again in year 3. Then he decided to till up another section adjacent. That...

More planting today! Seeded parsley, oregano, and leeks. Also worked out the rest of my seeding calendar so I don’t forget what to plant. Hub also told me he is going to make me 4 more 4x8 beds in a slightly shadier area, thinking I’ll put some greens in there and try a couple winter squash...

I planted 2 varieties of container lettuce (will keep indoors, hoping to get a little to clip in a few weeks), 3 varieties of celery, and some rosemary. According to the farmers almanac, those are the only edible I should be starting indoors until March. Havent checked my flower dates yet though.

Can you explain the container way for sweet potatoes? Thank you for the fertilizer tip, I’m sure that’s what I did wrong a few years ago in my only attempt at them.

I’m planning to start leek and celery indoors this coming week. Probably just 6 cells of each with a few seeds in each cell to separate later. If I start with too many, I don’t have room for the later plantings! I am definitely not starting 50 tomatoes this year…just want 12 paste, 3 slicer and...

It’s a little lower along the fenceline. I’ll have to move dirt around to see if I can even it out. Maybe throw some sticks and leaves on it also to break down in the future!

I inter plant nasturtiums, petunias, and marigolds in my beds, and sunflowers and zinnias on the north side of the garden. Might also try planting sunflowers on the north side of my property next to the fenceline, along with some other wildflower seeds I found. Ground is grassy, low and gets...

We are adding a few herb boxes, and I think DH found another spot we can fence in for corn and winter squash. Hoping it isn’t too shady, right next to our woods. I am also working on him to see if we can make a few 3x3 boxes with some decent pallets we acquired. If he builds it, I will fill it. 😂

Does anyone start onions from seed? Wondering if it’s too late. I usually buy sets in March…

My local CSA is offering a bunch of plant starts. Normally I start my own, but they had some native perennial flowers and medicinal herbs that intrigued me, so I preordered a bunch. Perennials will go toward the side of my property, not near the garden, and medicinal herbs will most likely go in...

There is a butter bush plant, supposedly only grows 3 feet or so. I really like honeynut, which are mini-butternuts and super sweet. Enought for a personal squash, and delightfully sweet! If you are looking for a good bush squash, delicata comes in a bush, which produces decently, and they...

I do winter squash instead of pumpkins. Butternut seems to be the most disease and pest resistant. My girls are spoiled. They don’t care for raw squash that much (love the seeds though), so I’ll bake more than we will eat and they looooove the cooked squash!

How can you tell which marigolds are single bloom? I usually buy a few flats of marigolds and petunias to sprinkle around the garden. I start all my own veggies so buying the flats gives me a little break. 😂

Celery takes FOREVER to start. First time I thought my seeds were bad. Took 3 weeks to sprout! Now I start it indoors with a heat mat. Once they get decently big and weather is right, I transplant outside. Stalks have much more flavor and are less watery than grocery celery. I juice my celery...