Sometimes you look at a recipe and instantly know something isn’t right. Take this one for Cajun pickles from a certain book on pickling. At the top of the recipe it says the yield will be four quarts of pickles. But only a few lines lower down it calls for a gallon of water for […]
How do you know when your onions are ready to harvest? The foliage falls to the ground and turns brown. These are the onions we harvested last week. This is our first year growing onions, so I qualify only as an onion novice. We were hoping for bigger onions. The red ones were particularly small–only […]
I’ve been watching the beans swell in the bean patch and calculating when the time might be ripe for a harvest. The moment arrived yesterday with friends coming for dinner. I was amazed to see what a bounty my little plants had provided. These are the Italian Romanette variety, a wide and flat bush bean […]
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