Growing onions is a bit of a commitment, I am realizing. At least when it comes to garden space. Last October is when I believe we planted these guys and now, nine months later, we are finishing the harvest. They are super low-maintenance and have been coming into our kitchen to feed us in various…
It is a backhoe week for Stewart, digging ponds and outhouse holes and other various projects. Haymaker’s punch is in order for hot days on big equipment (or in the garden). A couple of apron pockets full of black-eyed peas a day and we’re set for the daily homestead stir-fry. I forgot how much you…
Deep summer means saying good-bye to certain vegetables in the garden. The collard greens, while heat tolerant to some degree, were bug-ridden early on and never really grew to full size this spring. We’ve been eating off of them for some time now but it was clear that they just weren’t going to grow much…
This week we started putting the garden to bed for the summer. Back in the Midwest, July through September were the pinnacle of the garden, market, and food preservation period. It has literally taken me years to get out of that rhythm and swing into a rhythm that takes into account the impact the heat has…
