Summer might be over but it lives indefinitely in my freezer. Oh, do I love my freezer. It generously stores my frozen zucchini, yellow squash, peppers and herbs so I can savor the bounty of my garden all year long. But like you, the thought of limp, watery zucchini doesn’t sound too appealing UNTIL you […]
Apple Core Apple Juice Recipe. Use those Cores!
I love picking apples in the fall. After picking all those apples I can’t wait to make crockpot sugar-free apple sauce. But what happens when your small heirloom apple orchard decides to give you a lot more apples than the previous year. Or you just happen to pick way too many apples? Are you swimming in apple […]
Green Tomato Chili. Use Those Green Tomatoes!
This time is the saddest time of the year when my tomato plants are ready to be pulled or suffer the ravages of the first killing frost. I guess the tomatoes didn’t get the text message to slow down as they continue to flower and create new tomatoes in September. So instead of trying […]
18 Healthy Kale Recipes to Assure You Will Love Kale
I love kale. It is such a nutritious powerhouse. And growing it couldn’t be easier except the moths think it is divine as well. Since I let my kale go to seed, I have an abundance of it in the garden and tried to sell it along with my other vegetable overages. No one […]
Grow Eggplant Successfully. Win the Bug Battle.
I have discovered the secret to growing eggplant. I am hesitant to share it with you since you too will have a bumper crop of those shiny purple, yummy tasting veggies. *The horrors.* For five years, I was an eggplant growing loser. I walked with shame. How can someone who grows everything fail at eggplant? […]
Canning Tomatoes Recipe–A Better Way.
Every year I tell myself–don’t grow so many darn tomatoes. And every year I never listen to myself. I don’t have the heart to thin out my tomato seedlings. So consequently, I am harvesting a boat load of cherry and slicing tomatoes. In the past, I would remove the skin and seeds, cook them down […]
How to Preserve Zucchini and Summer Squash
As gardeners we talk a lot about how to grow and harvest our vegetables but rarely talk about what to do with the excess from those prolific bearing vegetables. You know which ones I am talking about– zucchini, eggplant, and tomatoes. In the past, I provided a tutorial on how to can tomatoes, but you can’t […]
Powdery Mildew Spray with Milk. Nip it in the Bud.
Powdery mildew on your plants seems like a rite of passage as a gardener. The fungus causes the leaves to become a rainbow of colors of yellow, white, and brown. Eventually, many of the leaves die. My squash, pumpkins, and cucumbers are infected with powdery mildew every year. So instead of fighting it, I am […]
