A few Saturdays ago we visited the Bel Air Farmers Market and I noticed one of the vendors sold “Corn Cob Jelly”. I can tell you my first thought was more or less disbelief that you could make jelly from a corn cob. The idea kept gnawing at me though, so this weekend after a minature vacation in Williamsburg, Virginia we came home and I got to work. I thoroughly
Why should anyone grow a garden?It’s actually a good question. I mean after all food is plentiful at the store right?Plus, food seems so cheap, so inexpensive right? Just stick to the middle aisles, maybe cut some coupons and you’ll save a whole heck of a lot!Why grow tomatoes? Why raise chickens? Why keep honey bees? There are many out there around me who look at me and think I’m nuts. I’ve
I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve written and yet it was only earlier last week that I wrote! So much has happened since the last time I wrote so, this is one of those moments when I take a huge sigh and try to figure out where to begin. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland the King said to the White Rabbit “Begin at the beginning and go on till
This weekend we have a lot that will be going on in our kitchen!Now, I have to say, while I thoroughly enjoy shows like Masterchef, I am no where near as talented as the home chefs on that show. I do best following a recipe, tweeking it a bit, maybe adding a flavor or two and staying with that. I know what flavors go well together and I know what
This weekend I decided to bite the bullet and tear out our lovely, beautiful lone tomatillo plant. If you remember right I posted earlier that I made the rookie mistake of only planting one tomatillo plant. You know, the old saying, it takes two to tango? Well that applies here. Tomatillo plants are self infertile which means they need two plants to produce fruit. Since I only planted one plant the tomatillo was
A weekend not spent camping usually means a productive day or two in the garden. This weekend we didn’t go camping so we managed to tidy up a bit, pull weeds, move some of our squash and cucumber vines around and work in our compost bins a bit. To those who are new to reading here, we do both traditional compost and Vermicompost. Traditional composting is more or less just
Wow. It’s been such a long time. We’ve had so much going on and we’ve been so busy that it’s been hard for me to actually sit down and WRITE!In April we got our pop up camper, something we’ve wanted for about 10 years. So that has been keeping us super busy as we’ve been camping with our pop up now almost every weekend. Thankfully, however, we’re taking a break
You know, I was talking to my husband about this recently. When I was a child we always used to plant things when Dad was home from the ship. Not much. A rather simple summer garden in Southern Maryland. It was always when he was home though, never when he was out to sea. The garden we did have when he was gone consisted of the most lovely Peonies. I
Last summer I meant to write about this but then I got caught up in all the hoopla from Hurricane Irene, the rush to get even more canning done, the busy schedule at work and home and all and well. I just never got to it. I’m sure many have heard about BPA which is short for Bisphenol A. Wikipedia has this to say on it. “BPA is controversial because
First let me say, I’m so relieved that I didn’t post more about our DIY greenhouse. It survived until about mid January when we had a snow/ice storm that caved in the top somewhat. The windstorm we had in February just finished the job on it. We did get a few fresh onions, some fresh greens, our leeks are just about ready to be pulled and made into soup or
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