Lately I’ve been thinking more and more that it would be great to have honey bees in the backyard. Two reasons actually. First and foremost is the honey production. Next reason however is because they’re great pollinators. Now here’s the big issue. I live on a military post. They govern what I can and cannot do in my yard and house. So today I approached them with the question. Can
Recently I intended on making a strawberry jam marinated pork chop recipe however that morning I completely forgot that we were supposed to marinate the pork chops according to the recipe we were using. I did have the pork chops out in the fridge though so I figured I might as well use them and see if I couldn’t just make up my own recipe. Now, I consider myself to
Okay first let me say that yes, we have been eating out of yard a lot. And from the farm nearby. And from the dairy. Now oddly enough, our grocery bill has barely gone down. My husband, Edward, and I think it’s simply from extras that we buy here and there. Plus, Edward has pointed out that many times we’ve gone shopping at Walmart instead of the Commissary or Shoprite
Saturday night in order to use up our excess cherry tomatoes we decided to have beef shish kabobs. Unfortunately I don’t have mushrooms going yet so the button mushrooms(blog coming soon on my new mushroom farm!) on this weren’t mine. However the onions and tomatoes were! We used black cherry and Christmas Grape tomatoes here along with onions picked that day from the back yard. I really gotta start leeks
We discussed this and decided, it was time to harvest one more of our Blue Hubbard squash. The most mature of the two. We have theorized that this squash plant cannot produce more than two at a time of squash so we took one off.I don’t know if this is a correct assumption,(please correct me if I’m wrong) I just know that our squash so far will not produce any
Whew…..let me say that again…WHEW! Lately life has been hectic. Full of harvesting each day and then choosing what is to be dried/dehydrated, what is to be canned and what is to be eaten as soon as possible. First I just want it known, at this moment I’m really SICK of eating tomatoes. I eat them for snacks, I eat them with dinner, I eat them for breakfast. Still more
This year I have encountered pests I NEVER knew existed! Here I thought aphids were the worst of my battles. Whew. I had a lot to learn. For all of these recipes I use (except for the ladybugs of course) a cheap Walmart spray bottle. Don’t need any kind of fancy sprayers. Aphids: Ladybugs: Whether I have to order them or they just naturally occur LadyBugs can cause massive death
So of course part of the reason I keep this blog in the first place is to simply keep track of what I have done wrong, what I have done right, successes, failures, and of course also my own opinion on each plant. This way I know which varieties NOT to grow the next year, which pests I need to be aware of and how to deal with those pests.
I’ve lost track of what week I’m on now with my little pets, the worms. Still though, every week I lovingly feed them all the scraps from the kitchen. Worrying over whether they will like the cherries better than the cucumber peels or the rotten peaches over the bell pepper parts. They honestly don’t really give me much feedback since they tend to eat it all. One of these days
Okay, so like I said, yes I will provide the recipes that I used to preserve the fruit and fruit. Now first thing, I have to say, not a single one of these recipes are mine. These are all borrowed from numerous places on the web. I’ve provided the link to the website that I borrowed the recipe from. Our first canning of the season was the strawberries we picked
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