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Cold Weather Seeds
With this insanely cold winter we’re having, I’ve been even more excited than usual to get back to gardening. Gardening around here (zone 6) usually starts with my birthday. My birthday is St. Patrick’s Day, so March 17th is when I always try to get my cold weather seeds planted. It’s colder than normal this…
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Why To Be Concerned About GMO Food
GMO is short for any “genetically modified organisms.” Currently genetically modified plants and genetically modified animals both exist. GMOs are created by using the DNA from different species of plants, animals, bacterias, and viruses and merging them together with gene splicing techniques. These GMOs can not be created naturally which means you can not achieve…
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Preparing the Garden for Winter
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Benefits of Sunflower Seeds
We’re a little sad around here because frost is coming, and it doesn’t look like our sunflower seeds are going to completely ripen in time. We planted the sunflower seeds late in the season because it took longer than anticipated to complete the construction of the garden beds. So we knew it was a long…
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10 Reasons to Eat More Sweet Potatoes
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How To Make Homemade Tomato Sauce
I learned a lot about cooking from my Italian Grandmother. She was a great cook. Unfortunately, she was also the messiest cook I’ve ever known. I think she used every single cooking item in her entire kitchen everytime she cooked. I believe this because she regularly left the cleanup to those of us who enjoyed…
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Asparagus
Asparagus is one of my favorite vegetables to grow, because it is the first thing to come up in the garden in spring. Asparagus is a perennial, which means that once you plant it, you don’t have to replant it. You purchase the plant as “asparagus crowns” which are little cut off plants with lots and…
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My Herb Garden
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It’s Garden Time Again!
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Sunflower Skyscrapers
We grew some mammoth sunflowers in the garden this year. The goats really love sunflowers and the fat and fiber are very good for them. I had no idea they would be so huge!!! Now granted, my children aren’t the tallest in the world – but still! Those are some tall sunflowers. They are just starting…
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Cabbage
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My Backyard
This is a partial view of my backyard. In the foreground is one of my gardens. We call it our trellis garden. This photo was taken on October 19th, so the garden is winding down. Remaining in this garden are turnips, peas, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, lettuce, basil and parsley. It was our first…