Hopi Lima beans
My Hopi orange Lima beans have been growing very well and they are terrific producers of flowers and beans, on good strong vines. The pods are smaller than the King […]
Category Archives: Garden/Yard
Dylan made pickles!
Eliza said Dylan wanted cucumbers cos he was going to make refrigerator pickles. Wait, you said what, he’s doing what? What? He wasn’t very interested in the garden all summer. […]
Freezing collards
If you grow and love collards, and have never frozen any, you should. I clean them and tear them into small pieces, then cook them about 20 minutes. Drain, cool, […]
Freezer pickles, yea, really
My husband’s old grandmother, the lady who taught me the small amount I know about canning, used to make a thing called freezer pickles. They weren’t canned, not even cooked, […]
Our bean pergola
I wrote a post in the spring about two engineers building a trellis. https://sarasinart.net/2015/04/19/so-two-engineers-built-a-trellis/ It was unfair to this great structure to call it a trellis, cos a trellis is […]
More amazing stuff in the garden
There’s always fun and fascinating stuff going on in the garden. There’s been more of all that the last couple days. Above is a picture of one fascinating […]
Supper will be good, with leftovers
It’s so good to pick so much of a meal from the garden. No, I didn’t raise the hog for a ham hock, lol; that came from a wonderful […]
Maybe I need a bigger pickin’ basket
It was a bounty this morning. It was a little dicey picking the little sugar baby tomatoes which are right next to the black eyed peas, with the yellow jackets […]
Saint Francis and Saint John
Years ago I got a St. John’s wort plant, just cos it was something else interesting to have growing. It took a long time to spread out, but it covers […]
Time to eat black eyed peas
They get really big plants before they start to produce flowers and then bean pods, but they’re worth waiting for. Cook them in water about 10 minutes, while you fry […]
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