October collards are the best
By October it has cooled off some and the plants are making smaller leaves, but they’re sweeter and more tender. Since I’ve been pulling leaves from the bottom of the […]
Tag Archives: collard greens
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, […]
Sweet September collards
I don’t like to face the end of gardening, (and picking and eating) but some things still go on for a little while. I have Lima beans forming in huge […]
Time to eat collard greens!
Sometimes you need to take a whole plant for a bigger “pot o’ greens.” To be the best kind of pot of greens, it would need to include a long-simmered […]
Dehydrating carrots and other good things
5 pounds of carrots before………….. ………..and after. Took almost 8 hours, cos this was a lot of carrots. I’ve also done a batch of carrots and celery mixed, and some […]
Collards, up close and personal
Now’s when the things growing inside the rabbit fence start to look more interesting……..interesting enough to make a rabbit make a plan! Let’s see what happens now……..and how my rabbit fence really works.
Grafted cherry tree
There is an old cherry tree in the yard that used to be half white and half pink flowers. Some of the grafted part has died out over the years […]
Nesco food dehydrator
I had a food dehydrator for years, one with just an element and no fan. Used it only seldom for some tomatoes and hot peppers cos it took forever to work. Now I’m […]
Collard Greens
These 64 years I have never eaten collard greens. For some reason I thought there was something not tasty about them, or tough, or whatever stories I had heard, that turned out […]
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