I haven’t posted here in a while, and the reason has simply been that I haven’t felt that I’ve had anything all that interesting to say. The idea of writing, lately, at least, has been about as attractive as the idea of getting all of my fingernails pulled out one by one by a burly [...]
Read more →In my post on making dill pickles, I waxed rhapsodic about my current favorite book about canning and preserving, Ashley English’s beautiful Homemade Living: Canning & Preserving with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Make Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Chutneys & More. So I figured I really should do a full-blown review. Ashley was [...]
Read more →Here’s a little slideshow I put together of how things are looking in the garden this week. Enjoy!
Read more →I don’t know about you, but I reach that point every summer, right around mid-August, where I can’t look at another bean. I don’t care if they’re yellow or green, or even the pretty purple ones I’m growing this year. That’s when it’s time to pull out the big guns: time to make some dilly [...]
Read more →So, as you can see from the photo, it wasn’t exactly a stellar month for my seed Grow project nasturtiums. It was ridiculously hot for most of July (half of the month, we hovered between 85 and 95 degrees here in Detroit — yuck) and I was much more focused on trying to make sure [...]
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