Whether you grow your own potatoes, purchase in bulk from the farmers’ market, or snag a great deal at the supermarket, a day of prep can fill your freezer full of potato French fries ready to bake or air fry quickly for meals. Potatoes have been relied on for centuries as a great crop for…
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How to Grow an Indoor Garden
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Whether you are craving fresh harvests during the winter or live in an area without gardening space, you can grow edibles in your own indoor garden. Winter always seems to sneak up on me. It’s not until the first snowfall that I consider the growing season over. Up until then, I am still clipping hearty…
Vegetable Garden Planning: Choosing Vegetables to Grow
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When planning your vegetable garden, it is so easy to get excited about the wide variety of crops in the seed catalogs. Here are some tips to help you with choosing vegetables to grow. Deciding which vegetables to grow in your garden can be a lot of fun. Especially when you are looking over seed…
Grow Herbs Indoors: 5 Herbs that Thrive Inside
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Even if you don’t have outdoor gardening space, there are plenty of herbs that you can grow indoors successfully on a sunny windowsill. If you do grow herbs in your garden, fall is a great time to think about starting an indoor windowsill herb garden to grow herbs indoors so you can enjoy their fresh…
Spiced Apple Jelly Recipe (No Added Pectin)
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This spiced apple jelly recipe livens up the plain apple flavor with some traditional pairings including lemon juice, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. After tasting the tart and sweet flavor combination of crab apple jelly, the jelly I made from regular apples tasted bland to me. The abundance of this year’s apple harvest allowed for a little…
Granny’s Bread and Butter Pickles Recipe
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These bread and butter pickles have a crisp texture and a balanced sweet and sour flavor. The sweet and tangy crunch is irresistible. “I love pickles!” Kevin said as I planned the garden soon after moving to our property. With this in mind, I planned on growing a bunch of pickling cucumbers. I was not a…
Grow Herbs Indoors: Potting Up Chives
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Chives have a mild onion flavor and are delicious eaten raw on salads or as a colorful garnish. Late summer into early fall is a great time for potting up chives into containers to grow indoors. Grow chives all year even when the garden is under snow. Chives are one of the most dependable herbs in the…
Roasted Tomatillo Salsa Verde for Canning
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Canning roasted tomatillo salsa is a great way to preserve the abundance of tomatillos that the garden produces. Jars of tomatillo salsa verde come in handy for all your favorite Mexican dishes. I planted tomatillos for the first time in the garden last year. I thought about four plants would be a good number to…
Canning Diced Green Chile Peppers
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Whether you have a bumper crop in your garden or decided to buy in bulk, roasting and pressure canning chile peppers is a great way to preserve them. Home canned chile peppers are handy to have available to add to your favorite chilies and Mexican inspired meals. The jars can be stored on dark pantry…
13 Quick Growing Vegetables for Your Fall Garden
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Instead of watching your summer crops struggle to ripen the last few fruits, pull them out and plant some of these quick growing vegetables for your fall garden. The vegetable garden shines in summer with abundant harvests. As fall approaches, most of the summer crops begin to wind down. Cooler nighttime temperatures and diminishing…