Teacher Appreciation Gifts
Sarah gave her coworkers homemade soap as part of Teacher Appreciation Week gifts. I thought they turned out really well. Sarah’s Homemade Soap
Spring Has Sprung! April Garden Update
The greenhouse is doing a great job of growing lettuce, arugula and radishes (in the corner that you can’t see). We also have our pepper and tomato seedlings back outside. They’ve been travelling between our house and the greenhouse a few times this spring due to the warm days but freezing nights. Harvesting radishes in
New Homemade Soap Molds
We have been making our own soap since 2013 using baking dishes and boxes as the molds. It does work, but we wanted to make some nice soap molds that we could rely on. I looked around on youtube and this video from Rob’s Garage Woodworking is the design that I used. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGOa8LeGMRI Each mold
Peppers In The Greenhouse
We thought we did well with bell peppers last year, but we ran out quickly. We usually dice and freeze them at the end of the season. Well, this year we have vowed to plant more and try to grow enough to last the year. We have over 3 dozen pepper plants growing in the
Elderberry Cuttings
We bought 12 Elderberry cuttings from riverhillsharvest.com. We purchased 4 cuttings each of Ranch, Bob Gordon, and Wyldewood1 cultivars. You can learn more about elderberry from Doug and Stacy on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FTntso3V0A Elderberry cuttings are in water, but will go in the ground as soon as we are in no danger of frost. I had to
Asparagus Finally Coming Up
We finally have asparagus stalks coming up (about 10 stalks so far). This is only their second year and it’s recommended to harvest lightly this year. We planted one bed each of red and green asparagus, but I forgot which cultivars we planted at the moment. Red Asparagus
The Secret To Easy Peeling Hard Boiled Farm Fresh Eggs
We have been trying different ways to hard boil our fresh eggs so that they peel easily. We’ve tried adding vinegar to the water, dunking them in ice water, using a steamer basket, and just letting the eggs sit in the fridge so they ‘age’ a few weeks before hard boiling them. None of those
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Starting Pepper Seeds In January
We have tried growing bell peppers from seed for a couple years and we can never get them to consistently germinate because it is too cold. We would end up buying seedlings, which can be pretty expensive compared to the cost of seeds. This year we are trying out a 10 x 20.75 inch seedling
No-Knead Rosemary Skillet Bread
We have been working on a no-knead bread recipe that we can make with minimal effort and few ingredients. This bread is SO much better than any store bought bread we’ve ever tasted, and it costs less than $1.50/loaf to make. We’ve had success baking this in our tiny propane oven in a 12” or
2017 Garden Harvest Summary
Our gardening is pretty much done for this year, but surprisingly there are still broccoli, cabbage, kale, spinach, cauliflower and lots of cilantro still slowly growing. In March of this year we started weighing our garden harvests and keeping a simple log that includes the date, fruit/vegetable, and weight of everything we harvested. We currently