This is a great one for extra melons! Nothing to freezing your surplus fruits. Wash, peel (as needed), cut into smallish pieces (again,...

Oh, and they're a great activity for kids! "C" is for carrot! I love to plant pieces of my carrot seed tapes in between my tomato vines...

It ain't all going to be pretty. You will (repeat WILL) have one problem or another. This is third and final installment of a series on...

Very much like black eyed peas, a cream pea (this variety is called "zipper") is a legume growing on a shortish plant. It can be picked...

Among the other things in the lawn (such as clover and grasses), I have seeded in some perennial flowers. This is part 2 of a series on...

When I bought my house 6 years ago, I hadn't gardened a day in my life. In fact, moving out to the Eastern Plains of Colorado was the...

Warm toasted walnuts, just pulled from the oven. I have a quick tip for you: buy nuts when they're on sale (like around Christmas for...

When I first started making homemade candy, I used the old school method where you have that measuring cup full of ice water constantly...

Do you like those Swiss truffles you see in the store? You know the ones, they have master Swiss chocolatier on the package and they're...

Holidays all too often come near the end of the school semester (a busy time for us teachers), and they always come with a lot of food...

One year's yield from two sweet potato towers. Purple, white, and Georgia Jet sweet potatoes It's really cold and windy out here on the...

It's good to have friends. It's better, if you're a gardener, to have friends that operate feedlots. The reason why is that you can...

I live on the Eastern Plains of Colorado and decided a few years back to try growing figs. My part of the Plains is in Zone 5, and I...

My wife doesn't eat any gluten, hasn't since before I knew her and we started dating.  I do.  I can't imagine not being able to eat wheat...

A cold snap came to the Eastern Plains of Colorado (Zone 5) recently, with plenty more on the way. By now the leaves are mostly off the...

I've been working on double cropping** for a while now.  I started with legumes (both to refresh the soil and to get a second crop). I...

A great, simple recipe for roasted sweet potatoes.

A couple favorites: my ollas and chollas Out here on the Plains where wind whips the 90 degree air around for days on end, with no rain...

It's about that time of year: took the shadecloth off my honeyberries now that we're reliably below 85 for a high. What was under...

I'm reviving my dried starter (the one that is pure bread flour as opposed to the one that's mixed dark rye and bread flours) and it's...