Firesign Farm

The temps went down to 19 here for a couple of nights, so I'm so glad I'd gotten the carrots and potatoes dug up the day before (bot...

I've been asked to join a simple-life co-operative blog writers group. People all over the world are worried about the state of the worl...

It was a blustery cold day, with a dusting of snow just before nightfall. I'm soooo glad everything from the garden is snug inside (exce...

Piccalilli is a green tomato sweet relish. My dad's side of the family is from Texas, and you can't eat black-eyed peas and cornbrea...

Forecasted low for tomorrow night is 25 last I looked, so I was out in the garden again today trying to pick/dig/store most everything that ...

Sweet husband did a little motorcycle outing today. Since I have quite a few searchers turn up my blog looking for Sierra Nevada leaf-change...

No freeze yet - it only went down to 35. The harvest continues, just not quite so frantically. I have a red seedless Reliance grapevine, abo...

Our first freeze is predicted for Sunday night, and we've had intermittent rain sprinkles the past couple of days (the guineas must have...

When I was in Colorado in May, Mom gave me some vintage pattern transfer sheets. No envelopes or other identifying names - just the big news...

I'm staying busy, trying to get my harvest in while the weather holds for me. Of course, the longer we go without a killing frost, the m...

Today was a busy day - I was up early and off to a Soroptimist District Meeting in Yerington, about 90 minutes drive away. Plus, it was hot ...

The harvest continues. When the first onions started to flop over, I pulled the soaker hose off them and bent the rest of them down. After a...

It's the time of year when I try for a delicate balance of harvesting. I want to let everything get as ripe as possible, but also don...

The autumnal equinox, the first day of fall - our nights are getting colder, but today was a beautiful day, not too hot, not too cold. I sho...

In these recipes, do not change the ratio of tomatoes (acidic) to the rest of the vegies (non-acidic), and don't forget to add the lemon...

Finally, I found enough ripe tomatoes down in the center of my plants, and put up 5 pints whole tomatoes (I also found a few Asian pears tha...

As I was coming up our street towards the house yesterday, I noticed that the leaves on one of the Honey Locust trees have started to turn t...

Just a quick little post today - got lots of things to do. The shallots are all cured, and hung up in an net stocking (like oranges come in...

I always start a few sweet basil plants in Spring, and plant them out in the tomato and pepper bed. I start picking leaves as soon as possib...

A lot of the garden is behind its usual ripening schedule. I think maybe the weeks of smoke-darkened skies earlier this summer might have se...