Firesign Farm

I didn't get much of a fruit crop this year. Just about every time something else came into bloom last Spring, we'd get another free...

Another annual tomato processing project around here is canning a batch of enchilada sauce. I grow and dry my own peppers (and the onions, g...

In my garden every year, one 50' soaker hose bed is the "Fruiting Bed". This includes my tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and chil...

Aries is on vacation for two weeks. He always takes vacation time in October, ever since our honeymoon (it was our 19th anniversary, earlier...

Aries is on vacation for two weeks so he's around the house, getting in my way, and helping out. It was nice today, so he was out in the...

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...