Dear Neighbor, The two most versatile canned sauces are spaghetti and salsa. While spaghetti sauce can be used in a lot of recipes, I find salsa even more versatile. You can use salsa as a dip,salad dressing, a cracker spread, a soup or casserole base, a condiment poured over omelettes, scrambled eggs, scrambled egg wraps,…
It has been my tradition that sometime Valentines week, I get to start something I love: gardening for the new year.
As soon as the gift wrap is cleared and the cookie crumbs are vacuumed, I move right on past the holidays as if they never existed. I know that is kind of sad, but it is how I cope with winter and one has to move on, right?
Having the homestead spirit as I do, my desire is to have food growing as long as possible. There is still time to get two more rounds of gardening in: a late summer and fall garden.
Dear Neighbor, Why is one of the easiest vegetables to grow the so under appreciated? It is kind of like the Rodney Dangerfield of vegetables, often joked about and gets no respect. I really don’t see why and will declare publicly: I am a fan. The hardest thing about the zucchini is remembering how to spell…
Dear Neighbor, I love basil and in my opinion you just can’t have too much! If you pick it often and correctly, you can be picking basil all summer. Much like pruning a shrub, nip the stems right above a junction of new smaller leaf growth. Then the stems will branch out from that place…
Dear Neighbor, “Seed saving can quickly become a hobby and you’ll be in good company. Seed saving teaches us about the wonder of nature and by saving seeds, we complete the circle of growing. What a marvelous way to end the garden season and look forward to next year’s crops. What’s more, seed saving is…
Cascadian Farms share natural weed and pest control techniques.
