Done Done the Can Can!

I have now canned (which seems like a silly term, to me, since you’re really putting the food into JARS) two batches of fig preserves, following my grandmother’s recipe.

Canning for Dummies

So yeah. I seriously know nothing about being a gardener. It apparently helps to check the internet before just ASSUMING that all figs are the same. I was asking my grandmother what they were supposed to look like when they were ripe, and she said brownish, but if you can leave them until they turn purple, [...]

The Farmer in the Dell

What the heck is a Dell anyway? Maybe I should Google it to find out. Anyway, we’ve just committed our first “farmer-like” act… I harvested our first “crop” hehe.
The new house we bought used to have a veggie garden and some fruit trees. The garden went by the wayside since the house was vacant for [...]