By Snickers Let me tell you, mistakes can be tasty! I was at the nursery stocking up on plants for my garden and bought a lovely bunch of snowball cabbage seedlings. I took them home and planted them in my garden. Imagine my surprise when I realized about a week later that I didn't have cabbage but cauliflower - the flat had been mislabeled! I found out two things. Young … [Read more...]
Snicker’s Easy Sweet Refrigerator Pickles
By Snickers Cucumbers are always the last thing I plant in my garden. I sow the seed June 10th and that way I have cucumbers in the fall when the tomatoes are ready. As the old saying goes, if you have one cucumber you have many, so it's time for making pickles! This is a very simple recipe that only takes about two hours from start to finish ( minus the cucumber growing … [Read more...]
Adventures in Gardening, Part the Third
By Jennie We last left our intrepid heroine (that would be me) fighting off Topsy-Turvy related anxiety while attempting to grow tomatoes. Alas, that tale did not end well; we got one lousy cherry tomato before the Topsy-Turvy succumbed to the lure of gravity (that sucker was heavy) and the experiment was declared finito. Let us never speak of it again. Undaunted, I … [Read more...]