How Are YOU Preserving and Canning the Fall Harvest? Making Peach Jam Peaches are wonderful fruit to turn into jam. Going to the local peach festival and getting the fresh peaches directly from the farmer who grew them is one of the pleasures of the fall harvest. Pears also come into season at this time [...]
How Do You Prevent Back Pain By Vegetable Gardening In Raised Beds? Emily looked forward to another summer of vegetable gardening but wondered whether she would be able to do much this year since throwing her back out. Recovery had been slow and the pain in her back was awful, sometimes going through her knee [...]
How Much Water Do You Need For A Small Garden? That depends. How large is the plant? How many plants do you need to water? Has it rained in the last week or have you had a bit of a dry spell? Are they in the ground or containers? Rain water or tap water? These [...]
Kate loved the look of the old stone troughs and planters that she saw at her neighbours house. She knew her neighbours didn’t have alot of money but they kept getting these stone containers. One day, Kate looked into the cost of buying a small stone-like container called a Hypertufa pot. She couldn’t believe how [...]
