Poor little mouse

The shallots are just poking their heads up.  They look like grass just now and I must remember not to pull them.  Shallots will be a nice mild substitute for onions and are not so hard to digest.

Would you believe it…already have so many strawberries I have to dehydrate to preserve them for winter.  Wash berries, drain, slice them in half lengthwise, fill three web-type  trays,  set the temp to low, and off they go! Ready in about 6 hours. Then store in quart jars with caps and vacuum seal. Added rings…

First plant just poked through today!!

Planted beets today.  Beets like it cool and moist.  Packet says seeds 3 inches apart with rows 6 inches apart.  Save space by planting seeds 3 inches apart, in rows 6 inches apart but with an additional row in between with seeds 3 inches apart diagonally. That comes to 3 rows in a one-row garden…

Just noticed some random garlics that I failed to dig up last year. When the whole bulb is left in the ground like these, they produce tightly-bunched tiny bulbs. They are hard to peal and should not be planted as next year’s seeds. They are putting up scapes already. Scapes  are long, curled spikes with…

Turnips have sprouted!  Probably a 90% germination rate.  It hurts my soul to have to thin them, but they grow larger with more space around them.