Category Archives: Gardening

Zesty Salsa

Zesty Salsa

I found a recipe on the Ball canning website called Zesty Salsa and I was intrigued.  It involved water bath canning, which I was thinking about trying this year, and it also had a smaller half batch recipe that I liked.  I am not keen on making huge vats of anything for the first time, so […]

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Homemade tomato sauce

Homemade Garden Sauce

My husband came home from helping his brother in Maine talking about a fantastic tomato sauce that Casey from Friends of Willow made them for dinner.  Bill does not like red sauce, so I knew I had to get the recipe from Casey.  It turns out that she makes her own sauce without a recipe, […]

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Around the Garden

It has been a busy summer!  The garden has been growing and we have been harvesting beans, potatoes & cukes regularly.  We are now starting to see some of the summer vegetables and flowers start to develop. Hopefully the deer will find someone else’s vegetables to eat this year especially since it looks like we […]

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