When it comes to harvesting basil, there is really no right way! Sometimes it's easy for beginner gardeners (ahem, that would be me 🙂 ), to think that there's only one particular way to do things. Most of the time, that simply is NOT TRUE. Anyhow, I digress; today I'm excited to show you my… Continue reading How to Harvest Basil for an Extended Growing Season
Last weekend, we found ourselves with too many tomatoes from our garden to use fresh. (A common situation gardeners find themselves in, I’m sure.) We didn’t have time to devote to canning them, so we opted to freeze them instead. I began preparing for our original tomato freezing procedure: which consisted of blanching them, dicing… Continue reading Freezing Tomatoes—the Insanely Easy Way
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