Greetings from the Garden! This CSA box has onions, garlic, rutabaga, kohlrabi, daikon or black radish, winter squash or pie pumpkins, beets, carrots and cabbage Field Notes. As I write this on Monday, snow is swirling around, and I join the snow day joy of school children. Snow acts as an insulating blanket over the garden and helps slow the frost dropping into the soil. The frost will affect how soon soil temperatures are warm …
Years ago Ken read in Mother Earth New that we should all be putting watermelon syrup on our pancakes because watermelon has a much higher sugar content than maple sap. He tried it and prefers maple syrup Since some watermelon matures when nights cool off and it no longer is what we crave, Ken cooks down some of it. He fills kettles with pulp, and once it comes to a boil he runs it through …
We have had some cold weather. And Ken got sick with tractors and wood splitter not working. A friend brought me a load of wood. Another helped stack it. And a third hosted me in her workshop and built (with a bit of help from me) a prototype of a sawbuck from my memory of one Ken and I had years ago. A Saw buck is an x-shaped sawhorse that holds longer …
