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Greatful for another year of blessings, laughter and love 🥳🤩👩‍🌾! Happy 48… tomorrow
05/30/2026

Greatful for another year of blessings, laughter and love 🥳🤩👩‍🌾! Happy 48… tomorrow

Husband comes home from work and says,”It smells like Christmas around here.” Just some chicken bone broth and some bro...
05/29/2026

Husband comes home from work and says,”It smells like Christmas around here.”

Just some chicken bone broth and some brown sugar and butter carrots that I’m canning.

He’s working on making a water tower for his garden railway.

Am I right or am I right 🙃🤣
05/28/2026

Am I right or am I right 🙃🤣

Best Beans for the Pantry 🫘 Over the last several years, I’ve decided that while growing green beans are fun and beauti...
05/27/2026

Best Beans for the Pantry 🫘

Over the last several years, I’ve decided that while growing green beans are fun and beautiful to trellis, my family has really enjoyed eating them with their dinners. A couple years ago I grew so many in the hopes of canning them. 2/3 of the way through summer we had several cases of green beans and they were just getting started. 🤣 so I decided to have a plan. It is finally time to replenish the stock.

As a season long goal, you try to grow 15 row feet of bush beans per person for fresh eating and preserving and another five row feet per person of pole beans with good care and regular harvesting. You would get a pound per row foot from the bush beans and slightly more from the pole varieties.

So what is a row feet? It is one linear foot of a planted row versus a square foot.

So how do you decide between bush or pole beans? What variety is best suited for your climate? And what about dry beans? Hopefully this guide below will help you decide which and how many to plant if you’re preparing to preserve for your garden this season.

🫘 Bush Beans like Provider and Yellow , mature quickly, usually 50 to 60 days and are great to plant earlier in the season.  The yield is usually about a half pound all at once. Succession planting is a must if you plan to get enough to preserve. But it is a great way to try out green beans if you don’t have a trellis.

🫘 Pole Beans tend to be large and numerous compared to bush beans. Blue lake variety produces straight 5 inch pods and perform best in mild summer climates. Kentucky wonder does better in heat yet. All pole beans are prone to shedding blossoms during heat waves. You can expect a yield of about a pound per plant over the growing season.

🫘Dry Beans or great high protein, vegetable, easy to grow and store. This year we are trying a black bean version called Trail of Tears.  it is best to let these beans dry on the vine in the pods, but if you must pull them once they are dried and stored them by stringing and hanging them at room temperature for at least two weeks or more. Remove the beans in store in an airtight container till use. 

A couple things to remember with beans ;

-they need a sunny well drained site
- seeds germinate between 16 and 70°F
-most people plant bush snap beans two or three times sowing three weeks apart and up to 10 weeks before your first frost is expected .

One of the most amazing things that beans do is nitrogen fixing. I typically grow my garlic in the spaces where I grew my beans in the fall.

Have you planted any beans this year? Will you try some new ones? Feel free to save this information and share it with some friends. 👩‍🌾






Choosing the Best Tomatoes for the Pantry 🫙 🍅 Planning for the preservation season will help you decide which of each va...
05/26/2026

Choosing the Best Tomatoes for the Pantry 🫙 🍅

Planning for the preservation season will help you decide which of each varieties will be best suited for your families needs based on climate and reliable production.

There are no standard numbers on pounds of tomatoes produced per plant because each yield varies with the climate and variety. A warm summer helps the tomatoes produce heavier crops while short and cool seasons mean, fewer tomatoes per plant.

In a climate that is moderately kind to tomatoes, estimate three plants per person for fresh eating or six plants per person if you are canning, drying and freezing your tomatoes. It is also important to grow the different types in proper balance.

For example, a two person household, might grow a total of 12 plants.

🌱 two early varieties for fresh eating and drying (Early Girl , Glacier )

🌱 two cherry tomatoes for fresh, eating, freezing and drying (Sun Gold, Mountain Magic)

🌱 six paste, tomatoes for canning (San Marzano, Amish Paste)

🌱 two slicing tomatoes for fresh eating and drying (Cherokee Purple, Abe Lincoln)

Cherry tomatoes are vigorous and easy to grow and set fruit under extreme cold or hot conditions.

Early tomatoes are essential because they ripen weeks ahead of other varieties.

Paste tomatoes are by far the best varieties to grow for making into salsa or sauce the fruits have thick walls and small seed cavities and tend to be uniform in shape and easy to peel the determinant varieties that produce all at once over a three week. period are best for canning.

Full season slicing tomatoes are so big and beautiful that it’s tempting to plant a lot of them especially if you have the space the pink fleshed Brandy👑 wine is just a viably famous for flavor and the orange Kellogg’s breakfast has a large and loyal following though the Cherokee purple are also fun to grow, but all are easy to dry.

I hope this information helps when choosing the perfect tomatoes to plant in your garden this year. We still have a few varieties left if you have some open space.



Reasons why I plant more than one ☝🏻 -Gophers-Weather-Insects-💩 happens
05/26/2026

Reasons why I plant more than one ☝🏻

-Gophers

-Weather

-Insects

-💩 happens

05/21/2026

Day 29 Turkey Incubation

Lockdown was on day 25. That was Sunday. Today is Thursday. I’m new to this. I know you’re not supposed to candle after lockdown nothing is happening.

No piping.

What would you do?

I need no other reason to grow our own food than to watch this smile form on my boys face after eating a carrot from the...
05/21/2026

I need no other reason to grow our own food than to watch this smile form on my boys face after eating a carrot from the garden 🪏

My heart is full ❤️

Something new I learned about growing peppers 🌶️ 🫑 While pepper seedlings are growing the plant parts; leaves and stems...
05/20/2026

Something new I learned about growing peppers 🌶️ 🫑

While pepper seedlings are growing the plant parts; leaves and stems,

-Remove flowers to prevent stunting their growth. This will tell your plant to continue growing its long roots.

-Cut stem between 3rd and 4th node to encourage branching.

-They love the heat but the fruit can scald when temperatures get above 95 so add shade cloth before temps start rising.

-Seedlings need consistent watering 2 times daily until established but hold back once the plant gets it’s roots established. Watering same as tomatoes long and deep drying out in between watering. Usually a few weeks after planting.

-Mulch is good to keep moisture in soil but keep at least 1-2” away from stem.

-Feed at least once every two weeks depending upon growth. N- high when growing roots stem and leaves, K- Phosphorus for flowering P- Potassium for photosynthesis and water management. If your leaves are yellowing at the margins try adding less nitrogen and more P.

-My favorite organic fertilizer is compost tea. Add broken down organic matter to a mesh laundry bag and add water. Steep daily till it really stinks 😷 2-4 weeks and then dilute 1/2 with water and add to base of plants. Watering same in.

Hope this helps and don’t forget to save and share this post to your page for reference later.

Happy gardening 🧑‍🌾 👩‍🌾🌱

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05/19/2026

Who’s going with me?

Flight ✅

Hotel ✅

Ticket 🎟️

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