It’s garden time again!  I just love this time of year – even though it keeps me VERY busy.  I feel so productive caring for, harvesting and putting away things from the garden.  Two of the first crops to fill our home this summer have been zucchini and onions.
I haven’t had much experience putting either [...]

The green and orange peppers are finally coming on the garden.  Freezing them is such a snap that I can have a whole bucket done in about 15 minutes.  Wash, cut off the tops, take the seeds out, slice, parboil for three minutes, place in ice water, dry and freeze in ziptop bags.  It’s that easy!

We took [...]

Three LONG rows of green beans…..

One busy  pressure canner…..

Here and there over a  little more than a week, and we have over 80 beautiful quarts of beans put away.

And, apparently, we’re still counting.  So, any of my friends who live close by are welcome to come by “Westward’s Freebie Bean Pickin’ Garden”.  Take all you want as long as [...]

Garden #1 has been planted!  )  What do we hope to grow abundantly here?  Tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, onions, cucumbers, pickling cucumbers, green beans, snap peas, corn, squash, zuchinni, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce, beets, watermelon, cantelope, and honeydew.

Garden #2 will be planted soon.  The kids have already started their sunflower hideaway where you see the brick markers.  More corn [...]

Today will be short and sweet. Give your children the chance to grow a garden.

Even if you can only spare a 2×2’ plot of land, it will be worth it to your children! Let them do the entire garden from start to finish. Tilling the land, choosing the seeds, planting, watering, weeding and harvesting. [...]