Monthly Archives: September 2011

It’s probably A Girl, Applesauce, Dried Apples, Iroquois White Flour, Homestead Orchard & Canning.

The week has been a busy one.  On Wednesday we had our 20 week ultrasound just to check and make sure, once more, that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the kid we are growing.  All absolutely normal, and to … Continue reading

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Terhune Tomato, Regular Leaf

In an odd year of poor weather, there was an odd-ball that has piqued my interest. Since I started growing Terhune tomatoes some years ago, from every large flat of starter plants, there has been the occasional regular leaf plant, … Continue reading

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A New Mochata Squash

A few years ago I tried growing butterbush squash.  They did not fare well, but it was a cold crappy summer and no squashes did well.  What they did do was manage to mature a few squash, which most were … Continue reading

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Victor Kucyk 2175, HGS

Victor Kucyk is a corn breeder of the old style, combing existing traits from varieties of corn to develop open pollinated variable strains that you can then reselect and adapt to your own area. Funny, but this was how corn … Continue reading

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Apples!

Saturday was too beautiful to stay around our own yard, and with the loss of much of my tomatoes, we needed to get out and do some serious food gathering. Every fall, usually starting later in the month, we start … Continue reading

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Odd Week

And I am not sure how else to think of it. We had a summer freeze this week.  That was not a good thing.  It took out about 130 tomato plants that were finally starting to produce well.  All of … Continue reading

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Shelling Wamneheza & Painted Mountain Corn, Picking Dakota Rainbow Flint and Iroquois White Flour Corn

Sorry it has taken me a bit to get this updated.  Has been a busy week. Corn has been coming in.  My old truck is covered in cobs drying down.  The backseat of my car is full of bags of … Continue reading

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Midweek Processing

I called Frank on my way home from the office to see if he had gotten out to the Minnetonka garden to pick tomatoes.   He really enjoying doing a few big pots of red sauce made from only Reisentraube and … Continue reading

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Harvesting & Eating

The entire week before the weekend involved harvesting.  Tomatoes are finally coming in quantity so for dinner I would pick tomatoes out of the home garden, make a pot of red sauce, we would all eat as much as we … Continue reading

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