Author Archives: Slocum's Creak

I’ve done something a bit different today. To be honest I was hoping it would just show the whole booklet. It’s 44 pages and feels like it takes forever to download. However that being said, this is good information. It was put out in 1917 by the United States and Bureau of Plant Industry. BackContinue reading “Small vegetable gardening.”

Last year I found a tree growing in my yard, I’m assuming a bird or squirrel dropped the seed it started from. It’s pushing 12′ now. All Summer I’d give it a good long soaking about every week. After looking into it I figured out it was a shag bark hickory tree. I had aboutContinue reading “Shag bark hickory trees”

So anyways the gist of this entry, assuming I can ever finish. My 3 year old helper was pointing out the many, many grammatical mistakes while sitting on my lap and asking if he can fix them while reaching for my key pad. Lol Starting again on this post, it’s been nearly two years sinceContinue reading “Time for a cold frame?”

Like many I have limited storage space. So I’ve been moving more towards dehydrating  and vacuum packing. There’s advantages in both space saving and longer term storage of produce that would spoil rather quickly in comparison to fresh.   Early on I posted a little about dehydrating, while I had used a dehydrator for yearsContinue reading “Dehydrated Food revisited.”

I’m a bit premature with this one for sure but I’m gearing up to start my seedlings. I waited last season until I was supposed to have. However much of what I started last season from seed failed to produce. We had a pretty toasty Summer and it just got too hot too fast, soContinue reading “Starting seeds”

  I have often seen others questioning how they can best recycle or repurpose their old tin cans. Some of the cans that processed foods come in are aluminum and shouldn’t be a problem to recycle. Though that may depend on the salvage yard you have access to.   The one that is local toContinue reading “Recycling tin cans”

  Last year went out with a bang, or perhaps more of a whimper. Spent the last two weeks of 2022 being sick.   I finally broke down and went to the doctor, still having issues breathing but feeling better.   I’m starting out the new year with the dehydrator filled to capacity. I foundContinue reading “New year new beginnings.”

We’ve all seen the srories about re growing plants from left over pieces of produce. But does it work? I personally have had limited succes trying it, in fact unti only recently I’d had nothing but failures. But then I found part of a forgotten cabbage way back in the back of the fridge stillContinue reading “Growing plants from scraps?”

What do sweat potato leaves have to do with anything, your probably thinking. This is the first year I’ve grown sweat potatoes and I’m learning as much as I can about them. I have them growing in a few places around the yard. As those who have been following along for awhile knows, I’m workingContinue reading “Sweat potato leaves”

It seems everytime I commit to writting more I suffer from writters block. I struggle with what to write about, I tend to prefer writting specifically about things I am doing or have done. I feel I do a better job writting about what I already know. However I have decided that I can alsoContinue reading “Fences”