Beans:  [Dvds on strings really scare the birds away!] Purple Teepee - Pole beans.   Loved them from 2016.  Easy to shell. Kentucky Wonde...

This year I added 20 lbs of sweet cherries to my fruit order and was thrilled at how fabulous they were.   Sweet cherries travel much bett...

I'm trying a new fruit this year in the veg garden - garden huckleberries , Solanum melanocerasum . [Pic:  Rareseeds.com] These are diff...

I got four new little fruit trees from Stark Bros this fall.   They were on sale so I got two plums, a fig [Chicago Hardy] and an apricot...

This year I tried two new melon varieties [new to us, that is].  Charentais and Uzbek Sweetness.   I got both types from Baker Creek   a...

Since the peaches are so doggoned gorgeous this year, I decided that the one bushel we'd cut up for the freezer wasn't enough.   S...

All six of my elderberry starts are alive.  This is the happiest one.  We planted it just up from the chicken coop at a place that gets ...

I've been wanting elderberry bushes forever.  For. Ever. We bought some nice expensive ones years ago, but they died.   Since they...

Remember those cherry trees that Eric bought on sale last summer ?    They're doing very well.    The Montmorency got sunburned and ...

While I was making those individual Sussex Pond Puddings , I thought I'd really put a Hoosier twist to it and make some with other ...

Pectin is what makes your jam and jelly jell.  It occurs naturally in a lot of fruit [see below], but as fruit ripens, it loses the pect...

I love fruit salads with unexpected twists.  One of the best salads I've ever had was a simple mango salsa.  Mango Salsa 4 mangoes c...

Whenever possible I use fresh, local fruit for my jams. But the truth is, sometimes you just can't get the fresh fruit you need, when ...

I've been wanting this book by Cory Schreiber and Julie Richardson for ages.  I found it on Amazon but hadn't had a chance to lo...

One of the great joys of this season for me is pomanders.    I love them.   I love them with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns.   S...

This was Sakata's Sweet a couple of weeks ago.    They stay small - just larger than a softball. The one in the photo below is sitti...

They're starting to get ripe!    This is what they looked like last week..... And this is what they look like when we open them... ...

Prescott Fond Blanc melons are pretty interesting looking.  It's not your typical netted muskmelon.  These are sectioned and warty.    D...

I grew a bunch of new kinds of melons this year.    Here is how they are progressing... These are Sweet Passion.   So far they look like s...