Every fall, I seem to end up with the same problem. Frost is approaching, but there are still plenty of green peppers growing in our garden. This year was no exception. We grow cayenne peppers every year to make our homemade fermented cayenne pepper hot sauce, so I really didn’t want to lose the remaining
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Sunflowers are my wife’s favourite flower. That’s why you see them all over our website, including our favicon. We grow sunflowers every year for their beauty and for the bees, so I learned how to harvest sunflower seeds to save for next year’s garden. Saving sunflower seeds will save you money and is surprisingly simple
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Every year we grow more jalapeños than we know what to do with. After pickling them, making cowboy candy and saving seeds for next year’s garden, fermenting them has become another way for us to preserve the harvest. This time, instead of making our usual cayenne hot sauce, we made fermented jalapeño hot sauce with
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Saving marigold seeds is one of the easiest ways to collect seeds from your garden. Marigolds were one of the first plants I learned to save seeds from. Once the flowers have finished blooming and the flower heads have dried, you can pull them apart and find dozens of seeds tucked inside. I grow marigolds
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We grow cucumbers in our Zone 5 garden, but if I’m being fair, they aren’t one of our most reliable crops. We usually get some, but not enough at once for a good batch of pickles. For this batch of fermented pickles, I picked up fresh pickling cucumbers from a local farm stand. Fermented pickles
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