I have a recipe for green tomato enchilada sauce that I will can and use when I make chicken enchiladas during the winter season. Here’s the recipe I will be using.
Category Archives: The Four Seasons Vegetable Garden
Seven Ways We are Saving Money and Time in the Garden
My husband and I are streamlining our gardening process with garden beds and saving money where we can.
Extending Your Fall Harvest Beyond the First Frost
Extending your garden beyond the normal autumn season is much like extending beyond the normal spring season except you are protecting bigger plants.
Planning the Fall Garden
I am feeling it’s time to plant my fall vegetable garden
Is Your Location too Small to Grow a Vegetable Garden?
You don’t need vast acreage to feed your families. Just yesterday I was remembering the first time I came through this part of Missouri in 1979. I came through at the end of July and I remember the numerous gardens I saw in backyards all throughout the state. That was what made me fall inContinue reading “Is Your Location too Small to Grow a Vegetable Garden?”
Spring: The Season of Constant Changes
Spring is planting season, but it is also the rainy season here in the Missouri Ozarks and the temperatures are more variable than in any other area of the country. It can be dry and hot early in the day and cold and rainy by the end of that same day. It can be rainingContinue reading “Spring: The Season of Constant Changes”
What Is Growing That I Didn’t Have to Plant this Year
One of the nice things about being a perpetual homesteader is that there are foods that I am now growing that I didn’t have to plant this year.
Switching From a Conventional Garden to Raised Beds
We have a 40×40 foot garden that has been in a conventional row system for the past two years, but this year, we plan to put in some smaller raised beds and will eventually replace the conventional garden with raised beds in the same area.
Support for Your Garden Plants
Some plants need structures to support a plant to go upwards. Fences, trellises, stakes, trees, corn, sorghum, and even hanging baskets are examples of verticals structures.
Pepper Plants from Seeds
The pepper transplants that I grow at home are healthier, sturdier seedlings than any I could purchase at a nursery. That means they’ll suffer less transplant shock, which often means better production.
The Perpetual Homesteader 