If you’re based in Oregon and want to know more about growing blackberries, you couldn’t find a better resource. Many University extensions also publish reports specific to different farm products. They may include estimates for production costs and returns, like this Crop Budgets page on the...
Use a footstool or other means to raise your knees higher than your hips. Whether you're using a footstool or your feet are on the floor, plant them firmly. Practice breathing through your mouth to avoid straining. Don't tighten your stomach, but push it out as you take a breath. Rel...
Lime plants are a smaller version of the familiar lime citrus tree but they don't need a tropical climate to produce delicious fruit. Pruning Blackberries For A Bigger Harvest: How-To Guide Pruning blackberry bushes can be prickly, but it's worth doing for a bigger harvest of juicy berries...
Sugars are "simple" carbohydrates. They are closest to the completely broken down form that your body uses as fuel. In fact, glucose itself is the simplest sugar. So the body converts sugar directly into usable energy. Pure sugar foods, such as hard candies and soft drinks, raise your blo...
him now, awaiting his next orders like the faithful servant he was. Indeed, the tired, flat expression on his worn countenance exuded such a nimbus of loyalty, such an eagerness to please, that Westermont reminded himself to raise the man’s salary. One pence per week would do the trick...
Theremustbe food in the wilderness. After all, birds and squirrels are eating something. Some of it sounds surprisingly similar to their plastic wrapped relatives:wildstrawberries,blackberries,asparagus,onions, andminer’slettuce. Some things seem totally lacking. I have never foundminer’scroutonsor...
In addition to the tomatoes & pumpkins I grew tomatoes, eggplants, watermelon, cantaloupe, blackberries and several varieties of gourds for eating. It was wildly successful. Now that the tiered garden is in place, I can replant it for years to come. The ground is clear. The ground is le...
allow for plenty of growth of the bushes, and for mowing between the rows).(Note from several years later: I would now plant the bushes with only about 3′ between them, as my plants have not grown as big as I had hoped they would. You’ll have less real estate to weed that way...
On top of that, we have a big garden and fruit and nut trees. Other times of the year we usually are raising an animal for meat. We either raiselambsormeat chickens. Right now we are looking for some spring lambs to raise, but we haven’t found the right one yet. ...
but since we didn’t raise our own chickens, the eggs had to be purchased. Cooking for thirty or forty people at a time uses up a lot of eggs when you’re making egg-rich dishes. So here, too, Finnish pancake was a rare treat. It was made even more rare by the fact that a lo...