Canning is fabulous. Get the Ball Blue Book--it's the canning/food preservation safety bible. Also, I'd be happy to teach you/hang out for your first canning go-round.
How did your tulips fail?
I do some companion planting. The second planting of pole beans will go into the first planting of corn--bean vines use the corn stalks as stakes. Another is pumkins and corn--the corn stalks help shade the growing pumpkin fruits. (I can't do that one myself--yard is too small for pumpkins!) Strawberries and borage are classic--the borage sweetens the fruit. My personal favorite: ringing my cucumbers and beans with marigolds as slug & snail bait. Tough on the poor marigolds, but highly effective in keeping the cukes and beans from getting eaten to death before they get a chance to grow big.
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Date: 2009-05-01 09:33 pm (UTC)How did your tulips fail?
I do some companion planting. The second planting of pole beans will go into the first planting of corn--bean vines use the corn stalks as stakes. Another is pumkins and corn--the corn stalks help shade the growing pumpkin fruits. (I can't do that one myself--yard is too small for pumpkins!) Strawberries and borage are classic--the borage sweetens the fruit. My personal favorite: ringing my cucumbers and beans with marigolds as slug & snail bait. Tough on the poor marigolds, but highly effective in keeping the cukes and beans from getting eaten to death before they get a chance to grow big.