Projects
Refreshing the Keyhole Garden in Winter
January is the perfect time for cleaning and repairing the keyhole garden and transplanting cold-hardy seedlings for late winter/early spring 2025 harvest
Bottling Batch 24 Fermented Hot Sauce (Part 1)
After 4 months of fermentation, the peppers seem to have stalled out, so it's time to process and bottle the first half of my Batch 24 slow fermented hot sauce.
Crafting a DIY Haven Through Backyard Photo Journaling
Online scrapbooking and photo journaling isn't about creating perfect images, it's about discovering and documenting the small wonders that surround us daily.
Batch 24 Fermented Hot Sauce Pepper Addition Number 7
A nighttime cold snap brought frost and the hot peppers dropped their flowers, so this is the last fresh pepper addition for Batch 24 fermented hot sauce.
Batch 24 Fermented Hot Sauce Pepper Addition Number 6
Moving into mid-autumn and the days are warm, the nights are cool and the hot peppers for the fermented hot sauce are still going strong. Adding 8oz this week.
Batch 24 Hot Sauce Pepper Addition Number 4
Early autumn, unlike the end of summer, has been mild and the Fish peppers are producing more heavily than every. This week's addition will be heavy on them.
Batch 24 Hot Sauce Pepper Addition Number 3
Heat shocked the Cayenne peppers, so my third addition of hot peppers to Batch 24 of the fermented hot sauce will be mostly Hinkelhatz and Fish peppers
Sage’s Patented Beer Can Coyote Alarm
I had a problem with a coyote sneaking in at night to eat my poultry, so I came up with a simple alarm system using empty beer cans and a noise detector
Starting Batch 24 Slow Fermented Hot Sauce
Batch 24 of my slow fermented hot sauce began this week with 6 different hot peppers - Cayenne/Thai, Aleppo, Cayenne, Fish, and Hinkelhatz. Fingers crossed!
Make a Garden Twine Dispenser from a Gourd
If you use twine in your garden, then you could probably use a twine dispenser. Here's how to make one quickly and easily with a gourd and a few simple tools