storing food

  • Storing red currants for winter

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    rollinggarden

    June is red currant time. Like all berries, currants don’t ripe all at the same time, so they can be hard to store for winter. The usual way of storing them is to freeze them in bags or processed them…

  • Mama bear has had enough

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    rollinggarden

    This has been a really difficult year for the seedlings and potted vegetables. The beginning of the spring was very cold, which didn’t allow our seedlings to grow as they should. After the cold, came unusually warm months, and we’ve…

  • Changes bring big harvests

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    rollinggarden

    We all strive to grow big and beautiful pieces of vegetables. We want perfect lettuce heads, big cabbages, long carrots, and lots of beans and peas per plant. But, what if we notice that no matter what we do we…