‪August is my favorite month of the year for so many reasons. My wedding anniversary, my birthday, my husband's birthday, and my twin sons' half birthday is all in August. Yes, we count the half birthday. (This matters to some children.) August is the month of the Indiana State Fair which I love attending annually and on multiple days during each year. Unfortunately, corona stole the fair from us. August is also the month where I tend to harvest a lot of produce. Let's check

Maybe you are saying to yourself that our last zucchini recipe was a little too involved. You just want something simple, right? I hear you. I wish I could tell you that every night we have these wonderfully complex harvest meals, but that isn't reality. Jerry and James are now in second grade and in the same class for the first time in elementary school. Trying to get through homework, house chores, gardening, family time, dinner, and a bath each night is tough. When we

For the last several years, zucchini has been a staple in our garden. This year, we changed it up a bit by growing yellow zucchini instead of the traditional green zucchini. I love the bright color and the taste is great. Besides the zucchini that was devoured by a garden pest, we were able to harvest 10 medium to large sized yellow zucchini this season. That's a lot of meals where I can incorporate this veggie. This means I need to diversify how I use it, so dinner doesn

Each year, I typically vent about aphids and the cabbage butterfly. The insects have been pretty low key this year and haven't done much damage. This year, it's the four-footed pests that are out of control. Normally, the only thing I cover in my garden is greens to stop the cabbage butterfly from laying eggs on them and my strawberries to keep birds away. This year, I have had to cover a lot more because of rabbits and chipmunks. I purchased cloches to cover my basil and

My dad ordered the book, The Amish Cook’s: Family Favorite Recipes. I looked through the book and found a zucchini pie recipe. I thought this was a creative way to use zucchini and the pie was delicious. For my modified version of Lovina Eicher's recipe, click here. For information on ordering the book, click here. #zucchini #pie

As I stated in my previous post, I had to acquire some bell peppers from my parents' garden since my bell pepper plant grew but did not bear any peppers. I love stuffed peppers, but have never cooked any. I decided to find a recipe for the peppers I picked. If you know me, you know I cannot stick to a recipe; I love to modify. Click here for my version of this yummy stuffed peppers recipe. As a bonus, I was able to use some of a zuchinni from my garden, one of my modificat

If you grow just one zucchini plant, you will have more zucchini than you can consume. I love to use our zucchini in bread. I found a great cranberry zucchini bread recipe and modified it to include one of my favorite ingredients...chocolate. Click here to view my modifications of this recipe. #zucchini #bread #chocolatechips

Back in early July, I was getting really concerned about my zucchini plants. The plants were huge, but I had no zucchini. The pollinators were on vacation I suppose. I decided to hand pollinate my zucchini. For zucchini to grow, the beautiful yellow flowers that are produced have to be pollinated. There are two types of flowers, male and female. My female flowers were closing without being pollinated, shriveling up and falling off. I decided to intervene. When the flow

Although I did hand pollinate some of my zucchini (I'll blog about that process later), pollinators did eventually arrive in our garden to help out. I love to see nature at work! #zucchini #pollination #bees