Garden Gate at Prairie Road

Let me show you how we harvest and then store potatoes all winter long. So we're never without! I grew up on potatoes. Potatoes have always been a mainstay in...

It's time! If you have Uncle David's Dakota Dessert squash-- now's the time to harvest!  We planted our squash in two locations on May 23 and May 31 this year....

Sweet Dakota Rose Watermelon Patch Our first ripe watermelon!Nothing is more disappointing then picking your beautiful melon too early-- before its prime. Meaning you watermelon won't have peak ripe color...

This is how the original homesteaders preserved their cabbage harvest— homemade sauerkraut! The only ingredients needed are salt and cabbage! Harvest your cabbage and discard the outer leaves to remove...

The squash vine borer-- scientific name (Melittia cucurbitae). AKA-- well... can't say that in polite company! Here's a pic! Adult squash vine borer-- Figure credit: Brian Caldwell, Cornell University .The...

Your garden was looking so promising! THEN... you had to be gone—that family wedding, a couple weeks at the lake, whatever it was. Bottom line—the weeds exploded while you had...