Garden Gate at Prairie Road

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...

My FAVORITE tree is a crabapple tree—a Chestnut crab. It's right in my front yard by the sidewalk.  Developed by the University of Minnesota it was released in 1946. It's an...

The cold wet weather of spring actually helps germination of cool season crops. Many early crops can become bitter in summer heat. With a couple weeks to go before our...