At Home My Way

I wait all year for my July garden and it’s finally here!  July’s garden is a pretty magical place for me.  It’s where I feel peace and promise, where I know perseverance and hope.  It’s also where I can make mistakes but still end up in a good place! It’s where I remember the young girl I once was who hated sweating, who hated being outside in the yard but who can now turn a seed into a five foot squash!  Gardening isn’t hard.  It’s about trial and error, learning new things, and carefully tending to plants as if they were tiny babies.  With a little self discipline and hard work, most any garden can become a July garden AT HOME MY WAY.     Happy July Garden   by Gina Kenney (2026) Anticipating the weekend on Saturday’s Eve For a few days in the garden when I won’t have to leave   Four pints and four quarts of the mighty green bean Wrangling and untangling the cucumber vines green   Acros...

FIRST:  Three recipes -  Cooking Like a Granny! #1 Fresh Peach Pie  (home frozen peaches) Two fresh pie crusts-unbaked Filling : 1 gallon baggie (6 cups) of frozen fresh peaches/juice drained a little, thawed completely 2/3 cup of sugar  4 heaping Tablespoons of flour  1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon  2 Tablespoons butter sliced into small pats Instructions: Roll one crust and gently place in the pie pan making sure the edges extend over the sides of the pan a little bit.   Mix up the filling and  pour into the crust.   Roll remaining crust (top) and cut into lattice strips about one inch wide or so.   Add strips across the pie.   Fold back the top half every other strip and add a cross strip starting in the middle with the longest strip.  Unfold those strips over and fold back the  remaining "every other" strips.  Add another cross strip. Try to pick the wider/shorter strips to match the width across the...

I planted garlic for the first time this past fall in my mid Missouri, zone 6B garden.  I planted in October and harvested mid/end of June, just in time to get my bush beans planted! Making garlic powder was super easy! It smells and tastes sooo good!  We love some garlic at our house and for sure will be planting twice as many bulbs this fall.  Turning garlic into garlic powder was pretty effortless although I did have to purchase a dehydrator and coffee (spice) grinder.   This is how I grew garlic and turned garlic bulbs into garlic powder AT HOME MY WAY. Garlic Bulbs to Garlic Powder Supplies needed: Garlic bulbs (I used about 20 large bulbs and got about one pint of garlic powder.) Food processor Dehydrator (I got a good deal on mine from a "return/ overstock" store.) Coffee (spice) grinder ( This is the one I bought .)  (I like that the cup is removable.) A few glass canning jars Optional:  Jar Vacuum sealer  (I got THIS ONE from Amazon.)...