Hi Bob - thanks for your note. yeah, I do a lot of research. You should have seen me the first time I put up wallpaper - having read all the...
Hi Jo-Ann - thanks for all thinking. I work through things much the same way. I had actually planned to use nylon screening (not very...
Ok - I follow the logic about drying times, and I understand the effect of cutting the raw tomato in smaller pieces before you start drying,...
Thanks for the note Jo-Ann. I'm just starting my research. It makes sense that constancy of heat would be important - I'm hoping to achieve that...
Bob -thanks for the link. Seems to be all sorts of good stuff. I have a restriction on how to dry stuff since our home is off-grid, hence my...
Many thanks, Bazette3. That is a great source of information - now to try to pick the right one(s) <sigh>. Reading an earlier post reminds me...
Hi and thanks for the links. I'm going to talk to one that is (somewhat) local to me. Eagerly anticipating some really neat tomatoes this summer...
Many thanks to the encouragement from all three of you. Apparently we're in Hardiness Zone 4B - now I just have to find out what that means....
Thanks Margaret for your suggestions - U of Guelph was on my list of places to contact but I hadn't thought about the two heritage villages.
Hi Ron - yeah, I think that's probably correct but I'm not sure they know exactly what trees were there before. Our farm was only about 80 miles...
Hi - thanks very much for the link. I've sent them an email but, on reading their site further, realize that I have no idea what they mean by...
Once again, many thanks. I assume the name you're thinking of is not either "companion planting" or "permaculture". (I know the terms, just...
Again, many thanks. Not sure there are a lot of master gardeners around here - think of me as living outside Brackendale, or Hope, or someplace...
K Baron - many thanks for the information and the welcome. Dumb question - does the zone matter on all plants? Local farmer says he buys corn...
Hi. I have a friend who is the naturalist at the Simcoe County museum. On the property there is the remains of an old orchard which he would...