Come along and garden with me with my monthly gardening feature where I take you into my garden and show you everything I'm doing month-by-month! Here's everything I'm doing in August.
After a long, cold, and rainy spring and summer, the garden is finally producing here in the Pacific Northwest. Though it seems most crops are about 3-4 weeks behind schedule, I'm pleased that we'll at least be getting some harvest this year!
In “normal” years, many of these tasks would be done in July, but because we're finally getting the warm temps some of my crops love, they're getting done now.
That wraps it up for my gardening tasks in August. I didn't cover all the preserving I've been starting, but one thing I will mention is my newest book called Everything Worth Preserving.
This is THE preserving book I always wished I could find but never could. It includes an A-Z list of every fruit and vegetable, all the safe methods of preservation, and recipes for preserving them.
You can pre-order your copy of Everything Worth Preserving right here and grab some bonuses as a thank you from me for pre-ordering my book.
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