My Chicago Garden

Looks like a single sun flower survived the weather and grew to maturity.

Also the new canner arrived today. Oh wow…now I know why it's built by a steel foundry. It's built like a tank. 

I couldn't wait for our pressure canner to arrive so I went and purchased about 5 pounds of cucumbers to make into bread and butter pickles. After canning they are suppose to sit for 7 weeks before eating. Argh!!  I actually wanted to figure out how much 5 pounds (about 12 medium size) would [...]

For the last week my wife and I have been watching a particularly large spider (in our mind) build his web and eat his catch right before our eyes. About a week ago my wife noticed that a spider was building a web below the light above the sliding glass door to our deck/backyard.  [...]

Oooh man! My garden got trashed last night during a storm. Well part of it anyway.

I lost my big beautiful bell pepper plant that I had not even had a harvest from, my mostly harvested bush beans, the onion crop is in jeopardy, one of the pole been plants was hit and the [...]