First off Happy Blogaversary to us!! Our first post on Stoney Acres was one year ago today!! This week we are joining The Gardener of Eden for Thursdays Kitchen Cupboard. Be sure to head over to Robyn’s site to see how others around the world are using all their great home grown produce!! Like many [...]
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Growing and preserving Onions – Part One
August 29th, 2012 
Rick Fall is harvest time for a lot of the long season crops; it wouldn’t feel like fall around Stoney acres if you weren’t tripping over the makeshift table we use to cure our onions in the garage. I’ve grown onions most years in my garden. Until recently I grew my onions from sets and had [...]
Monday Harvest Report 8-27-12
August 27th, 2012 Rick Hi guys, this week we will be joining two blog hops with our harvest report. The first is the Monday harvest report with Daphne’s Dandelions and the second is the Tuesday Garden Party at an Oregon Cottage. The heat wave continues!! We had another week of 95 + every day with at least another [...]
Tags: A busy week around the garden
August 26th, 2012 Rick Sorry I haven’t been posting much this week. We have been super busy around Stoney Acres and I just haven’t had them time!! So our warm weather crops have finally started to hit their peak and the produce is pouring out of the garden! Here’s a look at what we did will the over 50 [...]
Picking the perfect Melon
August 25th, 2012 Rick August is our favorite month in the garden. Why? Because here in Utah that means it’s time for the melons to be ready!! Since we started growing our own melons several years ago we have decided there is nothing better than home grown vine ripened melons. We wait all year for this 4 week [...]
