The Strawberry Tower garden needed sprucing up since they were starting to flower. I pulled off all the dead leaves and a few dead crowns that did not survive the winter. I think I lost half the plants,

It is full-on canning season at my house and this is one of my favorite ways to preserve pork loin for the pantry shelf. I had two pork loins in the freezer and used the "Spicy Pork" recipe from