Need to pull weeds out from mint and oregano because they are almost dead from cold and choking on weeds.
Italian parsley and garlic chives are hanging in there.
Sage is starting to look really good-it was kind of sorry looking in fall but coming around-I think it's on its 3rd year.
No signs of life in the asparagus bed....
Garlic and onions are still hanging on-those were planted last fall. I was never good at growing onions and these probably will be puny because I used bulbs instead of sets. They are ref onions, which are my favorite.
I am missing my oven! On Tuesday, the heating element crapped out after impersonating a combo of an arc welding light and a grease fire! My stove is usually really clean so I thought it was odd there was a fire in the oven.
From what I read, I'm lucky I caught it in time. It only got the front left corner of the heating element. I was prepping other dinner items, noticed the arcing and fire(?) and shut it off right away. Sometimes they go really quick and burn all the way around the element, wiping out ground and terminal too. Can start fires if not stopped in time or oven is filthy.
Got a new one ordered for 20.00. It should be here on Tuesday or Wednesday and then I'll hopefully have my oven back. I need to bake some bread like yesterday that store bread is nasty.
I had that happen once, and had to get a new oven. It took a while to save some money, find a decent price, and get the delivery set up - it was for the basement apartment, so had to be ordered by the store.
Anyway, I wanted some biscuits and a chocolate cake really bad. So I took the blue granite ware stockpot, put a lb of cheap salt in the bottom. Put 3 canning rings in bottom for trivit.
Put stuff in cake pan with another turned upside down. Top with the lid. This makes an oven on the stove top. Method is used in 3rd world countries. I have also used it on my rocket stove for testing for electrical outages.