We’ve had the run of below freezing days in Texas like everyone else has. It’s not too often when we have more than 3 days without a warming above freezing at some point but we had just that. My rain barrels have a 4” layer of ice on top.
I spent the past 4 days cooking and canning large batches of chili, spaghetti sauce and concentrated beef soup stock. Going to can pintos tomorrow even tho it is going to be warmer.
I’m still getting a lot of peppers from the plants in my sunroom and balcony. I had enough hot peppers for my chili to be plenty spicy and some sweet peppers for my spaghetti sauce. Getting about 1 tomato/week. The best gardening treasure this winter has been an amazing quantity of huge blooms on my rescued hibiscus. I got 2 plants that a nearby WalMart thought they’d killed last summer, nursed them back to health and they are rewarding me daily! I can’t figure out how to post pictures while freeping from my phone or I’d show them.
And, amazingly, its time for me to put down tomato and pepper seeds to be ready for spring! I really need to get busy with those!
You have been so busy. I have just been lazy as a dog. LOL