God Bless you. I’m happy to hear you’ve got a break from winter :)
I’ve got some of my seedlings sprouted nicely which is a major praise report. Last week I was thinking I’d lost them all. They got hot and very dry a couple of weeks ago when I was not able to get up and look after them. For me, that is one of the blessings of my garden, it’s more forgiving than critters in a crisis. I’ve wanted some chickens and a couple of milk goats but those babies would need me to get up and care for them when it’s sometimes not possible. Hence, I love my plants even more :)
Got 3 tomatoes held over from last year that are covered in blooms and I don’t know why but Ive had two pepper plants (one a banana pepper and one bell pepper) that did not seem to take their winter rest. They’ve blessed me with enough so I’ve only purchased 3 bell peppers thru this whole winter. That included enough for ingredients in 10 quarts and 5 pints of canned chili and 14 qts and 20 pints of spaghetti sauce.
I know I’m speaking to people smart enough to know this but with the shortage of veggies we have to stock up on meat as well. Crop shortage problems will make the meat more scarce as well. Always surprises me when folks give me a “deer in the headlights” look when I bring that up in conversation.
Beautiful day here today. Supposed to be in the 80’s later and we have rain in the forecast. My rain barrels are just half full after watering yesterday so I will appreciate some rain.
I usually have a few tomato plants and peppers to help through the winter, but haven’t really had any tomatoes this year, and we didn’t have any pepper plants that turned out this year either.
I have been canning beef and chicken recently, but need to get a bunch more done. I like to do it in the winter when I need the heat. Then in the summer, I don’t have to heat up the house-just open the jar and eat it or slightly heat it.