It would be a great day to get some gardening chores done, check on all the covered plants etc. However, we have a daughter who is preparting to move out of state, and trying to wrap up finishing her wood floors, along with sorting and packing up stuff in boxes to move.
Our grand daughter's used trailer has been delivered to replace the one that burned, and needs painting etc prior to their moving in. She is expecting a baby boy in January, has 2 daughters, and is feeling a bit overwhelmed. So family duty calls. I wanted to get the thread posted before I left, so that it wouldn't be late posting.
I'll be back later, to turn 10lbs of ground beef into chili bricks, and catch up with all that I have missed this week and today.
Hope all is well with you. Have a great weekend, and God Bless.
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What garden, eheheh. Actually some arugula I keep covered and a parsley plant are the lone survivors at this point. Raked up a whole bunch of leaves and mowed it all down finely into mulch. have a few seeds started as an experiment in the east window. Got the 2 compost pails full and pruned back the crepe myrtle trees. Always something to do.. Merry Christmas all.
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Mark for later.
Take your time and get GD going. Later you could explain what a chili bricks is? :)
A word of warning: Don't order seeds through Amazon, unless it's from a company you know and trust!
I needed $5 more in order to get the free shipping, so I decided to browse their seed selection. Lots of cool-looking stuff! I ordered some black strawberry seeds, and some kiwi seeds. The strawberry seeds got here fine. The kiwi was seized by Customs. I got a very creepy letter letting me know that I was getting off with a warning because they were pretty sure I didn't know what was happening, but that they were going to be alert in case I tried it again. It seems the company I ordered from is in Taiwan, and they didn't have the documentation or quarantine procedures for importing plant materials into the US. I did manage to get a refund from the company, but I'm officially on a watch list now. (As opposed to before, when I was just thought I might be on a list.) That is the last time I ever order seeds from Amazon. There was nothing, absolutely nothing, hinting that the seller was not in the US.
After all that, I realized I had forgotten another source of seeds that I'd used before: GRIN the government seed bank! Possibly the only thing the government has ever done right, and I'm quite sure that's because most politicians don't know it exists. I browsed through and made a list of potential kiwi seeds to order, then added juneberries, seaberries, and other assorted fun stuff to the list. I'll wait until after I do an inventory before I order, just in case there's stuff I missed.
Heck, if I'm on a list already, I might as well get some seeds out of it!
That has been my adventure this week.
We had freezing rain yesterday and overnight here in CoMO. I need to go out and dig some horseradish root for my Christmas roast before it turns cold and freezes the soil.
We have had warmer than normal temperatures so the pansies are blooming like no tomorrow. Merry Christmas!