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I have two peppers growing on my indoor pepper plant with a third one forming. I can’t believe it.
I put borage and nasturtium seeds out a couple of weeks ago and they are coming up. My sage, thyme and lemon thyme retuned, Got tons of dill going from last year’s flowers. Already getting brown butter and sage sauces in the kitchen. The chive blossoms are coming. Looks like I am replacing the oregano. Going to get that, marjoram and tarragon seedlings at the farmer’s market shortly.
Running later this year then last, when we started most of the toms in 20oz cups iun mid March on a (”deceiving”) warm day, but this last month was rather warm for March, yet i started toms early April. Last year a “plague” wiped out much of the crop, though they were recovering until the cold nuked them, so this year I need to pray more and plant less, with more spacing (no masks though) and cut off any diseased part when I see it.
Greetings from southern New Hampshire, where Household Six is deep into planting in the basement. Lufa is the watchword, here.
She is converting a tall, laundry basket into a strawberry tower. I need to screen compost for it, this afternoon, along with raking our bog filter to get rid of last year’s residue. I need to repair the plumbing, feeding it, and get a new pump for it and hope that it comes clean. It could be a couple of hours or a couple of days!
Last week, I hung three bee swarm traps on our property. Today, I will start making the parts for a Layens horizontal hive as well as checking for visitors. I need to pick up a couple of bags of sheep wool for the insulation on that horizontal hive.
So glad that we decided to “retire” from seasonal RVing. We want to spend our time at home.
I was quite busy in the garden this week.
I continued building some of my raised beds. I got some onion seedlings planted and got some broccoli, cabbage, and brussel sprouts plants planted. Everything is somewhat under cover as I mulched it with straw.
My garlic is poking up and the onions I put in the ground last summer for seeds are also coming up.
The weather this week is not forecast to be quite so warm and sunny, but we could use some rain and I have plenty of indoor stuff to do yet.
The tomato seeds I started last week are coming up, too.
So far, everything seems to be under control.
We’ve gotten a good bit of rainfall over the past week here in Central Missouri. It comes at a good time - should make for some bumper crop morel harvests over the next few weeks.
It’s too muddy to do anything outside, and it’s raining again today, so I should have some time to tackle Mr. Clarence’s sticky lift cylinder.
Something has been wrecking Mrs. Augie’s bird feeders, so I set the live trap and baited it with sunflower seeds. Caught a nice fat raccoon Monday night, and moved him into a new stainless steel condo in my refrigerator. Bird feeders got wrecked again Tuesday night. Trap back out on Wednesday and caught the co-conspirator. Moved that one to the condo in the fridge. It seems there’s at least one more still around so the trap will go back out tonight. I’m going to wind up with a nice BBQ out of the deal.
Thinking about getting ready to plant the usual tomatoes, hot peppers, beets, herbs, flint/field corn. Usually plant the weekend after Mother’s Day. Going to grow romanesco this year and maybe some fennel. Last year was a cold spring and lost most of my quince crop - the flowers never turned into fruit. It’s cold again this spring so worried same thing will happen. Should have a bumper crop of plums though.
Make my own corn meal and hominy from the field/flint corn preserved by drying. Buy the pickling lime online to make hominy. Makes for good cornbread, polenta and posole. Trying to learn how to make cornnuts from hominy. First batch didn’t work out so need a good recipe.
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Windy but beautiful weather here on the shores of Humboldt Bay the past few days but Lady Bender did get 3 rows of Strawberries planted and her tomato, sweet peas and cukes are coming up in the greenhouse…
Woo hoo - spotted the first hummingbird on the feeder this morning at 7:42 am! Saw a hummer on the feeder an hour later (exactly - 8:42) - probably the same one. We must have had 8 to 10 hummers last year, so the “crowd” is yet to arrive, but seeing the first one is exciting! :-)