Seeds started indoors:
Experiment – I had some garlic that had sprouted, so I separated the sprouted cloves and planted each in a pot of dirt. It has been raining for the last 2 days or I would have planted them outside.
I also have some sprouted potatoes to plant when I decide where.
Made a garden pathway.
Winter sown seeds:
I had these morning glories seeds from last years plants. They are mixed with the volunteer morning glories that came up by the side of the porch. I would like to get a good amount growing there this year.
More work in the garden today –
Worked on the strawberry bed and expanded it, moving some plants around – hope I didn’t kill them!
Moved over the compost pile so that a new bed was created that I will plant peas and lettuce in. Put up the lattice for the peas.
I left a pile of compost-in-the-works for permanent for this summer.
Raked leaves out from under the shrubs and added to compost pile.
I now have 2 beds ready for planting, and the strawberry bed.
Still have to work on the large bed in the back part of the yard.
Jack wants to go out
Today was sunny and warm (55 degrees high). Jack kept wanting to spend time outside. I went out for a little bit with him a couple times this morning, but I told him “I have work to do” and made us come back inside. He doesn’t do “alone”, he has to have someone with him at all times.
Then I did a little bit of work.
Then I noticed the weather report and that it would be raining the next couple of days, so…I gave in. We went back outside and I worked on one area of the garden. We now have one small bed ready for planting. And one walkway area mulched.
I think this bed will be for lettuce and peas. Let me check my garden plan I made last month – I am close, I have this bed marked for lettuce, carrots, beets, radishes, onions. I think the idea was to pick a few, not plant all of those. I think just lettuce and peas will do, the lettuce kind of takes over and I actually made the bed smaller than I had planned in order to make the walkway which is an addition to the driveway because if we have a vehicle parked there, there is nowhere to walk.
The strawberry bed still has some snow and is quite wet, so I didn’t work on that area, though I would have liked to. Its going to be even wetter if we get rain for 2 days!
This was in pending posts from 4-28-2009
Look what I found in my garden this morning!
I have pretty much abandoned this Word Press site for this one because I needed to learn Joomla. I have moved all the posts from this site to the new one, just haven’t moved the pictures of my grandchildren over yet, …too much work…
Whenever I mention to people that I am making bread, they say “oh! you have a bread machine!”
NO I do NOT have a bread machine. You do not need a bread machine to make bread for pete sakes! You just mix the dough and then you knead it for about 10 minutes. It is an enjoyable thing to do, although it can be a little hard on the hands, especially if you have arthritis in them like I do. But for now, it isn’t bothering me and I am teaching Caitlin how to do it too.
I learned how to knead dough way back in the 70’s when I first learned how to bake bread. I didn’t bake bread for a good number of years, but now that I work from home I have time and the inclination to bake bread again, among other things I have started doing from scratch again. It isn’t difficult to knead, but here is a good video that explains why kneading is important, and how to do it:
4 cups hot water mixed with
2 teaspoons borax
1 teaspoon washing soda
4 tablespoons vinegar
1 teaspoon Murphy’s Oil Soap
The water has to be hot in order to dissolve the borax and washing soda
I used this recipe on our walls, with a little Murphy’s Oil Soap added, and it did an excellent job of cleaning off the yellow smoke gunk. Wipe it on and let it set a minute or two, then I used some rinse water (although if you don’t smoke, you don’t really need to rinse) for best results!
1 gallon water, mixed with
1 cup ammonia
1/2 cup vinegar
1/4 cup baking soda
