Good Morning! Let’s grab a virtual cup and settle in. Still a bit too chilly for the patio, but I was outside this morning and it’s so nice to see the grass greening back up again. A neighbor has started up their mower, such a welcome sound of spring.
How’ve you been? Hopefully all is well as we navigate our current reality. I hope you and your family are safe and healthy. We are doing OK so far. There’s lots to do around the house so we are far from bored. And I have to say, I’m loving being full time remote! We need a good snowstorm and I’ll REALLY appreciate it! OK, maybe not.
I made a grocery run yesterday and luckily got the minced garlic I needed to continue pesto production. My plants are going crazy and I’ve been Googling basil recipes to keep up. I’m accumulating pesto cubes in the freezer, good thing I LOVE pesto! I’ve also been picking the flowers off and saving them, I read that you can brew tea from the leaves. ?? That’s an experiment for another day.
This weeks past experiment includes trying to grow cherry tomatoes from the last I had in the fridge that were starting to wrinkle. I can’t buy tomato plants, so I’m going to give this a go.
I think some sprouts are starting, but they may be weeds as I took the soil from my backyard. I have no bagged potting soil and it’s not on the essential list! 🙂 We’ll see what happens.
I will spend some time in my office today catching up on a few work things and it looks like it will be another sunny day! Will have to get outside at least for a bit. I’d like to also spend some time with my current read, Ghost Rider. What are you reading right now?
Need a warm up? Come visit our coffee share host, Eclectic Alli, and tell us what’s been going on! Stay healthy, my friends!
Hope the tomatoes grow well. This has me wanting to grow a lot of my own food. Working on that…
I’m reading Postscript by Cecelia Ahern. It’s the sequel to P.S., I Love You. It’s pretty good so far. Finally getting a wee bit of routine in these days at home, now that I’ve learned all I can and gotten used to the idea. 🙂
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Same here, I can’t wait to plant my peppers! This has been a lesson in prepping and homesteading..
Glad to hear you’re doing well Kathleen. You’ll get a lot of cherry tomatoes from what you’re planting. I just started reading Angela’s Ashes, a memoir by Frank McCourt, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Have a nice weekend! #weekendcoffeeshare
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Great to hear! I hope this works! I sliced 9 cherry tomatoes in half, so 18 plants if they all succeed. I read Angela’s Ashes years ago.. Thanks for stopping by!
I am intrigued with the cherry tomato experiment. I wonder if it would work with bigger tomatoes?
I saw an article about starting plants from tomato slices, that’s how I got this idea. 😁 I had cardboard egg cartons, so I thought I’d try.
Leener, last year before we left Florida for Michigan I took a bunch of green tomatoes off my plants as I tore them out of the ground. When we got back to Florida in the fall as I started watering the green tomatoes started sprouting. So if you have more red and wilted tomatoes just stick them in the ground… Petunia…xoxo
Thanks! I was going to scoop the seeds out and plant those, but instead just sliced them in half..
Wow, on the tomato plant approach….hope it works. I just feel I’ve completely missed the window now.
Thanks, me too! Is it too late to plant where you live? Or start from seed?
I hope those tomatoes germinate! I would love to know whether they do.
Currently I am reading The Nanny by Gilly MacMillan. Very good so far.
I do too! That would really be need to raise tomatoes from prior tomatoes.. 🙂
Oh, I really hope your tomatoes will grow fabulously! I think I might grow my own on the balcony next year. Glad the weather is good.
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I’m excited and hopeful!
You have some fun projects going on. I think it is crazy that soil isn’t essential! And seeds? WTF!? What could be more essential than growing your own food. Crazy! I bought a survival garden kit last year that I opened now. It was vacuum sealed and supposed ot be good for 30 years. So far the germination rate has been 100%, I’ve never had that before. It is too cold to plant my seedlings outside, but I have many when the time comes. When this is over I’ll definitely buy another of this seed kits to save for a real emergency. I believe it was somewhere between $30-$40, and so many many seed varieties, all heirloom non-GMO. There was a package included how and when to sow each vegetable, and how to save new seeds! I’m stoked with the result so far. We’ll see how the harvest turns out. Thank you for the coffee and the chat.
My thoughts exactly! Furniture, paint, maybe. SEEDS??? When going to to grocery store is a risk?? Grrrrr.. Is the survival garden kit what we saw in your windowsill?
Homemade pesto—is there anything better? I love the tomato idea—I’ll have to try it if ours haven’t reseeded themselves in the garden! Hope you had a happy Easter 😊
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Happy Easter and thank you for stopping by! My friend Leslie mentioned them reseeding – I never thought to try that and I figured they were annuals. I’m loving the pesto – I need more recipes! LOL How I wish I could give these plants away – when they get too tall I snip them and put them in water. They are rooting very well!
I ordered seeds and plants online. I knew the plants wouldn’t come for a while, but I thought I would have the seeds by now. I also did a curbside pickup at Ace for garden soil, top soil, grass seed, and weed and feed.
Miss you! I’m glad your dad is doing better. I’ll keep the prayers coming.
Thank you so much! I can’t wait to meet up again. I bet your garden will be as beautiful as ever.. 🙂