Well,so much for that last group of pictures I’ll try to get them thru Momma’omputer later. In the meantime, we have new growth to show you.
Enough of that. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of watching herbs grow. The weather is changing slowly, getting ready for spring. Maybe I can get out side for some projects, or open the garage and work down there.
Well, I did load a photo of clippings from the Aero-Garden. Really. But my computer ate it. I will try again after dialysis.
So I did everything backwards today. First I made tomato soup utilizing my hame canned tomatoes and homegrown basil.
Zapped it with a stick blender & added sour cream. Then made some toasted cheese sandwiches.
Then, all filled up and warm, went out and played in 6 inches of fresh Michigan snow to clear the driveways so our transports(Cindy to take Momma to the orthopedic doctor and Your Ride to get me to Dr Hukill)
I had to harvest some herbs from the Aero-Garden because they were gaining on the lamp raising and some were falling over.
Now I have to find someone to take the cilantro away, it smells strongly of soap.
I had to raise the light hood on the Aero-Grow right after plowing 2 inches of snow off the driveways.
I didn’t put a picture of the snow in because I’ve seen enough snow. How about you?
Busy day, Plowed snow on both drive ways and the parking area. got ready for hospital visit, and raised the grow light hood on the Aero-Grow 1 inch.
Coming along!
It really works. Eight days and we have GROWTH!!
Yeah, two items this week. First
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6-8 inches of snow during New Years Eve and Day.Now that’s my idea of a Winter Wonderland!
And inside the dome, we have Sprouts! At least Momma says she can see them. My vision is still not that great.
Well, so much for posting on time. I did finish setting up the Aero Garden on Sunday.
Adding puchased pure drinking water. It turns out you can’t use well water or softened water, too much unknown minerals in them.
Plugging in the seed pods and installing dome covers.
All set. Lights (CFL) and water pump are working, and the timer is set to turn every thing off at 11PM. I also added the first organic based fertilizer tablets are in.
Watch this space. We should be harvesting in 28 days, or is that cramps and headaches?
Mary gave me an Aerogarden for Christmas. Step #1, assemble the parts.
I had a slight dizzy spell, so I took a siesta. Step #2 comes tomorrow.
Sure thing. You betcha. Uh huh.
Couldn’t leave well enough alone, could we? Just had to try that new food mill, didn’t we? So Momma decided we should do the two recipes I had printed out,meaning to make NEXT year. We now have 8 4oz jars of Cranberry-Maple Chutney and 16 jars of .Marinara sauce ‘COURSE WE ONLY HAD TO BUY THE TOMATOES,CRANBERRIES,CARROTS, CELERY, MAPLE SYRUP , ONIONS AND 1 LAST CASE OF JARS.
so we went to Bed, Bath, and beyond with a pocket full of discount coupons that never expire and got more than we wanted. The best item was a food mill. I threw away my old one after the tinning corroded and pitted the bowl and plate. This is stainless steel and has 3 different grate sizes.
We decided we needed a new one by OXO after finding about 10 per cent of the recipes I look up need this tool to mash , crush, or strain something.. Here are some pics of what we canned this year. Only about 10 jars were from last year.You can see how many where we had to crush by hand or use the Sqeezo. Sure am glad I bought it 35 years ago when it was $42.00 !!
And the great experiment will continue with the planter barrels next year. They were a little neglected because all the dialysis access surgeries have kept me too tired to do much but sit here and read others blogs. I’ll start by commenting now.
I feel better but still run out of energy quickly. One more surgery to go that will tie off all the old fistulas and grafts tht failed. I am told the will reduce the load on my heart. Fingers crossed!!
Pickles? I’m a jam maker. Somehow I got pickles on my mind. So I bought more jars, sugar, and dug the celery seed, mustard seed and turmeric out of storage. Ran all over finding pickles, dill and jars. Then Phyllis brings over more tomatoes,green beans and grapes. Will it never end?
The last time I tried pickling anything all I got was limp and bad tasting. So far these are tasting pretty good. We’ll see after they age a bit.
Momma made some more tomato chutney and started prepping the grapes. Maybe then we can call this episode closed, it’s starting to become a lot of work!
Today we finished making tomato jam. Six jars and we still had more Romas left. So tomorrows is tomato sandwiches. Momma tried to get me to go with her to buy more pectin, but we decided enough was enough
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Here’s the last batch in the canner kettle"volcano".
Now we rest until grape time in mid September They know us so well at McDanials Farm Stand they will call us when the grapes arrive.
