Hello! Fancy meeting you here (on my blog that I have a difficult time keeping up with)! Things are moving! Not fast, not slow, but they are moving right along. I am working on sock monkeys, but mostly homemaking things. This month I tried my hand at making yogurt in my crock pot and it turned out pretty nicely! I will share more on that later, but I am really glad I started on that. The yogurt is so delicious, more healthy, and cheaper to make than buying it from the store. I have also been making all of our bread, sourdough and regular white bread. I have been making bread for years, here and there. I have committed more time to this, however, after learning more about all the garbage they add to our cheap bread. Enough of that. We are doing better.
At the beginning of the month I started my tomato and bell pepper seeds. I still need to start some marigolds and other things, but I am so excited for my garden! When I am feeling down during one of our gloomy Wisconsin spring days, I look at my plants and think about my garden. Not so much about all of the weeds I’m going to pull and bug bites I will get, but pretty flowers and yummy veggies. 😀
I also tried something new this year: winter sowing. With winter sowing you start your seeds in a mini greenhouse, like a milk jug or other plastic container with a lid. You plant your seeds in some dirt, cover the container, and put the container (greenhouse) outside where it is a little sheltered, but gets some sun. As the days warm up and cool down the plants germinate and grow like they would outdoors. You do winter sowing with hardy or semi-hardy seeds. For my first year experiment I planted two containers of broccoli, two containers of radishes, and one container of snapdragons. We will see how that goes. I can’t wait!
We are wrapping up spring break at DD’s school. Earlier in the week we enjoyed two nights at a waterpark in Wisconsin Dells. We had a blast! DD is at a friend’s a house and will be coming home in a few hours, so I am off to get a few things done before then.
I hope you are having an excellent Friday and looking forward to a great weekend!
Missie S. 😀
