Showing posts with label pesto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pesto. Show all posts

Monday, May 07, 2007

All those weeks...


You may have noticed that I've been absent for a week, and that's for a reason. Last week was the week from hell. I've started a new job, a nice one so that's not the problem. The problem was that my son fell ill and kept me awake during the nights. I had forgotten how sluggish you become by not sleeping at night. Things was so bad I even forgot to water my seedlings and they bent like overcooked spagetti over their boxes. I watered them anyway, and most of them recovered.

Other plants have flourished while I turned my back. The basil for exemple. It's so big that when I log it next time I'll have twice the amount I had last, ie two (2) litres (or four pints). I'm going to dig it out of the box and replace it with chives and parsly, mark my words! I have pesto enough for a year.

I've found a nice recipe for the sage that will keep it in check in the future. It's called "Icelandic chicken" (if anyone of my readers are interested in the middle ages you may recognize Cariadoc's miscellany).

My two biggest challenges for now is to replant my seedlings - I have a replant phobia, and to get a vermicompost. The last thing is a bit like getting a cat; you need to care for it, feed it and take care of the poop. Good thing it doesn't have fur; my hubby is allergic.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Plans and pesto


Yesterday I logged the basil and made a litre (a quart) of pesto. Today I have a headache, since I'm sensitive to garlic in those amounts you eat when you try ti finish of large amounts of pesto. Heh, I knew what I did and I have to admit that it was worth it. Pesto is freezable fortunately, and our friends on the potluck today all agreed that if you have to priorotize between nuts and garlic you choose garlic.

Today I've planned next round of sowing. Ie. I've spread my seed bags over the table top and written down the names of the plants to sow on the backside of an envelope. I concluded that I need to document more of my efforts. This week I've had my first bigger harvests, but I'm not sure when I sowed them. If I'm not sure on how long the interval is between sowing and harvesting I can't accurately calculate sowing cycles and how to overlap the 'generations' of the different sowing boxes. Next sowing round will in other words be properly documented - och the backside of an envelope, since old envelopes are an infinite source of paper (as well as documentation is an infinite source of notes).

And I wrote a small wish list to myself on what to buy from Impecta next time.

  • Strawberry sticks
  • Sugar plant
  • Okra
  • Sorrel


I'll see if I'll be kind to myself next time I get money...