Okay, I don't know why Tears For Fears songs are present in my brain band frequently, but they really are easy to do a bit of wordsmithing with! Anyway, I have somehow lost a week of my life, I can't believe it is Friday! Actually, I can, but my belief is probably just suspended because it's also the first day since Monday that I haven't had a fever. Much elation going on around here right now!
I mean, I even got to take the trash out today! I know that is a weird thing to be excited about, but when you are really sick, just a bit of chore normalcy is good restorative soul balm.
Today, aside from dissecting the entire human brain in 3D, I also gave the onion seedlings their second haircut. They are growing like weeds! Yes, that is a probably overused saying but to be fair my brain has been thoroughly cooked and most totally over broiled. I feel like I should maybe be okay with a pass this week.
Back to the onions, they are coming along nicely, so much so that it smelled like sour cream and onion chips when I snipped them back. We have had some glorious, warm sun the past couple of days and the onions, in their rolling plastic card starting house home, really have enjoyed those growth inducing rays.
Another fine development is the pepper seeds are finally starting to sprout. They tend to take forever, but when I checked them this afternoon I was excited by their progress. The Anaheim's cotyledons are almost ready to do their opening thing, which means I need to get off of my flintlocks and plunk those little sprouts into some soil. I will most likely get to it tomorrow, as I am not behind on my flower starting and need to tend to that as well. I detest the catch up flurry that happens on the other side of major illness. It's putrid.
But, I will gladly play catchup and be thankful that's the state I am in. The hubs and I also need to repair the hoophouse. We didn't get the supports in before the snow came so we have more of a sploosh house right now, the cattle panels be sagging a bit. The supports are in the hoophouse on the ground though, so the hubs and I will go out with some two by fours, do a bit of coordinated lifting, and square that space away. Which needs to happen stat because I want to get some radishes and spinach in. It's early spring, I want all the greens and cold weather things!
But for now, now it is time for me to head back into a bit of restorative repose. Just the little bit that I have done today has wiped me right out. I'm so looking forward to being back in full Kat action, convalescing is not the kitten's mittens for sure.
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Tears for fears songs are absolute classics that I grew up with and they are ever present in my head. Real Genius ending was a big one for me.
I've yet to start seeds.... You are WAY ahead of me on that. I'm going to till the greenhouse again tomorrow and then get seeds in since it is well warm enough with the miner heater.
Good you're on the backside of the suds, they are never fun and this year seems to be a rather potent form of them. The boys are still getting over the cough going since November.
Aww, Val Kilmer movies are the best! I loved Real Genuis and Top Secret, and was an absolute sucker for Willow when I was a kid lol!
I'm only starting the onions, peppers, and some flowers this early, most of my other seed starting will be at the end of this month and again in late April or so. Plus, you start WAY more than I do, I hope you are enjoying this calm before the storm lol!
Oh man, your poor boys, they are like my hubs, he's still coughing from getting it at Christmas! I hope this awesome weather cooks it right out of them all:)
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HAH! Most people have no idea about Top Secret, his first film. I've always loved both and watched Willow more times than I can count.
Thankfully the boys are mostly over the cough but the little lingering bits still suck.
I'm already looking at the next varieties of garlic I'll be getting, I'm going to need a lot more if I want to quadruple this year's planting of 1000.
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What varieties are you looking at? I need to figure that out too, seed garlic buying time will be here before I know it!
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So far my list includes Music, Montana Giant, Nootka Rose, Western Rose, Bavarian Purple, and Mt Hood. This would give me 19 varieties grown.
I’m super interested in trying Nootka Rose and Bavarian Purple! I never even have heard of of Montana Giant so off I go on a learning tour lol!
19 varieties is amazing btw!
https://www.snowvalleygarlic.com/ has the Montana Giant where I will be most likely getting them from. Also will order from Territorial Seed, they have the Rose varieties.
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This reminds me of a time that we collaborated on another song, it could get even more silly I'm afraid...
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So glad you are out the other side of this bout! Cool about the seedlings and sprouts!
I know the sagging cattle panel thing, as I've been looking at the pasture coop for years. I was thinking of tearing it apart for the panels and using the panels in the garden. We'll see...
Ooh, your cattle panel project sounds like a job, but I bet you'll get it done and then have another job to do lol lol!
And yep, I just might live, again! 😆
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I need to plant something this year too :)
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I hope you do! And post about it, I would love to see your plantings!!
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I am really bad in planting anything. All plants I had before didn't go long...But I dont keep trying lol
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This is new, I've never heard of it. My dad (and me when I'm helping) always sow the seedlings into the ground and never give them a haircut. Isn't that damaging to the seedlings?
Oh, I so wish I could sow the seedlings right into the ground and not give them haircuts, but alas, I live in the most brutal of growing zones, so I have to do things differently. When you start seedlings indoors they are prone to damping off and dying, cutting back the tops of onions helps them put energy into strong root development and doesn't hurt them at all, I've grown them this way lots of times, as long as you don't cut them back too far or aggressively. I don't do it to any other seedlings but the onions.
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