It’s January! I love January, love putting up the new calendar, love the new month that is only a few scant months away from SPRING! Okay, okay, I know that there are two months of winter left, and snow and zero degrees to come, and frozen pipes to boot, Wait, I left those frozen pipes back at the old farmhouse. I have spoken.
This is the time of year when I want to do something, anything, to make spring come quicker.
Planting seeds is a quick fix, even if they come in a Chia kit. Hey, it’s a Chia herb kit!!
It’s actually kinda weird. It has this spongey thing that is like, but not like, potting soil. Anyway! We don’t care. We just need to plant something!
The kit came with four little pots and six packets of seeds. The instructions said to pick the four you wanted to plant and save the other seed packets. Uh, I don’t think so! I rustled up two more little pots and planted them all–marjoram, chives, dill, basil, parsley, and cilantro.
Then I put sandwich baggies over the top to simulate a greenhouse while the seeds germinate.
Spring will be here any minute. I’m feelin’ it!!!!
P.S. Happy New Year! (Eat your corned beef and cabbage!!)
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on January 1, 2009
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Smiles, Barbara
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Spring is just around the corner…My favorite part about living in Texas? I can easily handle these winters… :cool:
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I grew up in the south and it’s coins and currency for New Year’s day. For those of you who don’t know this dish it’s black eyed peas and greens.
Happy New Year to ya’ll and may Spring come sooner than later.
Phyllis in cold ON
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true…
Every year I attempt to talk my husband in moving
the raised bed boxes to the sunnier sections of our
property…under a canopy of oaks that is difficult
to find! Then I have to talk him into planting
vegetables and herbs, but finding a way to keep
the little squirrels out is not easy!
Love those seed catalogs also…
I will do it again this year – because i love to plant
but i sure would like to harvest also!
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By the way – pork & saurkraut here for luck.
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hmmm – what you do today you will do all yr long – I am going to play music, do crafts, watch old movies, eat candy and and and and
HAPPY NEW YEAR – yes beeyourself the winter’s here are much milder than in WV for sure but I remember in the 80s when it was 18 here for 2 weeks – yes 2 weeks and we had an ice storm and was covered in ice forever, sheets of ice came down like rain. I was raised in Texas and we use to have much colder and harsher winters. Up north near Wichita Falla, North West Texas – it is much colder – more snow too. global warming coming south. I hate it. we need 4 seasons as God intended.
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At my house this is gone the first day
1 15 oz can black-eyed peas, drained
2 large tomatoes, chopped or 1 16 oz can plum tomatoes drained and chopped.
1 4 oz can chopped green chilies
2 green onions, chopped
2 canned jalapeno peppers seeded and chopped (I leave out)
3 tbs olive oil
1 tbs white wine vinegar ( I use plain ole vinegar)
1 clove of garlic minced (I use the can version)
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
Combine all, stir well. cover and chill 8 hrs. serve with chips or crackers.
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Let me get this straight – for good luck in 2009 I’ll need to fix corned beef and cabbage, pork and saurkraut, black-eyed peas and collard greens, and maybe cornbread thrown in for good measure. Have I got all the bases covered? We are going to be S-O-O-O full today – and we’ll be eating the leftovers until 2010 the way I cook.
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I can feel it too!
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Suzanne – Nutmeg looks like she’s, uh, filling out – too many Christmas cookies? Poor little cold tootsies.
Happy New Year to all of the farmhouse gang and my fellow readers! :catmeow:
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Black-eyed peas (with lots of bacon) or corned beef with cabbage?
I’m a black-eyed pea girl.
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I want to plant things NOW. But, since we are wise to her ways, I think I will get the pots out and start the babies just like you. Happy New Year. And, as one of our Master Gardeners says, “May all your weeds become wildflowers.”
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Cilantro? I would toss that out FIRST thing. I DESPISE Cilantro. Those little herb pots are cute. :mrgreen:
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Happy New Year.
Suzanne, the Farmer’s Wife
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Happy New Year to everyone
Linda
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Being Italian we never had the corned beef and cabbage but I just got a new crockpot and I’m making a soup/stew that has cabbage in it so I hope that counts lol.
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Your post has me wanting to get to the store and buy some seeds/dirt/pots. I can’t think of a better way to work thru this cold and dreary winter. Spring here we come!!!
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Happy New Year Suzanne and thanks for sharing your delicious life with all of us.
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