Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Saturday, March 18, 2006
The House Ate My Blog
I was going to title this post "Sprung, Part 2", but things didn't work out like I planned. Our house renovation project is on hiatus as of March 15, owing to the carpenter having a prior commitment for a job starting then. He'll be back here when he finishes that one, but until then I thought I'd have more time to garden and cook and blog and ...
What I've been doing instead is trying to put the kitchen back into a truly functional state, which means not having to search the basement for missing equipment and pantry ingredients every time I want to cook something. Oh, and I also decided that we won't have the floors refinished; that I'll just touch them up by myself instead. This is going to work out OK, but the key word there is work.
But in the garden, things are blooming - 85 degrees last Monday had some effect, although it's freezing cold and windy today. If tomorrow is a little less windy, I'll try to get some flower pictures posted.
Today I planted tomato and pepper seeds - only weirdo-type plants, no Big Boys or Early Girls. Tomato seeds are: Belii Naliv, Black Russian, Eva Purple Ball, and Striped Roman. I grew Striped Roman in a pot on the front steps last year, and was really impressed with the flavor. This year's other varieties are all new to me. Pepper seeds are: Bellingrath Gardens Purple, and Czechoslovakian Black. With any luck and free time, these will all go into my new ornamental/edible border on the south side of the house.
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