Winter Sowing & Some Canning

 

Hello, friends.  On a lovely day last week, I wintersowed many flower seeds.  Some include bachelor buttons, hollyhocks, sunflowers, borage, zinnias and marigolds.  J planted onions, and worked up the soil, so I can plant peas this week.  Laundry was all dried on the line.  A number of stained items were treated with a stain remover soak.  It did a very good job on some, and some are being soaked again, to hopefully fully remove the stain.  A batch of suet was made for the birds.  The usual composting, saving warm up water, shredding paper and cardboard, collecting rainwater, and using homemade soap happened.  Homemade pizza crust and pizza sauce were pulled from the freezer, some veggies chopped, and a quick meal was enjoyed.  We enjoyed a lovely evening with several neighbors.   I brought veggies and hummus, made using home canned chickpeas and our garlic.  The leftover celery and carrots were chopped for a vegetable bean soup the next day, with our onions & garlic, home canned tomatoes, squash and cabbage.  Beans were canned.  First, was a mix of black-eyed and Iron & Clay peas.  Then I canned a batch of black beans.  One jar of peas didn't seal, and was added to our vegetable soup.  My sister has been wanting to learn to can.  Last year, she came to learn how to can tomatoes.  This coming week, she'll be learning to can dry beans.  I'm looking forward to her visit.  Wishing you a lovely week!