Today is for the Irish!

There was nothing Greek on my menu today except for a container of Greek yogurt!  I don't have any Irish heritage, but I love to celebrate St. Patrick's Day so there was corned beef and all the boiled vegetables on the side - potatoes, cabbage, carrots, and onion.  It was so good!  Then my husband made a pineapple upside down cake for me with the cake batter colored green!  It was an early birthday celebration.  I hope everyone had a wonderful day!
I didn't bake anything for St. Patrick's Day this year, but my standard thing to make is green cupcakes.  I put green food coloring in the cake batter, use white icing, and add a few green sprinkles.  It just doesn't seem like St. Patrick's Day without those cupcakes, but a body can only handle so many calories!

It has been time to work in the garden.  My plants are growing really well with all this warm, sunny weather. I already started taking some out of their winter sowing jugs and replanting them in the ground.  My tomato seeds seemed to take a long time to sprout, but about half of them have sprouted now.  I just wish I knew how to get rid of the vole that keeps eating my plant roots.  It sure was nice to have an outdoor cat when we had one!

Plant Tales

Winter Sowing

I have been busy winter sowing and I am having great success.  My only issue now is that I am almost out of milk jugs.  If you don't winter sow, you will not make the connection between the two.  I'll take a few pictures and post them soon and then you can see my set up.  I have over 90 jugs planted so far and want to get above 100 so I guess we'd better drink lots of milk in the weeks ahead!  It further complicates things that the milk jugs must allow sunlight to reach the seeds and many jugs now  are white instead of clear.  Next on the confusion list is which grocery store to shop at that has clear milk jugs...

Plant Tales

You may think my plant tale is about winter sowing, but "Plant Tales" is a new column I am writing for the Lexington County Master Gardener's Volunteers' newsletter, The Green Sheet.  I love to write so I expect this to be lots of fun.  My first "tale" was about Queen Anne's Pocket Melon; I'm still pondering what the next one topic will be!