Pretzels, Spring and Downeast

5 years ago

Spring is not here but it is coming. The mountains of snow around my house are melting if still huge. My road is dissolving into cold muck and posted signs are up. Today’s goal is to rearrange furniture to accommodate my growlights. Anyone trying any new veggies in their gardens this year. I need to do a seed inventory and then a possible visit to Johnny’s and Fedco which are nearby. I am going to try to exercise restraint this year. I grew too much last year.

My mom and her partner are babysitting my stepsisters youngest. He is three going on whirlwind. We made pretzels. We ate them with something called sharp Irish mustard - a nice hot mustard.

And to toot my own horn. I don’t know if Downeast magazine is available out of Maine. We are in the April food edition. We spent yesterday trying to get some spoons made. https://downeast.com/

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agmss15
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5 years ago

Anglophilia - There is a running debate about how bad this mudseason will be. Every year and especially with a changing climate is different.

Annie - I know the actual magazine is out on newsstands but I am not sure when April will be up on their website.

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annie1992
5 years ago
agmss, I like that. "3 going on whirlwind", it's very much like a couple of my grandkids, LOL. And is that one of the serpents which was driven from Ireland by St. Patrick?

I've never seen DownEast Magazine, and your link takes me to the magazine, but with no direction on how to find YOU in it. Where are you, like what page or section?

Annie
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Anglophilia
5 years ago
Sounds like "Mud Season" may be arriving! Isn't it a bit early? When we were in Fryeburg, my husband said it was usually from mid-April to mid-May.
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annie1992
5 years ago
Ah, so you're in April's issue. That would explain why I couldn't find you, LOL.

Hopefully you'll have as much business as you want, with that advertising! I know you make some beautiful things.

Heck, the only thing I made it into was one Taste of Home Christmas cookbook with my salsa recipe, and I think that's as famous as I'm ever going to get. Well, I DID get one recipe published in our electrical cooperative's monthly newsletter and made it into the local paper once, but that was when I retired. (grin)

Annie
2ManyDiversions
5 years ago
Your pretzels look good! Haven't made any since early last spring. Love the serpent! Congrats on the magazine article : )

"Anyone trying any new veggies in their gardens this year." If we get our garden in (still up in the air about that, might not be until next summer but can't help but keep fingers crossed for this year) - I do hope to get tomatoes and green beans at the least. I'd like to try heirloom tomatoes now. Okra, peppers, lettuce, arugula maybe, garlic, asparagus, and... well, my want list is long! It will all be new to me as we tore out our smaller garden to put in drainage pipes and the standard "best boys" tomatoes were pretty much all we've had other than garlic and herbs.
sleevendog (5a NY 6aNYC NL CA)
5 years ago
I also tried to find the article but realized it will be on-line after the month hard copy expires. Congratulations!.
agmss15
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5 years ago
Growlight stand is up and half the lights installed. I inventoried seeds yesterday. I hope to exercise some self restraint when picking up more - I need a few sweet pepper and tomatoes varieties.

I had hoped to put some seeds in today but of my growlights was acting up - seems to be shorting out. I need to investigate before I leave it on while not at home.
annie1992
5 years ago
Restraint? Agmss, you're talking about planting things. In the spring. No restraint allowed, LOL.

I ordered two more lights for my set up, and then I'll start planting. The aspabroc was new last year and I'll do that again, as were the Ajvarski and Sugar Rush peppers, and those will be repeats. I will be planting a couple of new-to-me tomatoes, including Moonglow and something called Giraffe that's supposed to store for 5 months. We'll see.

I also bought some new beans, Kebarika, a bush bean that is supposed to be varying shades of purple when used as shelled beans, and an okra called "Chubby" that is said to be 6 inches in circumference. Oh, and since I have a problem with root maggots I plan to plant some radishes in a plastic swimming pool I used for the ducks a couple of years ago, so I have watermelon radishes, green radishes and pink radishes.

I can't help myself, I just have to grow stuff.....

Annie
agmss15
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5 years ago
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Annie - was that you on Etsy? Or another Annie. Whichever Annie - Thank you!

Yup - all control is lost in the seed buying phase - imaginary garden stage with no rocks, weeds or bugs. Especially when I go directly to the seed companies. At Fedco where I get to pick directly from the seed bins catalog in hand - one of these, two of those and ohh look at that and that..

Last year though my garden got ahead of my energy and time for it. And I dedicated too much space to experiments. I hope to be a bit more organized this year.
annie1992
5 years ago
Must be another Annie, agmss, but I wish it were me!

I inventoried seeds today. I made a tactical error when I bought a box of seeds from 2018 at the online auction. Hundreds of packages and a lot of things I haven't grown or heard of, and a bunch of different tomatoes. So I'm sitting here thinking "well, I could grow two of those and two of those and four of those and try that new Italian frying pepper and I've never grown salsify, and maybe I can get Elery to till up a different spot for popcorn to isolate it from my sweet corn and what would I use for trellis for pole beans". (grin)

I also got my lights up today, I'll be planting the first seeds tomorrow, probably, barring someone needing me for something.

Annie

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