Our son, Javid, passed away yesterday morning, peacefully, in his sleep. Although it was very hard for me, I know he’d been fighting a good fight for a few years now and was very tired of all the hospital visits, stays, tests, and so on. Now he’s not in a wheelchair or in pain, but is running around with Jesus, able-bodied and happy. We’re planning a small graveside service for him for family and close friends in May.
Besides all that, we’ve been blessed with lots of seed orders, which we’re trying like mad to get processed quickly. Being a small “company,” we can’t offer colored seed packets or catalogs, but we try to excel in customer service for our homesteading family.
I finally got our peppers all planted. This year, to save time, I used Jiffy peat pellets for them, placing the hot water-soaked pellets in flats, in rows which are labeled. Once planted, I put the flats in large plastic bags, closing them, not tightly, and putting them behind our living room wood stove. As our temperatures outdoors have moderated to the low 40’s above zero, and the nights also staying 30 degrees and above, they should germinate quickly. It’ll be several weeks before I start the tomatoes, as the tomatoes grow much faster than peppers do. Last year I started them a little too soon and they kind of got leggy before it was time to set them out. I want stockier, smaller plants this year. It doesn’t pay to get impatient.
Oh, I just wanted to let you know that I got my cultivators from Temu. Some folks said the PO wouldn’t deliver from China or that they would never come. I’m not a Temu fan, but those are exactly the same as the ones I paid $32 for. — Jackie
