A green and ....green basket.
I've been wanting a harvesting basket for a while now. I was even looking on Amazon for one, but the ones I like are pretty expensive. But then I remembered, Cody's old Easter basket is still out in the shed!
As soon as I got home, I went out and got it. It's still in pretty good shape, so I'm going to clean it up and disinfect it.
I think it'll do for now, and I'm going to need it this weekend because all of these peppers are going to get picked and pickled.
Well, maybe not all of them, but most of them and certainly all of the bigger ones. And most of these cayenne peppers will be harvested and hung to dry.
I'm not sure about these tomatoes, though.
Some of the channels say that this is when you pick them because this is when the flavor is at its peak. My only concern is whether they'll last long enough for the rest of the tomatoes to ripen. I've looked at several recipes, and they all say around two lbs of tomatoes. I know at least one of them will be put into a tomato sandwich, but I chose Roma tomatoes so I could make something I could freeze-- like soup. There is no way I could eat that many tomatoes before they all went bad.
Last year, I only had one plant, and I still ended up putting a bunch of tomatoes into the compost. It was such a waste. Thus, soup to go into the freezer.
Now for a bit of bad news, one of the little marigolds didn't make it.
I'm not really surprised, though. Between being eaten down to a nub by slugs, smothered by my lemon balm, picking up what I believe to be powdery mildew, and on top of all that, being moved, the poor thing had been through the wringer. The other one is hanging in there still, so maybe it will make it. I'm thinking that I might buy some seeds and direct sow some instead of trying to move another plant.
While I was out there piddling, I managed to catch a shot of a giant bumblebee on my zinnias.
This morning at work, Demi-god was telling me he has a water leak under his house. Someone had told him it would take $20,000 to fix it. I said, "Noooo, it shouldn't cost that much," and advised him to call around and get quotes from different plumbers. I gave him McCrary's name, which is who I use. He inherited his grandfather's house, which is old and has lots of problems, but still a plumbing repair shouldn't cost near that much.
He told me they were also considering tearing the whole thing down and just buying a trailer house and putting that up on their property. Considering the state of the old house -- Demi-god told me it's burned down twice --that would probably be their best bet.
And finally, I'm watching The Repair Shop right now.
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