Monday, March 25, 2013

The Sweet and The Spicy

This past weekend was the time to start my pepper seeds indoors. I've tried to set up Saturday's as my seed starting day for each week but this Saturday I was quite busy. My family and I ventured down to Farmington Hills (about an hour drive from Lansing) to visit my friend from childhood and school, Mr. Steve Pyrc and his beautiful family. It was a day spent visiting, watching basketball, and eating. Our daughter and his two daughters seemed to play wonderfully together (even if they got a little tired of Jack trying to enter and disrupt their play space). The day was a success and saw us getting home much later than the kids normal bed time. After their one moment of over tired crying (our 6 year old while still half asleep from the car started crying claiming she didn't get to do everything she wanted. This must have included sleeping on the couch because that is exactly what she did as soon as we entered the house), they went to bed shortly after we got home.

Speaking of watching basketball and March Madness, I believe I have a different kind of March Madness. The urge to plant more things than I should before it is time. As I got out my pepper seeds, I found myself getting out all kinds of different seeds thinking that maybe, just maybe, I could get away with planting them. So, on a gloomy Sunday afternoon, I attempted to get my madness under control and rechecked the planting and starting dates for all of the other seeds I had in front of me. All except for the peppers needed to wait (which I knew but momentarily lacked the self control to execute). So on Sunday I put in cayenne pepper seeds as well as Red Knight bell pepper seeds. I grew the cayenne's last year and they were wonderfully spicy. I still have some dried in my spice cabinet. The Red Knight bell peppers are a new strain I am trying that are good early as green peppers or for letting them ripen to red peppers.

I won't bore you with the pictures of just plain dirt that the seeds are in. Peppers are notorious for slow germination but as soon as they come up, pictures will go up. Until then I'll continue to keep an eye on my sprouts that I already have and on this weather. You know, the weather that stubbornly is staying around 30 degrees and refusing to warm up. Soon enough I suppose :)

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