I still need to make semolina bread, but I think I'll wait and do it on Saturday.
I also want to try a Ginsberg rye recipe this weekend, but it calls for sunflower and flax seeds. I do have some flax seeds but they're quite old and I should just recycle them.
They're now forecasting a low of 38 for Sunday night, keeping my fingers crossed it doesn't get so cold it affects the plants. 38 and rain would probably be OK, 38 and windy, not so much
I did half of the tomatoes last night, the rest this morning.
I didn't do any melons last year, and I did a lot more eggplants this year than last. I have 24 tomato cages, but I dropped several varieties from last year (including Mortgage Lifter and Brandywine) and did more of our favorites, including Italian Heirloom and Amish Paste. I also put in two Celebrity, which I didn't do last year.
I've already got soaker hoses running all through the garden, including where the melons and eggplants are, so I should be in good shape other than things like weeding. I'm hoping that the 4th of July will have some fruit ready by their namesake date.
My garden is planted, 24 cages of tomatoes, 11 eggplants (2 varieties), 5 melon plants (2 varieties) and 4 melon hills that didn't sprout under the lights but might in the ground.
The 5 leeks went in one of my wife's pots, along with some French tarragon and sage.
Our plan for tonight is burgers on the grill, plus salad.
My vegetable gardening is minor league compared to what my wife does every year with her flower pots. She bought about 10 flats worth of plants, including 5 leeks that we haven't decided whether to try them in a pot or in the ground somewhere.
I moved most of my plants (7 varieties of tomatoes, 2 varieties of eggplant and 2 varieties of cantaloupe) outside Sunday afternoon and will start planting them late this afternoon. There are some temps in the low 40's forecast for this weekend, but I think I'll risk it. I've already got soaker hoses set up winding through the garden.
I waiting until last night to make my banana nut mini-muffins because I was waiting for a new mini-muffin pan to test.
It is a CasaWare pan with a ceramic coating on it ordered through Amazon. I used it for all 5 batches last night (120 mini-muffins), lightly buttering the pan before each batch, and it worked great, they all came out cleanly and I can wipe off the excess off the top with a soft cloth. I'm ordering another one soon and the old ones will be retired.
Thanks for the big laugh, BA!
We had burgers on the grill again, plus salads, we ate on the patio while watching for birds.
We've seen as many as six at a time at ours. It's pretty clear we have several pairs in the area, not sure if they're all Baltimore orioles, though. We may also be seeing some orchard orioles and possibly scarlet and western tanagers.
We have the Merlin bird identifier app on our iPhones, it identifies them by sound or picture, the sound finder finds quite a few birds we're not sure we're seeing and it could be false positives. It finds red wing blackbirds nearly every day and I can't really say I've seen any in town, I have seen them out on country roads, sitting on fence posts.
I don't do a lot of experimental baking in hot weather. I didn't do a lot of it this past winter, either, when hot weather wasn't my excuse. 🙂
The early plan was for burgers on the grill again tonight, it is currently 95 outside. But there's also a thunderstorm warning until 6:30 so we might be having dinner after that.
I will need to make semolina bread soon, but I think I'll wait a day, it is supposed to be in the 90's again today but the low 80's tomorrow.
We had tacos tonight.
