Fortunately for me, although I was annoyed at the time, I
was unable to get attention from anyone at Staples last Friday afternoon. A Saturday morning search on the Net pointed
me to a laptop sale at Staples, which prompted me to call them, leading me to
pick up my new laptop for almost $100 less than I would have paid if anyone
would have given me time in the store the day before. It seems everything does happen for a
reason. It’s still in the box. JoeComputer transferred my old info to the new
and I might have time to play with it tomorrow afternoon.
The extremely active, small but loud, Kindergarten little
ones at the school planted more microgreens today. Em stole the show with her illustrated talk
about Compost. Next week we’ll start a special
project to be ready by Mother’s Day.
Sprouts – the idea of starting the Broccoli Brassica Mix a
day earlier worked nicely.
Garlic - Jennie, our main gardener is also an
organic gardener on her personal time.
She has excellent garlic from her fall harvest, which I’ve been using
for our hummus. I told her you might
like to buy some. I’ll add it to my list
below but I need to let you know it’s not mine, but it’s really nice and I know
you love garlic.
I was pleased to make our first delivery of microgreens and
sprouts to Gina at Little Sisterz in
Spencerville this week. I picked up some
of her vegan lasagna for dinner tonight.
It looks delicious and smells wonderful as it warms up in the oven. It will go nicely with the kale salad I’m
making after I get this email to you.
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| basil plants taking off to new heights |
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| beautiful micros |
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| hot peppers getting tall |
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| trays upon trays waiting for spring |
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Each week is different as we’ve been mixing
the microgreens up a bit for variety and each week we sow new seeds for what’s
to come once we can get outside. We have
a few trays on heat mats in the greenhouse with more herbs, flowers and lots of
celery. I was absolutely not expecting
lows of -20C. Despite this drop in
temperature, I see some seeds have sprouted and spy more each time I spritz
them. We planted spinach, some mesclun
mix and more pansies and transplanted some lettuces in the greenhouse. Some rotten scoundrel of a rodent has been,
not only digging to chew on the tulip bulbs we planted in November, but
actually taking the big leaves and dragging them towards it’s exit path but isn’t
able to pull them through, so just
leaves them – grrrrrr. Those
flowers are for the bees when they awaken from their sleep in the mason bee
house.
IMPORTANT - I’ll deliver Thursday next week before the long weekend. As they take 6 days from start to finish, please let me know before Friday this week if you’d like me to grow sprouts for you. Otherwise, I won’t do up more sprouts than I need for Arlington Five and Little Sisterz as they have standing orders.
This week’s menu contains the following:
GARLIC, Jennies: Korean Purple and Music $10 / pound
GRANOLA:
with fruit $8 /500mL jar
with nuts and fruit $10 /500mL
jar
HUMMUS chickpeas*,
tahini*, olive oil*, lemon juice*, roasted garlic*, a teeny bit of hot pepper
flakes* and cumin (*organic) $5 250/mL jar
MICROGREENS: $2 / bag
Arugula
Radish
Sunflower Shoots
MICROGREEN MIX: (arugula, basils, chard,
radish, mesclun mix, mizuna) $3 / bag
SPROUTS $3 / bag
Broccoli Brassica Blend (broccoli, broccoli raab,
radish, mustard & arugula)
Premium Mix (Alfalfa, Red Clover, Broccoli, Arugula and
Basil)
Sandwich Booster (clover, alfalfa, radish & mustard)
Tomato Sauce $6 /500mL jar sealed
Tomatoes, frozen $4 /4Cup package great for sauces and
soups
Tomatoes, Gardeners’ Delight (ping pong ball size)
frozen whole $3 pound
I look forward to receiving Your Special Order. Call or
email me with amounts you’d like and any questions.
Thanks.
Until next post, have a great every day.
Jo
joanne.daybrighteners@gmail.com
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