Hospital Visit

     This week I'd turning out to be a busy one! Sunday night I all of sudden had an allergy attack, I couldn't breathe. I wasn't dying but I was short of breathe. I took a Benadryl but it didn't help, so I took another one still not helping much. I couldn't figure out what was making me have the attack. I decide to go to work, I really thought it was an allergy attack and my boss house is so clean and I haven't had an attack there before. I popped a Benadryl and left. Well it didn't really clear up and I was feeling so much worst when I got home. I decide to call the doctor. It was 9 pm thank God I have an amazing doctor, I told him what was going on and he was going to get me scribes to get medicine that night and see him first thing in the morning. After talking to him for 5 minutes he decide to send me to the hospital. 4 hours later, 6 tubes of blood, urine test, 2 X-rays, and EKG ~ I was diagnosed with pneumonia.

     The doctors have but me on 3 different kinds of medicine. :(

Dr. Medican

     Now I, also taking echinacea, honey and chamomile tea. Echinacea is used to help fight infections. (Read more here) I grew it in my garden this yard and just bought seeds to grow more. Last fall I also made echinacea tonic. This is use add to tea or a few drops on your tongue, I use it in the tea so I don't taste it. (Here is a video on how to make your own tonic) Honey is good for the body to help build the immune system. (Read more here) Chamomile tea is use to help you sleep. I really need it because I have only slept 7 ours in the last 72 hours and that is not good for my body. I personal need 7-9 hours of sleep.

          Here is hoping this clears up soon and I'm back to normal. What do you do when you get sick? Have you every had pneumonia? How long did it take for you to get over it?

Gardening~ 13 & 12 Weeks before Average Date of Last Frost

According to my book Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook, we are on 12 weeks before last frost. This week is shared with week 11 too. I am putting week 13 and 12 together because I missed last week, being sick.

Weekly Gardening Goals

1. Build a Cold Frame
2. Plant Rutabaga, Collards, Lettuce, Kale, Swiss Chard, Strawberry, Echinacea
3. Check seedling- make sure they are water when needed
4. Make bird house


How are you doing in your garden? Are you staying on track with the weeks?

 

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Green Onion from scraps- Update

I cut this out of my pot I have been growing in the house. This is a way to save money and have health organic herbs on hand. (here is how I started them)

This green onions have started root, and I will plant them outside come spring. For now I will let them grow and use them in recipe.

Do you have an thing scraps growing in the kitchen, that you use though out the year?

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Spinach & Ricotta Cheese 25 minute dinner ~ Recipe

This recipe is a keeper! I found it in Family Feasts for $75 a Week: A Penny-wise Mom Shares Her Recipe for Cutting Hundreds from Your Monthly Food Bill on pg169. I did change the recipe a little to work for my family. I also made this two different ways, one for my family and one for my boss's family. They wanted sausage add to the recipe.

Ingredient 
1 lb of bow-tie pasta
2 tbsp and 1/2 tsp of olive oil
4-6 green onions
10 oz of frozen spinach
1 tsp of salt
1 tsp of black pepper
1/4 tsp of ground nutmeg
1 1/2 cups of  ricotta cheese


Step 1 - Add 2 Tbsp of olive oil to a deep skillet, heat over med heat, and I add my chopped green onions right away. (These were grown from scraps in my window sill.) Meanwhile put water on for pasta.

 Step 2 - If you are adding the sausage, is to cut them out of the casing and into little meat balls. (We add 2lbs of meat)

Step 3 - Add the sausage to the pan, and brown it. Add salt, pepper and nutmeg to the pan too.

Step 4 - Add the pasta to the boiling water. I don't add salt, to my meal. My boss does like it so this is when I add the salt to her pot. I also add a 1/2 tsp olive oil to the pot. (this helps the noodles not stick together)

Step 5 - Add the spinach. (the book says to squeeze the spinach dry) I did not do this, because I want the spinach juice to be more of a sauce.

Step 6 - Add the ricotta cheese, cook it until warm.

Step 7 -  Add the cooked pasta to the spinach mixture.

Step 8- Serve!

This recipe is great! It was easy and fast and tasted great!

Weekend off

Sorry you haven't heard from me today and yesterday. Hubby got home today!! I'm so excited! We are enjoying our time together. I'll be back tomorrow with my weekly menu, my weekly goals, week 13 gardening goals. And what I have done this week.
See you tomorrow :)

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How I transplant my sprouted seeds

Transplanted Spouts :)

Today I got time to transplant the rest of my leeks, 5 of my curly parsley, and 1 flat leave parsley. Here is what I did.
1. I found my clean pots (click here to see how I clean my pots with vinegar)

My Clean pots

 2. I label my pots.

3. I use my homemade dirt (click here to read how I made my dirt)

4. Fill the pot up and inch. I do this so the roots have room to grow on the bottom.

5. I add the pellet to the dirt.

 

 6. I gentle hold the plant so I can add the dirt.

7. I add the dirt. I use a cup so I couldn't take a picture.

8. If there are many of the seeds that spouted I'll transplant them all together in a couple of weeks see which ones are the best.

9. I don't pat down the dirt, so a little will sink down. I water from the bottom so most won't sink and it will get the root more room to span out. I also water at the bottom hoping that it will help the roots want to grow toward the bottom.

This is how I get my transplants ready for the garden. They will stay in this pots until April. They will be move to the green greenhouse and then to the big one before they get planted. That will happen when there is not more room in the basement, for them.

Do you transplant your pellet in bigger pots, or just plant them with the pellet? 

 

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