Around the Urban Homestead

I came down with a cold this week and am just getting over the last sniffles now. I spent two days of my usual sick routine: laying around with blankies, feeling sorry for myself, and sleeping a lot. Needless to say it wasn’t one of my most productive weeks.

I did clean and re-arrange the bunny room. It’s been sunny for almost 2 weeks straight here, which is unprescidented. It also means the sunroom has been heating up to about 80 by late afternoon. So I moved the cages to the North wall to make sure they were out of the light. My next task will be to put some of the screens in so the poor girls don’t over heat in there. What a wonderful problem at this time of the year though…overheating! I’ve been seeing some sun delays on the freeway too…spring is coming slowly but surely!

I started some new indoor veggies this week. I filled the half barrel planter with carrot seed and left it out in the sunroom. Indoors I started a fresh batch of green onion bulbs and a pot of lettuce. I think these two are my favorites to grow indoors because they grow so fast. The green onions grow visibly each day and are wonderful to have on the kitchen counter to snip fresh scallions right into my dishes. The lettuce pot is already full of inch tall seedlings.

I did my 1 3/8 ounce cucumber harvest yesterday, and have 1 1/8 ounces of herbs from the Aerogardens in the dehydrator now.  That brings my yearly harvest total up to .59 pounds of winter harvest.  It looks like there will be heavier fruit coming soon, as I also had the pleasure of finding the first itty bitty tomato on the cascading tomato today