We should of been planting peas this week. It didn’t happen.
We have come to expect days in the 50’s with a few days in the 70’s in February. This is a different year.
Frank, the market manager at Yorkmont shared with me two Saturday’s ago that the avg. daily high this time of year is 45 degrees but this year, it is 35 degrees.
We have plenty of winter work we had planned to do but what we have been doing is the bare minimum, pulling on rubber boots, putting on layers of clothing, and doing what must be done.
We need to build some fences. To get our pigs on pasture and to section off an acre of my dad’s cattle pasture where this year’s potatoes are going.
So we wait and try not to get a big hurry. We practice season extension both early and late but have learned that most stuff tastes the best when it is consumed in season.
We do love our canned tomatoes and frozen peppers and squash this time of year though.
We discovered a recipe last summer that we fell in love with, Cajun Squash Casserole. I am not a fan of canned or frozen squash but we froze some last summer specifically for this dish. Jenifer made it last week. It was a blast of summer. Not quite as good as stuff right out of the garden but darn close. Use butter where the recipe calls for margarine.
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