Serendipity Quilting

We obviously don’t travel that much, but when I realized we would be gone a couple of nights with no rain and upper 90 degrees in the forecast, I googled low tech watering solutions.

Many sources said twine in a bucket of water to the plants. That the water would wick through the twine to the plant. I used kitchen twine. This did NOT work. I do not know what other kind of twine I could have used. I got lucky and the plants survived.

Do you have low tech container watering solutions? I don’t want to invest in timers etc considering we are not gone that often.

Here is another little tip… when roasting cayenne peppers, the small toaster convection oven is NOT a good option…. I knew that dehydrators also make the air very pepper spray like… but I didn’t think about the convection oven doing the same. Luckily I turned it off and carried it outside before any real damage happened.

Well we came home early this morning from our weekend retreat. I’m happy to say there are signs of life every where this morning. The cabana boy thinks this sunflower looks like it is yawning.

This is one of the rogue ones from the bird feed. It’s pretty!!

Mmmmm peppers anyone? Who wants to try that bright red cayenne one for me?

The potatoes are finally starting to flower too!!

And the best sign of life!

Shhhh!!! The baby blue birds are sleeping!!!

The salsa garden shows signs of actual ripening. The princess is bouncing up and down with glee on that one! Which brings me to my next thought…. I’ve never made salsa. I’ll give you a minute to pick yourself up off the floor since I have a reputation for being able to make anything and everything. The cabana boy and the princess were kind enough to read me the ingredients off a jar. Yeah. Uhm… I had a general idea when I planted the garden that I would need tomatoes, cilantro & peppers. So anyone have a good salsa recipe they want to share? If so leave it on your blog and leave a comment with a link to it! We can have an online salsa party!!

If you don’t have a blog and you still want to play, email it to me with express consent of blogging it… other wise I’m just going to gleefully make it and not share the recipe because I wouldn’t want to give away a family recipe. Nope…. not going to have granny chasing me around a kitchen with a sharp object.

Let the salsa party begin!!