Hot Pepper Seeds

  This afternoon, I collected all of the hot peppers I’ve dried over winter to harvest seed for the upcoming season. Several of the peppers had rotted toward the center. I threw those out. Others rattled so perfectly, I decided to save them for the sheer joy of listening some rainy day this spring. The rest I cracked open…

Winter Squash

With the view from my window looking like this: Spring feels a long ways off! But it’s just around the corner (or so I keep reminding myself). As you know, I’ve already started some seedlings, a few of which I’ll be planting outside just as soon as we’re able to work the ground. And before…