Today is home-grown and home-made meal day at our house. This morning we had eggs (from our chickens), sausage (made Saturday), biscuits, and milk (from our goats).
Tonight we are planning Rosemary-Lemon Chicken, roasted cabbage, snow peas, butternut squash, and our home-made soft-drink. Oh, and home-made ice cream for dessert! All food ingredients but the squash were harvested in the last few days or will be later today. The squash was harvested in summer. The ingredients for the soft-drink are not home-grown, but we do make it ourselves. The vanilla extract in the ice cream, is not home-grown, but it is home-made.
Several cabbages are ready to harvest, which means that we'll be making sauerkraut in the next few days.
January is time to plant garlic, onion, and shallot bulbs.
It's time also to prune roses. By the way, if you have plants that have been damaged by frost (like our kiwi vines), do not prune off the damaged parts. They may be ugly, but they'll help protect the rest of the plant from further frost damage.
Rake your lawn and/or your neighbors' lawns for leaves for your compost pile.
Once all the leaves have fallen from your fruit trees, you can prune them. While you are pruning your deciduous trees you can also trim your conifers.
Purchase and plant bare-root roses, fruit trees, vines, and veggies. Camellias and Azaleas, too.
Spray your roses and deciduous trees with a dormant spray.
Order seeds and supplies from seed catalogs (more on that in the next post).
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