I make the same pasta salad but I add some pepperoni or some salami and sometimes both and maybe some fresh broccoli and cauliflower. I almost turn it into a one bowl dinner and my husband loves it and when my kids were home they would eat a big bowl of it in one sitting. I love your videos.
I really enjoy your videos, Katie, they're great! You cover everything from gardening to groceries, family life, so much fun. I'm curious to see where you will be living ,I hope it turns out good for you! Stay safe and God bless, greetings from Germany 💚
I heard somewhere that pine needles are too acidic for most plsnts, but good for things like blueberry plants. Will be interesting to see how your garden does with it.
That is true Kitty!! Do you have a recommendation? I think lime is supposed to help? Our soil is very acidic😅 I struggle to grow in the ground but my container plants and raised beds do really well- so I’m bringing in soil to mix with my dirt in the raised beds. I’m using the pine needles as “mulch” to help keep moisture in the dirt. Frugal- using what’s available to me. This may be my last garden season here- life is still up in the air and I don’t want to invest too much here. Thanks for watching!!
@@RowesRising Hi Katie I'm good we getting very close to winter the side it's cold but I'm still doing my garden cabbage broccoli cauliflower spinach peas and beans that all growing still
That’s is so awesome!! I do have onions and garlic planted and after this trip more is getting planted. I know my family in Virginia grows an epic garden. When I was really young, my parents fed us from the garden all year with canned goods etc. it was amazing. We don’t have it that good at this elevation in the mountains- it’s still freezing and frosty at nights here. I look forward to living with a longer growing season. Cause it’s near impossible here to grow without a high tunnel or green house- I haven’t invested cause we plan to move in the next year or less.
@gardengrowinmawmaw8642 yes it is! I can’t seem to convince Aaron to move back to the valley. It’s so fertile! And most people don’t have to fence to keep the deer out😅 I battle the deer every year. I have to mend my fence and make it higher 🥴
I don’t know where you get the shrinky dinkys From and I can’t remember if you have a Walmart, but Walmart sells them on all the seasons. So they had a whole bunch of Christmas ornament ones I bought them up when they were 90% off so just a couple days ago the girls were coloring Santa’s and Christmas belles and wreathes And the neighbor kids asked we had Christmas stuff out… Because I got like 150 for four dollars 😂 Walmart usually has them in kids to make like ornaments or they had Halloween ones the last ones I saw were the spring ones where you make them to make little like hanging things on your Easter basket. There are a bunch there I’m waiting for them to hit 90% because that is by far one of my kids favorite activities Love the video in general!!
I will definitely check out their clearance section after holidays. I got these from Fred Meyers. They are so much fun! An artist friend of mine makes jewelry with the blanket ones- she prints her designs on them and they are so cool! Thanks for sharing Nicky!!
Peppers are so slow to germinate! Bottom heat helps, but they're still slow. Have you ever grown ground cherries? They're related to tomatoes and tomatillos, and they taste a little like pineapple. I have 10 seedlings growing under lights right now, and I'm looking forward to this summer when they produce fruit!
I have heard of them Margaret but I have never grown them. Where did you get seeds? They sound delicious!! The garage is cold, I thought about a heating pad for germination- but haven’t invested- hoping we will be in a climate I don’t need to. We are in Grants Pass today and I’m a little jelly of how things grow so much better here than up the mountain😅
And I should mention- I have better luck with cherry tomatoes and the smaller varieties because of the short season. A lady here in Keno- she grew amazing tomatillos and sold them in her farm stand, so I thought I would try them this year. I hope I have a good harvest- I spend so much time and in years past the moles and gofers get so much, then the deer. I’m glad I can feed them all😂😂😂
@@RowesRising You can get them from Territorial Seeds or Johnny's. When I was a kid, one of our neighbors grew them and would give us bowls of them. They're really productive. Hers self-sowed every year. We love them--I bet your kids would gobble them up. I've grown tomatillos here, and they did really well, though of course I'm at the bottom of the valley. I only grow cherry tomatoes-they're so productive and flavorful. Glad you're fattening up the wildlife!
@MargaretUIUC I have a variety of tomatoes I’m experimenting with. I have heard that hanging the whole tomato plant from the ceiling upside down with all the big green tomatoes, works for some folks here. Another man down the road- he plants his tomato plants early but he has a system to insulate the plants with, a PVC pipe to water their roots, a bucket with the bottom cut out over the plant and mulch around the bucket. He then places a piece of wood over the top of the bucket at night. I have not collected such an assortment of supplies- but I’m keeping my eye out and trying to be resourceful for my garden. I’m saving/using milk jugs to cover my plants when we do have frosty nights. My neighbors have an awesome high tunnel. If we stay here I’m getting one! It’s seems necessary.
Hello Sandie, Because this was never “home” for us. Our families are in Virginia. Our elderly fathers are there (both our mothers have passed, mine before I ever had children of my own). We would like to be within driving distance of them. All of our brothers, sisters, nieces, and nephews live on the east coast. We are in Oregon, I do have cousins here that we visit on occasion. I’d like for our children to grow up with extended family cause they have never had that experience. Half our kids were born in the UK. Then we moved here. They have never had a holiday or birthday celebration with extended family. It’s always only ever been just me and Aaron… and we are ready for family, community, and a support system. BUT- we don’t know what the future holds. There is opportunity here. So we are still weighing it all out. We should k ow in the next6months to a year if we will stay here or move. The military funds our last move so we have 3 years from his retirement to use that benefit. Time is ticking.
@sandiebrown8291 thank you Sandie. We tried to make it back knowing Aarons mother was not in great health. We didn’t make it home in time and she passed suddenly 2 years ago. It’s been really hard being so far away for the past 13 years. We have missed a lot. Our kids don’t know any different but my heart does.
@@RowesRising I'm sorry that would break my heart not making it home in time I pray everything works in your favor to return home I no it's hard I didn't mean to offend you by my comment I totally understand I'm lucky I'm 65 and took care of my parents till their last breath. Now I live with my daughter and grandson and son in law I couldn't imagine being a part.
@sandiebrown8291 That is so special that you are with them. I hope to be close with our children as they grow older. We want a future with our children and grandchildren that our kids didn’t get. We hope to have 3 or 4 generations of Rowe’s around the dinner tables at holidays. That would be a dream come true for me. 🥰
