tsurrie's 2020 glog

Devv · Mar 31, 2020

Good to see your plants are doing well Uros!

This global lock down issue is scary for sure, we're hunkered down in the boonies, decently stocked and hanging in there. Asked LB how well we were stocked (before things got crazy), "we good for 4 months". I always teased her about "Lorimart", now I'm impressed!

Be safe!

tsurrie · Apr 1, 2020

PaulG said:
Better safe than sorry, my friend. Being out in
your own garden is probably okay since you
are not exposed to anyone else. Our stay-at-home
order is now extended to April 30. I wish our
weather was better, but nice weather is at least
6 to 8 weeks away.

True. Will try to stay safe. The weather will come and hopefully normal life too. I just hope we can all wait it out decently and stay healthy.
The time flies by for us.. it's hard to combine school at home, work and all the worries. It's a weird time, but we'll get through.
Stay safe and good luck with everything.

Devv said:
Good to see your plants are doing well Uros!

This global lock down issue is scary for sure, we're hunkered down in the boonies, decently stocked and hanging in there. Asked LB how well we were stocked (before things got crazy), "we good for 4 months". I always teased her about "Lorimart", now I'm impressed!

Be safe!

Good to hear you're safe and stocked Scott. They always know what's right Scott, but there's nothing wrong with a little teasing.
It's good to be stocked these days.

You too, stay safe!

tsurrie · Apr 8, 2020

I prepped the old garden today, so we can plant some veggies soon. The dirt is sooo dry, now we really need some rain soon.

In the meantime, with home schooling and working on and off....we're trying to spend as much time as we can outside in nature.
We've been picking some wild garlic. The hills around us are full of this marvelous plant. We use it for soups, pestos, pasta sauces, ... it's delicious.

Also letting the kids to put off some steam... they really enjoyed some of the last snow...

and I've been mastering the sourdough, step by step with ups and downs

still a long way to go I guess. My starter is fine, I really get the activity, but the result is not always so good.

This one I left to rise too long and it got a little sour. But we'll eat it for sure, still good.

the starter is always active enough

PaulG · Apr 8, 2020

Good to see you getting out, Uros.

Garden plot looks like it's yearning for
pepper plants! Looks like you have a
pretty large yard space.

We've been pretty dry here, as well.
Time to hook up the water hoses!

tsurrie · May 2, 2020

PaulG said:
Good to see you getting out, Uros.

Garden plot looks like it's yearning for
pepper plants! Looks like you have a
pretty large yard space.

We've been pretty dry here, as well.
Time to hook up the water hoses!

I think the yard you're talking about is not ours, the picture where the kids are playing is from the forrest

We have a house and a garden, and a yard for kids to play but not nearly as big as that one.
Lucky for us, we're a few minutes away from the forrest. Small town advantage.

The garden finally got some rain, so we're ready to plant out. Did some today but I'll take pictures together with pots when I transplant some of the peppers too. The seedlings from your peppers are growing fine, Paul. They are still small, but they'll be soon ready. I'll give them a few more days. I put a couple of jalapenos from the nursery into pots though.
This picture is from before the rain. The next one will have some green in it

This is one of the unknowns, the package said Bhut Jolokia, but I bet it isn't true.. or is it. We'll see.

Aji Umba

BJ Chocolate from Paul

Tomatoes are big enough to transplant, but these peppers will wait a few more days

and some cucumbers

Went for a hike with my wife this morning. Rising from the fog up on a sunny hill is always the best way to start a day.

Also been trying to make better sourdough bread than last time. This one from today is pretty darn close.

Darker (black) wheat flour and a bit whole grain.... I'm nearly satisfied :drooling:

Changed the host for pictures, I hope it will work fine. For some reason I cannot add pics to the previous one.

Stay safe everyone. Grow peppers!

tsurrie · May 7, 2020

So, problem with the host. I was trying to find some simple hosting site, but nothing as casual as the one I have came up. Well, it seems to work again so no problem.
Trying to also use Google Drive... maybe it will work fine.

Repeating.... (because I can't edit the previous post)

The garden finally got some rain, so we're ready to plant out. Did some today but I'll take pictures together with pots when I transplant some of the peppers too. The seedlings from your peppers are growing fine, Paul. They are still small, but they'll be soon ready. I'll give them a few more days. I put a couple of jalapenos from the nursery into pots though.
This picture is from before the rain. The next one will have some green in it

This is one of the unknowns, the package said Bhut Jolokia, but I bet it isn't true.. or is it. We'll see.

Tomatoes are big enough to transplant, but these peppers will wait a few more days

and some cucumbers (they grow by the minute)

Went for a hike with my wife this morning. Rising from the fog up on a sunny hill is always the best way to start a day.

Also been trying to make better sourdough bread than last time. This one from this weekend is pretty darn close.

Darker (black) wheat flour and a bit whole grain.... I'm nearly satisfied :drooling:

I hope the pics are now available to be seen :confused:

Stay safe everyone. Grow peppers!

stettoman · May 7, 2020

Man, you have a gorgeous back yard!!

tsurrie · May 8, 2020

stettoman said:
Man, you have a gorgeous back yard!!

Thanks. But our yard is small, I dont know what picture do you mean but I guess I was misunderstood :rofl:

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I was so proud of the sourdough bread on sunday so here's another pic

stettoman · May 8, 2020

Your hiking pics, I was being envious...

tsurrie · May 8, 2020

stettoman said:
Your hiking pics, I was being envious...

Yeah, it's beautiful.
But I bet if you go for a walk somewhere close to you, you could get to a beautiful place too.
You should see where I mountain biked just earlier. Steep but very calm nature. It was a blast after a hard working week.
The guitar has a similar effect on the soul as a nice scenery. It just takes you away somehow.

Devv · May 8, 2020

LB strolled by and had to comment on the bread, which looks great!

She's been making bread here lately, not so much because of the lock-downs, but because she now has the time.
She was wondering how you get the crust so dark? What temp do you bake at?

And the fog/mountain pics are fantastic! We live on a ridge that's 200' (65 meters?) above town, which is 6-7 miles away, and the views are really nice, but no mountains.
I have to post some pics

Looks like your crew of green is ready for the outside!
Good luck!

tsurrie · May 8, 2020

Devv said:
LB strolled by and had to comment on the bread, which looks great!

She's been making bread here lately, not so much because of the lock-downs, but because she now has the time.
She was wondering how you get the crust so dark? What temp do you bake at?

And the fog/mountain pics are fantastic! We live on a ridge that's 200' (65 meters?) above town, which is 6-7 miles away, and the views are really nice, but no mountains.
I have to post some pics

Looks like your crew of green is ready for the outside!
Good luck!

Bread making is magic, if it comes out good... and that one really makes me want to bake again. I just did some dough for pizza, it's going to be tomorrow's lunch.

I guess the crust is dark because of the dark wheat flour and the temp was about 240°C (465°F) for a half an hour, then I lovered it to 200°C for another 20 mins.
The crust darkened fast, so I was a bit afraid it will be overdone. But it wasn't.
And also I put about an half of liter of water on the bottom tray during the baking, which evaporated (steaming the bread) in about 20 mins.

Some bakes at even higher temps. I do make pizza at about 260°C, but not bread, because of the longer baking.

Yeah. Some of the green will be planted tomorrow.

tsurrie · May 13, 2020

We went to the nursery today to pick an eggplant or two... and ended with two more mild chilis, some pumpkins, watermelon for the kids and more... :rofl:

Also bought one Habanero Chocolate, since the seeds I had didn't sprout

these are Jalapenos from previous visit to the nursery (I had them inside for the night because of the cold)

final five pots were filled this evening
BJ Chocolate (PaulG), Habanero Chocolate (nursery), AS chili yellow (nursery)
and in the front JA Red Habanero (PaulG) and Scotch Bonnet (PaulG)

Scotch Bonnets are still small, but I'm hoping they'll pick up the pace

I have some more pots tucked in by the house to keep them warm for another night, will take a group pic soon.
We'll plant on the garden this weekend.

PaulG · May 13, 2020

The nursery plants look good, Uros, nice and healthy.

I'm glad you are having a go at the BJ Chocolate, JA Red
Habanero and Scotch Bonnet MoA. Last season the MoA
plant was on the small side, and the JA Has is more of a
bushy type in our climate, as well. Neither gets really big.
BJ, on the other hand, stand back! Is this the straight BJ
Chocolate or the Orange BJ Choco version?

Keep up the good work!

tsurrie · May 14, 2020

PaulG said:
The nursery plants look good, Uros, nice and healthy.

I'm glad you are having a go at the BJ Chocolate, JA Red
Habanero and Scotch Bonnet MoA. Last season the MoA
plant was on the small side, and the JA Has is more of a
bushy type in our climate, as well. Neither gets really big.
BJ, on the other hand, stand back! Is this the straight BJ
Chocolate or the Orange BJ Choco version?

Keep up the good work!

Your baggie says Orange pods, you can see it one page back.
Thanks for stopping by and for the info. Bonnets are tasty so the size of the pod is not important.

PaulG · May 14, 2020

tsurrie said:
Your baggie says Orange pods, you can see it one page back.
Thanks for stopping by and for the info. Bonnets are tasty so the size of the pod is not important.

Okay, those are the orange pod chocolate BJ.
The pods had a great color and shape last season.
I hope they stay that way for you. Maybe they will
revert back to chocolate. Who knows?

The MoA Bonnets were on the small side, but had
a great phenotype for the most part.

Devv · May 14, 2020

Thanks for the information on the bread. I sent that to the wife

Those new plants look great, here, very few new starts are worth purchasing.

Way too small, and way to much $$$$

tsurrie · May 15, 2020

Devv said:
Thanks for the information on the bread. I sent that to the wife

Those new plants look great, here, very few new starts are worth purchasing.

Way too small, and way to much $$$$

No problem, if it was any help at all.
I think the sourdough makes the crust darker too, because I baked with this kind of flour before and it was never that dark. But I always used yeast before.
I think I officially switched to sourdough now

I mainly bake bread and pizza.

The chocolate hab was only 1,60€ and they were all that big. I just hope it really is chocolate habanero

They also had a bunch of scorpions but this pepper I really love.

tsurrie · May 16, 2020

Tomatoes are in the garden. I just hope they'll start ok. We also planted cucumbers by the wall on the left, under that netting.
So pretty much the same and already tested arrangement of the veggies.

Also tried the sourdough bread again, this time two smaller loaves with spelt, black wheat and rye flour.
Will post a pic or two later on.

PaulG · May 16, 2020

Very clever shelter for the tomatoes, Uros.