Happy Thanksgiving!

It's Thanksgiving, and at my house, that means it's time for...stratifying seeds to plant next year.

Native perennial seeds. Click to enlarge.

Eighty-seven plants are going to replace the last strip of lawn along the south side of my house next year. I am feeling up to the job! But first, most of the seeds will have to put in a wet coffee filter in a plastic bag in the refrigerator for a month or two. This simulated winter will let the seeds know it's time to sprout. Then I will plant them in seed trays and put them under LED lights in the basement. The plants should be full-grown in 2023.

As for Thanksgiving dinner, somehow I don't miss it this year. I disbanded my meetup group a few years ago and the cousin I spent Thanksgiving with last year is visiting relatives in Kansas. Before the meetups and the cousin, Thanksgiving usually meant a big, noisy affair with little kids running around screaming and adults who didn't make two words of conversation because they were busy cooking or watching football or, mostly, we didn't have anything in common. The dinner was dry turkey and high-carb side dishes.

Today, on the other hand, I'll make a low-carb pumpkin pie, collards and figure out something for a main course. The restaurant I was planning to go to is permanently closed. Maybe it's just as well that I'm sticking to the plan that enabled me to regain my health.

Comments

Lowcarb team member said…

Happy Thanksgiving Lori.

All the best Jan

November 25, 2021

Lori Miller said…

Thanks, Jan!

November 25, 2021

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