So.
We were away for 2 weeks in Cuba recently, just getting back very late on Saturday evening. We spent our time mostly in blissful ignorance of developments outside of our sunny little bubble. Sometime around Thursday, though, we checked in, and spent most of the remaining evenings burning up our WiFi allowance and watching the shit hit the fan.
Saturday night was probably the last comfortable time to get home. Our pre-arranged taxi-driver picked us up without qualms. Don't know what she would think now. At any rate, we are now in isolation for the next, oh, 13 days. Along with pretty much everyone else, it seems.
There is a little coronavirus in Cuba, brought in with Italian tourists. I wonder a little uneasily to which resorts they dispersed, but frankly I am more worried about the hours passed at Pearson airport.
We were going to go to Britain in April, but first the person who was at least part of the reason for going (Dad's partner) died, and then Hurricane Coronavirus hit. I spent much of yesterday cancelling hotels.
It looks like this will be a good spring to put particular emphasis on producing your own food, so I'm likely to start ramping up the gardening posts, as soon as something happens. I can't help but think that supply chains are going to take a hit. Not too late to order some seeds! I don't put it on the list but if you are in an apartment or otherwise can't or won't grow vegetables, you can always do sprouting and microgreens, and Mumm's is probably the best place to get the seeds.
Otherwise, is there anything that people would like to see me working on? We're going to be planting peas with in a week, I hope, as we usually do in early spring, and some barley, which will be a new crop for us.
Stay home and stay safe, everyone.
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Glad you got home safely. I will also be planting soon at my allotment (with social distancing of course if needed). I ordered from William Dam seeds this year; looking forward to getting started in the garden.
One crop I would be interested in is ground cherries. They never seem to germinate for me.
Huh, they are practically weeds. Although, when I think about it we always start them about now, in pots, with up to 6 or 8 seeds per pot. They can be kind of spotty in germinating at the best of times, and weedy to start. Once they are growing in the garden, you just have to miss a few when cleaning up in the fall, and they'll pop up.
I did have a crop failure with the related tomatillo when my seed wasn't fresh, so maybe that's a factor too.
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