Tuesday 31 March - Coronapocalypse edition

Done:

• coffee, breakfast
• put in a load of laundry
• drained and rinsed jars of mung beans and salad sprouts
• watered flat of microgreens, planted out half the punnet of brocolette into empty spots in #3 and #4 (where previous seedlings got chomped), picked a pocketful of tomatoes
• sowed a punnet of kale "Cavolo Nero", also into the wooden box on #5
• dirty laundry round-up (Eric), put in laundry #2
• family time: played D&D with Hugh and Eric 
• foraged for blackberries
• break for fizzy water; took VitB12 tablet

• hang out 2 loads of laundry
• showered and got dressed
• clean out the slowcooker, put in spaghetti sauce

  To Do:

• Cooking/Food Prep:
• make spaghetti sauce (slow cooker)
• make chia puddings
• make amazeballs (please)
• make silverbeet tofu quiche with cauliflower almond crust
• Laundry:
• do 1-2 loads of laundry, hang out undercover
• sort and put away any laundry that is in or comes into the house
• sow some seeds
• spring onions - try sowing in a window box then bringing it inside to the living room?
• lettuce (windowbox); bring window box from Dan's courtyard into my courtyard for some TLC
• kale (1 punnet of Red Russian for succession planting)
• chives 
• purple sprouting broccoli (then transplant to pots to overwinter inside, then plant outside after frost for spring cropping)
• plant something 
• yak shaving: spray paint big pot for stevia
• second leek resprout in #4
• go foraging
• apples; blackberries
• preserving: 
• clean out a big jar, try first small batch of sauerkraut
• make apple blackberry compote
• try pickling or fermenting green tomatoes?
• transfer frozen blackberries to tub; freeze diced rhubarb and start a new tub
• harvest something: 
• rhubarb; ripening tomatoes; silverbeet
• manage food storage: 
• update next week's shopping list as appropriate (ongoing)
• put the freezer stockpile items in the freezer; sort stockpile as needed
• put almond meal in a jar or put the bag in the freezer 
• Garden (other):
• chuck some old cow manure around the rhubarb
• ORDER VEGIE MIX before my cabbage and brocolette seedlings spend too long in their punnets
• Community resilience:
• Country Brewer for Fowler's kit 
• LLSG for vegie mix

• put in laundry #1 (clothes) - on hold due to rain
• (with Eric) install fence/gate posts along the east border of the food forest - on hold due to rain
• install round galv iron bed in plum orchard - on hold due to rain
• Dan's courtyard: dig out and level area behind brick step, add pavers (may need builder's sand) - on hold due to rain
• hang out laundry #1, put in laundry #2 - on hold due to rain
• hung out laundry #2, put in laundry #3  - on hold due to rain
• hung out laundry #3, put in laundry #4 - on hold due to rain
• bring in dry laundry that got wet again overnight, sort and put away all of mine - on hold due to rain
• hung out laundry #4, brought in dry laundry - on hold due to rain