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Feverfew ~ Catnip ~ Canned Hot Pepper Jelly

The rain went right off the radar on Tuesday.  Not a drop.  Rain on the radar on Wed. went right off the radar as well.  Sigh.  I had to pick and choose what would be watered, considering the well isn't getting filled up.





I finally got some feverfew put into the dehydrator for winter tea if needed.  I'm hoping if we get rain, I can dehydrate more (it's in a pot vs. the ground).

Once that was dried I loaded it up with catnip.  I make catnip tincture as an ingredient for my bug off spray.  I will also make some catnip pillows for our cats and Mom's cats if I have enough for both.  I want to make my tincture with fresh catnip.
We love hot pepper jelly (now that I know how to really make it hot).  We love it as a go-to snack for gatherings or snacking.  It's great with cream cheese on a cracker.  I couldn't find hot cherry peppers, and did not grow them this year.  I used habanero, serrano, hot banana, hungarian wax, and jalapeno.  We'll taste this in a few weeks to see if it's a good as last years.

The sunrise is quickly moving to the south.  Sigh.  I'm not even ready to pull root veggies (if they even survived this drought).  Just another sign we need to start winter prep.

I overslept again.  Gonna down some nettle/oat straw infusion later, but first I have some work to do.  I forgot to marinate chicken, so dinner is a change of plans, but I need to stick to my list today.  I totally missed some things yesterday.  It's gonna be a very hot above 90 degree day.  Praying we get rain.
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Bovey Belle said…
You've been busy. Our chilli crop is a likely failure as we had to sow them three times. We have plants with flowers on but that's as far as they've got! VERY hot dry spring, then wet, and now back to VERY wet and the tail end of an American storm has flattened all our beans . . .

Hope you are not in the line of Hurricane Laura. Terrifying for the folk who are in Louisiana and Texas.
August 27, 2020 at 11:12 AM
Pioneer Woman at Heart said…
Bovey Belle, sorry to hear about your beans. We are not in the line of the hurricane, but I do pray for those in the path. We have some friends working in TX right now. Haven't heard if they are back yet.
August 27, 2020 at 3:58 PM
Cockeyed Jo said…
With feverfew my migraines became nonexistent. Catnip is aldo good as a cough medicine. Great expectorant.
August 27, 2020 at 9:33 PM
Pioneer Woman at Heart said…
Cockeyed Jo, good to know about catnip for a cough medicine and expectorant.
August 28, 2020 at 7:32 AM
RB said…
We finally got rain here in central NC. I hope the farmers got their tobacco crops in first. I saw them rushing to harvest it to get it hung up to dry in their curing barns. I hope they made it.
We had flash flood warnings all evening. Won't affect us cause we're on a hill, but people downstream often get hit hard. Praying for them.
I love hot pepper jelly, but lady - those peppers you chose will likely peel paint off the walls. LOL
Prayers everyone has a great week. Be safe ya'all.
God bless.
RB
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August 31, 2020 at 10:37 PM
Pioneer Woman at Heart said…
RB, ha ha! With the combination of sugar in the recipe, it's just the right kind of hot for us. We need rain again, and haven't gotten any for a while here.
September 1, 2020 at 6:13 AM
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