Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 30 April 2008 | No Comments »
#3 in what are nettles good for? nettle soup.
I cooked nettles last year and found they were horrible.. now I realise the trick is to only pick young nettles, and to only pick the tips. a bit tedious, and gloves are mandatory, but they are free.. and free is my favourite price. There are lots [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, general wittering, house and home, self-sufficiency, tagged solar energy on 29 April 2008 | No Comments »
I remember my mum once telling a visitor that the reason they were insulating the loft was because the garden was falling into the river.
It’s logical really - let me explain. My parents had chosen to buy a house with problems, and a large garden, rather than a perfect house with no garden. ( See? it [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged vegetables on 28 April 2008 | No Comments »
Having officially given up on my plans to grow parsnips in toilet roll tubes due to birds, probably jackdaws, ripping them out of the ground again, the parsnip experiments continue, and this time I have chitted them.
I placed them in kitchen towel, kept the paper wet, and folded over the seeds and in a tray [...]
Posted in home education, wild foods, tagged nettles on 28 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
#2 Interesting home education experiment: colour changing nettle tea
I got this idea from this site when I was looking for recipes for nettle tea. Actually you don’t need a recipe for nettle tea.. it is nettles and hot water! … but best to choose young nettle tips. The tea will be green.. darker green the [...]
Posted in general wittering, house and home, self-sufficiency, tagged nettles on 27 April 2008 | 8 Comments »
We have far too many nettles.. in the hedges, in the ‘wild’ areas (such as around the pit of despair), but most annoyingly in the fields. The fields were let go a great deal before we got here and the fight against the nettles seems never ending. They are out as far as two metres [...]
Posted in general wittering, grow your own food, house and home, self-sufficiency, vegetables, tagged butterflies, scything, vegetables on 26 April 2008 | No Comments »
Lots of flowers out in the garden now, the bluebells are out in force, and we have white and pink ones in the garden, as well as ordinary blue ones in the lane and under the trees. Also see a surprisingly large number of butterflies.. are they early or am I just mis-remembering when they [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, tagged sowing; seeds on 25 April 2008 | No Comments »
The sowing continues.. it feels like the big push now to get everything sown.. at the same time not getting carried away and sowing the frost delicate stuff too soon. sowed more carrots, swede (first go at that) PSB, pumpkin (little early but I threw down the gauntlet at my dad.. so the race is [...]
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, tagged chickens on 24 April 2008 | No Comments »
Despite Stoney pointing out that chickens are better at numeracy than sheep.. they are still stupid.
We have 4 hens… one is brooding her chicks, and one is not laying (and if she keeps this up.. the word ‘casserole’ might be mentioned a bit more), so that leaves us with two hens laying eggs. In the [...]
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