Posted in being greener, frugal living, general wittering, house and home on 9 May 2008 | 2 Comments »
I have mentioned a few times that we have too much lawn.. despite digging lots of it up for veg patches.. and plan to bring the fruit garden into the lawn next year.. but still we face the irony of cutting the grass being the only time we use motorised machinery to do any work [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, make it yourself, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 7 May 2008 | No Comments »
what are nettles good for #5 - nettle pasta
After making the nettle beer, I was left with a panful of nettle pulp with a few bits of lemon peel. I picked these out and thought… seems a shame to have done all that tedious nettle picking and then throw them away and only keep the [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, recipes, self-sufficiency, wild foods, tagged nettles on 4 May 2008 | 3 Comments »
what are nettles good for #4
Honestly, I thought nettle beer would be disgusting….and it’s not - its really very good!.. made in a similar way to elderflower champagne (but not quite as wonderful).
Me being me.. I looked at a few recipes for nettle beer, then tweaked it into my own. A hit with us - so [...]
Posted in being greener, frugal living, grow your own food, house and home, make it yourself, self-sufficiency on 2 May 2008 | No Comments »
Now have a water butt set up for the greenhouse. Up until now, we have been collecting rainwater.. but not in the right place. We have a 400 gallon ex-juice container collecting off the old piggery, but to get water to the greenhouse means filling up two watering cans, walking up the lane, up the [...]
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 frugal living, general wittering, recipes on 11 April 2008 | 5 Comments »
I think my tastebuds are ruined. The ones that used to like rubbish.
I have always cooked. I can’t even remember when it began… perhaps beside my mum playing with spare pastry.. I dunno, just brought up cooking.. its natural. And not leaning on ready made food certainly helps you through skint times. But I used [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables, tagged sheep, smallholding, vegetables on 27 March 2008 | No Comments »
I know I have gone on lately about how nice PSB (purple spouting broccoli) is- but it really is a great veg. This is our first year of growing it.. can you tell?!
But there it is, filling the ‘hungry gap’ with something we actually like! - we only put in one row, helped it through [...]
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