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 Uncategorized on 5 May 2008 | No Comments »
Yes - the main reason I raise most of my plants in modules prior to planting out, is to protect them from pests.. mostly slugs, but also mice. I experimented with planted peas direct this year, and mice ate the lot. So it is somewhat depressing to find there is a mouse (or mice) in [...]
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