This week I’ve been busy baking, making and harvesting among the final gadgets from my backyard. Let’s see what I’ve been doing.
First photograph is of my ginger plant. Waaaay again at the beginning of the 12 months, Fred confirmed us a photograph of his ginger plant which impressed me to attempt rising one too. I planted a ginger root which I purchased on the backyard centre in early February. It took a loooong time to do something, however many weeks later a shoot appeared. I’ve saved the plant in my conservatory all summer season and it has grown many extra shoots.
So final weekend, I had a peak on the roots to see what was occurring. I gently broke off three roots. They’re fairly enjoyable – I feel that the center one seems to be like a triceratops! There could even be a child unicorn within the far proper root.
I had a plan to make chrysrallised ginger. Ginger has a lot of good medical attributes. I used a recipe from Georgina at From The Larder. Though I solely had round 200g of root, I tailored the recipe and the amount labored for me. I’ve left the remainder of the plant to proceed to develop, however I might undoubtedly make this once more.
Subsequent I moved on to the sunflowers that I’ve been reducing down. I used to be saving the seed heads, some for seeds for subsequent 12 months and a few for the birds. As I’ve a whole lot of sunflower heads it occurred to me that I might additionally eat the sunflower seeds. I consider that every one sorts of sunflowers have edible seeds they usually make wholesome snacks. So I roasted a batch together with some pumpkin seeds that got here within the contemporary pumpkin in final week’s Oddbox supply. (Does anybody else use Oddbox? I’ve subscribed for a 12 months now, we get a medium field each two weeks and I’m all the time impressed with the vary and high quality of the produce).
My fifth photograph is of one other venture. I’m utilizing my lavender flowers and seeds to make lavender baggage. We have now carpet and garments moths in the home and I not too long ago learnt that they keep away from lavender.
My ultimate photograph goes to the final of the tomatoes from the greenhouse. The crops had been going mouldy and had been coated in whitefly, so I’ve introduced them in to ripen on the windowsill.
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Comfortable gardening
Rosie
