Dirty Dozen 2016 – Which Fruit and Vegetables are the Most Toxic?
Which vegetables you shound never buy (and grow your own)!
Nettle Quiche, Variation #1
Need an extra portion of vitamins and minerals? Cook nettles for dinner! What I tried was a nettle quiche (probably not really a quiche). That’s what I did: Step one: Harvest about half a square meter of nettles, mine were about 30 cm high, which is pretty amazing as I chopped them to the ground … Read more Nettle Quiche, Variation #1
Pumpkin Harvest season – Storing and Curing
This year I was harvesting half of the pumpkin patch already. It was so dry that the stalks were dry and the plants died prematurely. With the dry weather, I left them outside on the ground for some days. Usually, this is later in the year and I would wait until the first frost threatens. … Read more Pumpkin Harvest season – Storing and Curing
A Summer of Beans
Grow more climbing beans!
Mock strawberry
The weedy strawberry is not the alpine strawberry!
Strawberries – High up in the list of the ‘Dirty Dozens’
Unhealthy strawberries:
Comfrey panacea or deadly poison?
Comfrey a highly esteemed herb Some think comfrey is a panacea useful to heal wounds, broken bones against varicose veins, cough, cancer, high blood pressure to name a few. Comfrey is a herb which was held in high esteem throughout history by ancient and modern herbalists alike: Dioscorides, Paracelsus, the Australian herbalist like Isabelle Shipard … Read more Comfrey panacea or deadly poison?
Glorious Goldenrod
How uplifting are the yellow flowers of goldenrod full of bees foraging for nectar! No wonder it is used against depression and of course for kidney and bladder complaints. I grow two species of goldenrods. One which I could not 100% identify, but it is probably solidago virgaurea, the other one is the Canadian goldenrod, … Read more Glorious Goldenrod
Grow your own incense: 3 Common Kitchen Herbs and 4 other easy herbs
Why buy incense? Make your own!