Monday 15 October 2012
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With power suppliers putting up their prices, now is not a bad time to be thinking about further ways to reduce energy usage. It recently struck me that one area I could experiment with is how I bake my bread. … Continue reading
Saturday 2 June 2012
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The handle on our watering can snapped again this morning. It is a fairly old plastic model and I think the plastic is becoming brittle with age. I repaired it last year with some Sugru and reinforcing rods but this … Continue reading
Saturday 23 July 2011
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After yesterday’s experimental cooking (Goat’s Beard root), I thought I’d better post today even if only briefly, to you let you know that I’m still alive. The root was a bit woody but had promise; I’ve planted out the seedlings … Continue reading
Friday 22 July 2011
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“What is that?” I (rhetorically) hear you ask? It is the root of Tragopogon pratensis, or Goat‘s Beard, which I dug up in the garden today. Originally I thought it was some kind of ornamental grass that had slipped into … Continue reading
Sunday 10 July 2011
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What is this? A healthy, mature radish. I have only ever thought of radishes as a crop grown for a small, edible, bulbous root but I left one of the plants in this bed to go to see. It just … Continue reading
Monday 4 July 2011
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Do you see the different colours in this row of tree spinach (Chenopodium giganteum)? Not the magenta highlights near the stem tip of each plant but the range of greens, from the dark leaves on the left through to the … Continue reading
Tuesday 28 June 2011
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Aha! While tidying a pile of books, I found a quote I had been wanting to share after discovering a snowstorm of degrading plastic bag in my desk drawer earlier in the month: “Biodegradable plastic can be a well-intentioned nightmare, … Continue reading