Category: growing
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Reuse, Recover: Egg Shells
As you know or are beginning to suspect, I am nuts about minimising my kitchen waste. I am always looking to reuse or recover anything I can. Google is a great help in this but once you get in the mindset of doing it and thinking outside the box, you will start coming up with…
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Onion Brown
Sorry I haven’t written anything here yet. Please bear with me or even send me a few words on the subject. I especially would love any tips and tricks you want to share 馃檪 Enjoy, PK Links: see more brown onion posts here see more onion posts here go to all ingredients
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Chili Pepper: Jalape帽o
This is the chili I automatically think of whenever some says, well, ‘chili’. It is middle of the road when it comes to heat and is very flavoursome. You can do so much with it from using it raw, pickled, cooked and dried. If you prefer flavour over the heat factor, take the seeds out…
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Strawberry (Fragaria ananassa)
I thought this plant was hard to grow. I could not be more wrong :). Well sort of…… easy to grow but very tempting to humans, birds and insects alike. Wikipeida writes: ‘The first garden strawberry was grown in Brittany, France during the late 18th century.[3] Prior to this, wild strawberries and cultivated selections from…
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Alfalfa Sprouts
I love growing these little sprouts and use them in salads whenever I can. They are popular everywhere but especially favoured in certain regions of India. The adult plants have very attractive foliage and the flowers attract those most welcome of visitors, bees. When planted for animal feed it tends to be known as as…
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Mung Bean Sprouts
Wikipedia writes ‘also known as the moong bean, green gram, or mung, is a plant species in the legume family. The mung bean is mainly cultivated in India, China, and Southeast Asia. It is used as an ingredient in both savoury and sweet dishes’. Here are the seeds and as you can see I am…
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Broad Bean (Fava Bean)
This tall sturdy flowering annual in the bean family produces a multitude of long pods with 8 large beans (the thick walled pods are unpalatable raw) and edible leaves perfect for salads. The plant has sturdy stems and will grow to almost 6 foot but it is not a climber. Taste/Aroma: I love the buttery…
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Broad Bean (Fava Bean): Grow and Eat
This tall sturdy flowering annual in the bean family produces a multitude of long pods with 8 large beans (the thick walled pods are unpalatable raw) and edible leaves perfect for salads. The plant has sturdy stems and will grow to almost 6 foot but it is not a climber. Taste/Aroma: I love the buttery…
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Lemongrass
I first learnt about this flavoursome member of the grass family when I started cooking the Thai classic soup, Tom Yum Goong. I have been growing it ever since for use in sauces, soups, salads and fish cakes. The plant itself looks and smells amazing and is a natural mosquito repellent to boot :). Taste/Aroma:…
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Reuse, Recover: PK’s Bone Meal
I want to reuse and recover as much as I can in my kitchen and gardening activities. So it is only natural that I wondered what I could do with the bones left over after cooking. Some of them go into my worm farms but as my young family is eating more and more meat…
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