This week I shared a tip about not wasting your valuable lettuce thinnings.
Infact, we’ve been eating them all week at Chez Green and calling it ’salad’!
Today, my beetroot leaves are looking healthy and strong and I wanted to remind you that you can eat these too!
Tiny ones can be eaten raw in salads; they are More…
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Tiny tip, from mrs Green’s garden – beetroot leaves
Saturday, May 23rd, 2009Tiny tip, from mrs Green’s garden
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009You know I can’t stand food waste over at Chez Green, so here’s a tiny tip for everyone having a go at growing their own this year.
When it comes to thinning your lettuces (oh yes you must; I remember NOT wanting to do this the first time I grew things, but go and be brutal so that you More…
6 great uses for nettles
Monday, May 18th, 2009Last week, Clara bought nettle week to our attention.
My neighbour has proudly shown me all her nettles that are dying after she sprayed them with roundup.
So over the weekend, I told DD about nettle week and we brainstormed ways in which we knew nettles to be beneficial for us.
Most people prefer to get rid of their More…
Mrs Green’s garden, part 2
Monday, May 18th, 2009I cannot believe the changes in our garden since I last wrote.
It was getting like a desert in our garden. 4 empty water butts and hard-baked soil. All that was growing were the weeds, which I was meticulously pulling up every day.
Last week, as I was laid flat on my back with a bad foot it started More…
Seed saving
Monday, May 18th, 2009I was thinking about the whole ’self sufficiency’ thing the other day.
I’ve always felt that I’m doing some self sufficiency if I grow something. But then I figured it wasn’t that self sufficient if I needed to buy seeds.
I’ve decided this year to have a go at seed saving and would love to hear your thoughts and More…
My week – suggestions please!
Thursday, May 14th, 2009So here’s my week –
Monday, woke up with a sore throat and felt under the weather.
Decided to actually listen to my body for once and take the day off. Yay for me – how many of us actually respect ourselves enough to do that?
Desperately craved the healing of water so took off to my More…
Ecover refills
Monday, May 11th, 2009Annahelm wrote a great post about reusing bottles over in this post.
In the comments we talked about Ecover refills. For anyone who doesn’t know about it, there might be a refill station near you!
Type your postcode into the locator and see if you could keep some plastic from the landfill by refilling your Ecover bottles.
Not More…
Crop Swappers
Monday, May 11th, 2009Got a glut?
In the ‘old days’ we would have shared it with our neighbours. Now what do we do? Some of us still share, but for many the idea of swapping and bartering our juicy treasures with people in our street is an old fashioned, outworn idea.
Well thank goodness for Sophie Greenyer who is More…
Seed saving
Thursday, May 7th, 2009I was having a ponder whilst leaning on my trusty fork the other day about the whole self sufficient malarkey.
I’ve been thinking that I am dipping a toe into self sufficiency because I’m growing my own food.
THEN I had a light bulb moment when I was opening a packet of seed (foil backed paper anyone) More…
Gardening at Chez Green
Thursday, May 7th, 2009We’re about three weeks in to our sowing season here at Chez Green (last minute, me!). I’ve loved reading about people’s updates in the garden, so here’s mine!
In one bed we have nicola potatoes – some of them are coming up already
In the other, little Miss Green has planted four potatoes of her own – More…
