Read more about why I am participating in Sharon's Independence Days Challenge, here.
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Plant something:
* More potatoes (in bags, as an experiment), sprouting onions x 5.
Harvest something:
* Snow peas, the last of the starfruit (meep), mushrooms, red mustard, dill, rocket, thyme, parsley, chives, oregano, mint, cress.
Preserve something:
* Ginger and lemon marmalade, dried ginger in the dehydrator (to be powdered later), lemon juice, lemon cordial, rocket (arugula) and walnut pesto.
Waste not /Reduce waste:
* Made a pencil & notebook roll for my daughter's birthday & started on her birthday crown and bunting;
* Planted out the onions which started sprouting in my pantry;
* Made muesli, hummus and dishwasher detergent;
* Started embroidering a draw-string calico bag to store my mushrooms in in the fridge, instead of brown paper bags which only last as few weeks.
Want Not/ Preparation:
* Bought up next year's good quality winter clothes for my eldest daughter at the end of winter sales (the rest will be second hand);
* Found more large (10L) storage containers;
* Sorted through my seeds to check expiry dates and what can be planted or sowed this month (according to the Aussie Gardenate website).
Eat the Food:
* Lots of rocket (arugula) pesto, fresh herbs & lemon cordial.
* Started a batch of ginger "shrub". Sarah commented about her discovery of "shrub" - or vinegar cordials - on one of Sharon's last IDC updates. Intrigued, I Googled them and discovered a terrific recipe for ginger shrub. It's still sitting and waiting for me today, but I'll report back on it next week.
Building Community
* Nil, if you don't count blogging.
Learned a New Skill
* Making "shrubs" or vinegar cordials.
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3 comments:
Hi Julie. You have been busy this week :-) Good luck with your potatoe experiment. I hope you have more luck against the 28 spotted ladybugs. They were a huge problem here last summer eating the potatoe leaves and the cape gooseberries. Grrr!
Have you posted your recipe for Ginger and Lemon Marmalade before? I had a scoot around your blog but couldn't find it. I loooove ginger and happen to have a few lemons in my pantry and would love to give it a try.
You are such an inspiration. Thank you
Hi Linda,
Argh, yes the 28-spotted ladybirds have decimated my potatoes the last two years :-( The recipe I used for my marmamlade is the Microwave Lemon Marmalade - I just added a 2" chunk of grated ginger to it. It turned out very nice, but it could be stronger if you really like ginger, so add some more :-)
Cheers, Julie
Thanks Julie. I will give it a go :-) Good Luck with the Birthday cake. I have just remembered a cake train with carriages I made for my son...took it to kindy in the back seat of the car and all the carriages slid off in the sun LOL ah those memories :-)
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