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7 Jun 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Emerald Witch
Growing Our Own part 8 Everything is looking great, we had a lot of rain and sun so there was a lot of growth. Our peas have flowered so I think we should have peas soon. The peas grew loads, they've grown so high already. This is the...
3 Jun 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Emerald Witch
Seedlings So as I predicted half of my seedlings didn't make it, I overwatered them and they got a white fluffy fungus, I was hoping I caught it quick enough but I mustn't have. I thought the spinach was sprouting okay but I think it's gone...
31 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Emerald Witch
Making Homemade Cloches Buying cloches can be very expensive but they are super easy to make them yourself. I wanted to use a hose cut to size but I wasn't able to go to the city to buy a cheap one so for this time I bought 6 pipe insulatio...
30 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Emerald Witch
Powdered Egg Shells We eat a lot of eggs in this house so I started collecting them, after about a week collecting them I washed them and dried them. I ended up putting them in my dehydrator and they dried up great really quickly. I pulled...
29 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Emerald Witch
Growing Our Own Part 7 Our beautiful peas, it's cool the way the tendrils coil and grip the string. I can't wait until they are fully grown and proper climbing up and of course producing peas. I can't wait to see what my son thinks, he loves pea...
28 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Emerald Witch
Growing Our Own Part 6 Our peas are going strong, a bit pale but that could be the variety we planted, they feel really strong, a lot better than two weeks ago. The onions are growing great, they feel really strong and look healthy, you...
25 May 2021 5 minute read 0 comments clubby
Smoked Paprika is a rich, red spice made from Pimenton or Paprikash peppers and smoked over oak to give it that wonderous flavor. My favorite pepper to grow for this is the Hungarian Paprikash as it is a mild, sweet peppe...
25 May 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Emerald Witch
Using Water From Cooking This time to make the fertiliser I collected the water from making baby food, I have a steamer that collects water to use in the baby food to make it nice and wet and it's full of extra goodness. I always have water left o...
22 May 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Emerald Witch
Weeding I finally hacked into the weeds. I actually enjoyed the weeding and once you start and really look closely most of the weeds are pretty obvious, there was only one thing I was unsure about so I left it and hopefully next week I'll ha...
21 May 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Emerald Witch
Covering Plants In Seaweed We got much more seaweed this week, it was also more slimier and nastier then the last time. We put seaweed around our new corn plants, it will be interesting to see them next week and see how they've grown. ...
