These stomata also act as a transport system for nutrients. When you spray your compost tea on the plants, the bacteria in the tea acts as a glue and hold onto nutrients for the plant. They will also fill in infected spots on the plant, which helps reduce diseases and keeps your plant ...
rice, fresh weeds and tea bags, brown materials that add carbon, such as twigs, wood chips and leaves, invertebrates that help break down the materials in the compost apart from fungi and bacteria, such as millipedes, earthworms, slugs and mites, and information on worm bin, or vermicompost...
Just stockpile these in the freezer until you have enough for the recipe. Be sure to use organically grown fruit if you are using the peels because the chemicals and pesticides will transfer into the pectin otherwise. "The homemade apple pectin was easy to prepare and produced a congealed ...
Pumpkins need fertile, aerated soil that is 70°-90° for proper germination. Add compost or well rotted manure to the soil. Plant semi-bush varieties one inch deep with 6-8 seeds per hill, based on the assumption that all will not germinate (if using transplants use 3-4 plants.) If...
Place elderflowers and rose petals in a 2 quart, heat proof bowl. Pour 4 cups of boiling water over them and cover. Let steep for 1 hour, covered. Strain the tea. Stir the honey into the warm tea. Set aside. Meanwhile, remove the skin and pits from peaches and chop them into 1/...
Rebrew the bags for watering your house plants or garden. The tea water protects from fungal infections and adds extra nutrients back into the soil. Sprinkle the tea leaves on the base of your plants to fertile soil and repel pests like spiders and ants. Add them to your compost pile. Ref...
Bone broth takes the upmost claim to flavor and nutrition fame with the inclusion of bones like stock, but it gets cooked for a much longer period of time — typically 24 hours at the least (and often significantly longer). There’s nothing like homemade chicken bone broth, but if you ...
Cook for 45 minutes. Just out of the oven, note the blue colour from the blue corn flour. And voila, two veggies saved from compost, three jars empty and ready to be packed, and a nice hearty snack to get me through the afternoon. I suspect this bread will toast up nicely and make...
These two things come from the same plant. The flower is often used as a flavoring agent, whereas elderberry needs to be cooked to be consumed. Traditionally, elderberry has been taken as asyrupfor medicinal use. Ingredients Nutrition Facts(per serving) ...
Bone broth can be very simply consumed by sipping from a mug like tea. I usually suggest doing so 1-3 times per day for its therapeutic benefits. Beyond that, use your beautiful broth as the base for soups and sauces; to cook rice or quinoa or in any recipe that calls for stock. Op...