the daydream fund challenge thread

Rummer

I am so excited, just made my first food from the garden this year, rhubarb muffins! It really is a motivator when you taste your own grown produce and it is delicious. Here is to more!

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

I am so excited, just made my first food from the garden this year, rhubarb muffins! It really is a motivator when you taste your own grown produce and it is delicious. Here is to more!

Well done, i wish w had rhubarb to pick! Next year, next year. This weekend we had dandelion salad and there are certainly plenty f nettles for soup...but er....not quite the same is it!:rotfl:

Rummer

I think that is very impressive! I need to start eating more of the foods naturally around me, is it just the smallest leaves of dandelion leaves you can eat and can you eat the middle of the leaves? We have a pile of nettles at the bottom of the garden that I was planning on ripping out however I am going to let them grow and I will use them as plant food and maybe, if I am brave enough, in some cooking.

choille

Nettles make a good Spring detox tea. Just use the tips before they seed - don't dry them as that makes them bitter, bang a load in a teapot scald leave to infuse for 5 minutes & serve with lemon. Filled with iron & supposed to detox the liver.

They can become a nusiance as they sort of run amok but they are handy & butterflies love them too.

lostinrates

Rummer wrote: »

I think that is very impressive! I need to start eating more of the foods naturally around me, is it just the smallest leaves of dandelion leaves you can eat and can you eat the middle of the leaves? We have a pile of nettles at the bottom of the garden that I was planning on ripping out however I am going to let them grow and I will use them as plant food and maybe, if I am brave enough, in some cooking.

Use the nettles wile young is y advice. Its a ''healthy tasting'' soup. Potato gives it a bit of guts, and while I think it tastes better with some mushrooms in you lose the colour, which is one of the best things about it! Pick it and wash it with gloves on, then bung it in the pan and use a wooden spoon, one the stock/water goes in and its cooked there is no sting.

Dandelion, I go for the young leaves....because there is always a choice of lots of plants! You can eat older leaves though. The are a bot of a diuretic, so not sure why I have swollen ankles still. I did need a piddle at five this morning though:o

Rummer

We have a lot of small animals that usually get the dandelion leaves but I think they will have to share from now on :rotfl:

I can see the neighbours faces now when they see me collecting weeds to eat :rotfl:

choille

You can blanche dandelion leaves with an upturned plant pot - supposed to make them sweeter? I've never done it........

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

You can blanche dandelion leaves with an upturned plant pot - supposed to make them sweeter? I've never done it........

Me neither, but I'll try it....I'll stick a pot over ne today and report back




These violets of mine, when can I move them? I want to save them from the lawn and put them in safer lawns and borders.

alfie_1

hi all,
well i have just managed to get dressed !! my back/hip is chronic today...typical when im driving for hours tonite but cant cancel .... i kept waking my son in the night with my "yelps" as i tried to get comfortable. im sooooooooo cross ! i hate being out of action... i will just have to grit my teeth and rest up when i get back. im on my 3rd cup of tea and have had some pain killers so fingers crossed.. i can see me and wagon being rescued by AA [if they count ME breaking down as opposed to the truck !!??}

its a beautifull sunny day here and im going out in the garden for a bit of light exercise to get myself going, hope you all have a good day.

alfie_1

lostinrates wrote: »

Me neither, but I'll try it....I'll stick a pot over ne today and report back




These violets of mine, when can I move them? I want to save them from the lawn and put them in safer lawns and borders.

my gran always had lots of violets and she used to spred them about by digging VERY LARGE areas of soil around them sos not to disturb the roots. like a house brick and then replant. im not sure when tho??........davesnave????? hehehe