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Ginger Beer

26 Thursday Jun 2014

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Recipes

≈ 10 Comments

Tags

ginger, Ginger beer, Lemon, recipe, sugar, water, yeast


Ginger and sugar in boiling water

Ginger and sugar in boiling water

Lemon Slices

Lemon Slices

Yeast starting to activate

Yeast starting to activate

Mixture maturing

Mixture maturing

 

Making your own home made Ginger Beer is really easy.

Ingredients : 

  • 4,5 l water
  • 28 g whole ginger
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 10 g active dry yeast
  • 1 lemon

Method : 

  • Boil the water, bruise the ginger and add to hot water with the sugar. Stir until the sugar has dissolved.
  • Pour into an enamel jug or pail and allow to cool until lukewarm.
  • Combine the active dry yeast with 1 teaspoon sugar and add 1 cup luke-warm water. Put aside in a warm place for 5 to 10 minutes or until it starts to ferment. Add to the sugar-water
  • Cut the lemon into thin slices and add.
  • Allow to stand for 24  hours. Strain through a damp cloth.
  • Pour into bottle and cork tightly. It will be ready for use in 1 – 2 days.

 

Using Epsom salts in the garden

05 Wednesday Feb 2014

Posted by Brigid Jackson in ecology, gardening tips

≈ 1 Comment

Tags

England, Epsom, Epsom Salt, epsom salts, Flowers, food, gardening, green tips, Magnesium, Magnesium sulfate, natural emollient, plant, plants, Soil, water


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Are the leaves on your plants turning yellow ? Do you want more fruit and flowers?

These problems may be the result of a lack of magnesium in your soil, which prohibits roots from absorbing much-needed nutrients. Give your foliage and flowers a boost by using Epsom salt. Studies show that magnesium and sulfur, two major components of Epsom salt, may help plants grow greener with higher yields and more blooms.

This natural mineral, discovered in the well water of Epsom, England, has been used for hundreds of years, not only to fertilize plants but to treat a range of human and animal ailments. When magnesium sulfate is absorbed through the skin, such as in a bath, it draws toxins from the body, sedates the nervous system, reduces swelling, relaxes muscles, is a natural emollient, exfoliater, and much more.

Lawns: Apply three pounds for every 1,250 square feet with a spreader or dilute in water and apply with a sprayer.

Houseplants: Use two tablespoons per gallon of water; feed plants monthly.

Tomatoes and Peppers: Use one tablespoon per foot of plant height per plant; apply every two weeks to keep the leaves from yellowing.

Roses: Use one tablespoon per foot of plant height per plant; apply every two weeks. Also scratch 1/2 cup into soil at base to encourage flowering canes and healthy new basal cane growth. Soak unplanted bushes in one cup of Epsom Salt per gallon of water to help roots recover. Add one tablespoon of Epsom Salt to each hole at planting time.

Shrubs (evergreens, azaleas, rhododendron): Use one tablespoon per nine square feet. Apply over root zone every 2-4 weeks.

Trees: Apply two tablespoons per nine square feet. Apply over the root zone 3 times annually.

Garden Startup: Sprinkle one cup per 100 square feet. Mix into soil before planting.

Flowering plants: Put one tablespoon of Epsom Salt into one gallon of water. This mixture helps to force blooms.

Backyarddiva

Home made bird water feeder #nature #recycle

27 Monday Jan 2014

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Birds, Garden Creatures, Green tips, Recycle, Upcycle

≈ 5 Comments

Tags

750ml bottle, birds, copper elbow, environment, food, garden, nature, orange, recycle, red food coloring, sugar solution, sun birds, sweet sugar solution, water, water feeder, wire coat hanger


obs at feeder

These little Orange Breasted Sun-birds wait eagerly every morning for me to fill up the bottle with a very sweet sugar solution, colored with a little red food coloring.

Such a beautiful sight in any garden!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange-breasted_Sunbird

To make the water feeder you will need :

an empty 750 ml bottle (preferably not round),wire coat hanger, a twig for a perch, epoxy and a copper elbow.

Fukushima – Beyond Urgent

15 Friday Nov 2013

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Fukushima

≈ 7 Comments

Tags

environment, food, Fukushima, nuclear disaster, radiation, water


Marvelous Magnesium – Epsom Salts

13 Wednesday Nov 2013

Posted by Brigid Jackson in ecology, gardening tips

≈ 6 Comments

Tags

England, Epsom, Epsom Salt, Magnesium, Magnesium sulfate, plant, Soil, water


epsom_salts-300x225

Are the leaves on your plants turning yellow ? Do you want more fruit and flowers?

These problems may be the result of a lack of magnesium in your soil, which prohibits roots from absorbing much-needed nutrients. Give your foliage and flowers a boost by using Epsom salt. Studies show that magnesium and sulfur, two major components of Epsom salt, may help plants grow greener with higher yields and more blooms.

This natural mineral, discovered in the well water of Epsom, England, has been used for hundreds of years, not only to fertilize plants but to treat a range of human and animal ailments. When magnesium sulfate is absorbed through the skin, such as in a bath, it draws toxins from the body, sedates the nervous system, reduces swelling, relaxes muscles, is a natural emollient, exfoliater, and much more.

Lawns: Apply three pounds for every 1,250 square feet with a spreader or dilute in water and apply with a sprayer.

Houseplants: Use two tablespoons per gallon of water; feed plants monthly.

Tomatoes and Peppers: Use one tablespoon per foot of plant height per plant; apply every two weeks to keep the leaves from yellowing.

Roses: Use one tablespoon per foot of plant height per plant; apply every two weeks. Also scratch 1/2 cup into soil at base to encourage flowering canes and healthy new basal cane growth. Soak unplanted bushes in one cup of Epsom Salt per gallon of water to help roots recover. Add one tablespoon of Epsom Salt to each hole at planting time.

Shrubs (evergreens, azaleas, rhododendron): Use one tablespoon per nine square feet. Apply over root zone every 2-4 weeks.

Trees: Apply two tablespoons per nine square feet. Apply over the root zone 3 times annually.

Garden Startup: Sprinkle one cup per 100 square feet. Mix into soil before planting.

Flowering plants: Put one tablespoon of Epsom Salt into one gallon of water. This mixture helps to force blooms.

Backyarddiva

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A state of Emergency

29 Thursday Aug 2013

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Fukushima

≈ 6 Comments

Tags

american food supply, fruits and veggies, Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, nuclear disaster, Radioactive decay, radioactive water, State of emergency, Tokyo Electric Power Company, water


Japan’s nuclear watchdog has now declared the leak of radioactive water from Fukushima a “state of emergency.” Each day, 300 tons of radioactive water seeps into the ocean, and it’s now clear that TEPCO has engage in a two-and-a-half-year cover-up of immense magnitude.

Fukushima now in state of emergency, leaking 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean daily

nuclear fallout

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Using Epsom salts in the garden

23 Saturday Feb 2013

Posted by Brigid Jackson in ecology, gardening tips

≈ 6 Comments

Tags

England, Epsom, Epsom Salt, epsom salts, Flowers, food, gardening, green tips, Magnesium, Magnesium sulfate, natural emollient, plant, plants, Soil, water


epsom_salts-300x225

Are the leaves on your plants turning yellow ? Do you want more fruit and flowers?

These problems may be the result of a lack of magnesium in your soil, which prohibits roots from absorbing much-needed nutrients. Give your foliage and flowers a boost by using Epsom salt. Studies show that magnesium and sulfur, two major components of Epsom salt, may help plants grow greener with higher yields and more blooms.

This natural mineral, discovered in the well water of Epsom, England, has been used for hundreds of years, not only to fertilize plants but to treat a range of human and animal ailments. When magnesium sulfate is absorbed through the skin, such as in a bath, it draws toxins from the body, sedates the nervous system, reduces swelling, relaxes muscles, is a natural emollient, exfoliater, and much more.

Lawns: Apply three pounds for every 1,250 square feet with a spreader or dilute in water and apply with a sprayer.

Houseplants: Use two tablespoons per gallon of water; feed plants monthly.

Tomatoes and Peppers: Use one tablespoon per foot of plant height per plant; apply every two weeks to keep the leaves from yellowing.

Roses: Use one tablespoon per foot of plant height per plant; apply every two weeks. Also scratch 1/2 cup into soil at base to encourage flowering canes and healthy new basal cane growth. Soak unplanted bushes in one cup of Epsom Salt per gallon of water to help roots recover. Add one tablespoon of Epsom Salt to each hole at planting time.

Shrubs (evergreens, azaleas, rhododendron): Use one tablespoon per nine square feet. Apply over root zone every 2-4 weeks.

Trees: Apply two tablespoons per nine square feet. Apply over the root zone 3 times annually.

Garden Startup: Sprinkle one cup per 100 square feet. Mix into soil before planting.

Flowering plants: Put one tablespoon of Epsom Salt into one gallon of water. This mixture helps to force blooms.

Backyarddiva

 

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Photosynthesis

23 Saturday Feb 2013

Tags

food, oxygen, photosynthesis, plants, sugar, sun, water


photosynthesis

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Posted by Brigid Jackson | Filed under ecology, gardening tips

≈ 1 Comment

Home made bird water feeder #nature #recycle

26 Saturday Jan 2013

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Birds, Garden Creatures, Green tips, Recycle, Upcycle

≈ 9 Comments

Tags

750ml bottle, birds, copper elbow, environment, food, garden, nature, recycle, sugar solution, sun birds, water, water feeder, wire coat hanger


obs at feeder

These little Orange Breasted Sun-birds wait eagerly every morning for me to fill up the bottle with a very sweet sugar solution, colored with a little red food coloring.

Such a beautiful sight in any garden!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange-breasted_Sunbird

To make the water feeder you will need :

an empty 750ml bottle (preferably not round),wire coat hanger, a twig for a perch, epoxy and a copper elbow.

 

 

 

 

Simple drip irrigation

24 Thursday Jan 2013

Posted by Brigid Jackson in Green tips, Growing, Irrigation

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

drip irrigation system, food, gardening, home grown, irrigation, organic, plants, water


drip irrigation
Efficient, cheap, and simple drip Irrigation system.

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