- The Hanging Garden – Week 6
- Hanging Gardens – Week 1
Make your own Hanging Garden !! ❤️🌱🍅
Borage flowers
Why grow borage? Well…
Bees LOVE it for starters 🐝🐝🐝which is why it’s often called ‘Bee Bread’. It’s easy to grow, can reach 2 metres tall, you can make a healthy tea from the leaves and the blue flowers are beautiful and edible!!
*Gorgeous photo of borage flowers by Lise-Lotte Larsson
For more details see Gardening Know How
Your tea was brought to you courtesy of HerbClass ❤️
What’s the difference between a swede and a turnip??
Well, it depends where you come from and it is VERY confusing!!!
There are two distinctly different root vegetables called Brassica napus and Brassica rapa. Strictly speaking (and according to the RHS!) the rapa is an older variety (turnip) and the napus is a more recent cross between a cabbage and a turnip (Swedish turnip or swede).
Jamie Oliver’s Vegepedia has great ideas for cooking turnips and swedes
And plenty of articles are devoted to these two:
‘Are neeps swedes or turnips?’ The Guardian
‘Turnips: the unsung hero of the vegetable world’ The Guardian
‘Rutabaga vs. Turnip: How to Tell the Difference Between These Yummy Vegetables’ Pure Wow
‘The difference between turnips and rutabagas’ The Spruce Eats
Make a FREE Watering Bottle for a targeted, delicate stream that won’t drown your seedlings 🌱💦🌸
#lockdown took us by surprise 😳and our little plantlets and seeds need gentle watering.
We didn’t have time to buy a little watering can from B&Q….
So, we’ve made one!
Everlasting Basil
Turn one supermarket basil plant…
…into all these!
Then make yourself a delicious Stoots Basil Smash
For more information on growing basil visit the RHS
Stoots Basil Smash
The Basil Smash is quite a famous cocktail (I didn’t make it up!)
And apparently the basil in your drink could also be giving you many, many additional benefits….
Leeks are SUCH fun to plant!
Just get yourself a dibber…
And a leek-ling..
Taken from British Leeks
Recycle the cardboard tube in a roll of foil or cling film to make these cute little pots for your chilli plants!
You need some Slug Sludge!!
Organic and easy to make from kitchen waste.