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Category: ‘Gardens & Produce’
Gardening
Today, with the help of Lauren (7) and Emily (4) we’ve been:
digging horseradish out of one of the raised beds, where it had taken over
digging up and potting rooted goji berries
making a new raised bed around a fig tree
picking strawberries, capers, and tomatoes
Lots to do at the moment, here’s a great calendar from www.quinta-cavaleira.blogspot.com
Grape Juice / Sumo de Uva
1: Set big pans of water on to boil, ready to sterilise the bottles.
2. Pick grapes (fogot to take photo of this, doh!).
3. Wash feet & tread grapes.
4. Put buckets of squished grapes into press (we pressed white (green) grapes first).
5. Collect juice (this is the juice from the red grapes)!
Don’t forget to taste it!
6. [...]
Bottled Tomatoes / Tomates Engarrafados
We been eating all the veg from the garden – cooking for up to 15 people some nights.
Fomos comer todos os legumes da horta – cozinhar para até 15 pessoas em algumas noites.
Today, Serena and Pandora (yes, more wwoofers!) are bottling a huge basket of tomatoes that I picked from the garden.
Hoje, Serena e [...]
Horse Manure and Vine Posts
We’ve been pushing wheelbarrows of horse manure up the hill, to fill the raised beds, during the cool mornings.
Fomos empurrando carros de estrume de cavalo até a colina, para preencher a camas do jardim, durante a manhã fria.
And banging some posts into the ground for the vines.
E batendo em alguns postes dentro o terreno para [...]
What Will I do With all Those Courgettes?
It’s that time of year again. More courgettes than you know what to do with! I’m in the UK at the moment but here’s a handy book for our quinta-sitters – you’ll find it on the kitchen bookshelf! Everyone else, if you haven’t got a copy, can find it on amazon via the [...]
Strawberries & Blackcurrants
Morangos & Groselhas
Cherry Pickers
Two big baskets full of cherries from one tree!
Duas cestas grandes completamente das cerejas de uma árvore!
Naked Chefs
The grandchildren making strawberry and kiwi juice.
As netas fazem o sumo de morango e kiwi.
Strawberries / Morangos
A strawberry is a superstar when it comes to anti-oxidant power, says Dr. Barry Sears in his book The Top 100 Zone Foods: The Zone Food Science Ranking System.
In addition, 1 cup of strawberries gives you a whopping 140 percent of your recommended daily allowance of vitamin C. Strawberries are also packed with flavonoids, two [...]
