Use fresh spring rhubarb and a few other ingredients to make this rhubarb wine recipe. Includes tips on equipment and the full winemaking process. Quite a few people think of rhubarb as strictly a springtime treat but if you grow it yourself you'll know that you can be pulling stalks of it far into the summer. Even so, it's a matter of time before you're tired of eating rhubarb crumbles. When this happens, you know it's time. Time to make sweet rhubarb wine. I only made a single batch of ... Read More about Rhubarb Wine Recipe and full Winemaking Instructions
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Relics of Ancient Gardening and Roman Cooking at the British Museum
A visit to the British Museum to learn about gardening and cooking artifacts from the first to fourth-century Roman-Britain Aside from gardening and making, one of my favorite topics is ancient history. Not the glimmering gold of ancient Egypt, or the art of the classical world, but the lives of ordinary people, our ancestors. Being of European descent, I’m especially interested in what happened here all those thousands of years ago, and how the West came to be what it is. Here on the Isle ... Read More about Relics of Ancient Gardening and Roman Cooking at the British Museum
DIY Raspberry Cane Garden Edging
Use pruned raspberry canes to create attractive woven garden edging. This easy project is great for the vegetable garden or for decorative borders. Every gardener who grows raspberries goes through the same winter ritual: taking out the old wood. Whether you have autumn or summer fruiting varieties you'll be left with a bundle of canes that generally gets burned or composted. It seems like such a waste, especially when you consider the other materials that we spend money on to bring into the ... Read More about DIY Raspberry Cane Garden Edging
Eco-Friendly Cold Process Soap Recipe + Instructions
Simple and natural cold process soap recipe. Uses four eco-friendly oils and includes easy to understand soap making instructions Today it's back to basics with a simple cold process soap recipe. The bars you make with it are very gentle on the skin, palm-oil free, and eco-friendly. I even share how to reuse a drinks carton to use as a mold. Everything about this recipe ensures that the end product is good for you and the planet. I know that a lot of people are hesitant to make cold process ... Read More about Eco-Friendly Cold Process Soap Recipe + Instructions
How to Clean up Strawberry Beds
Tips on how to clean up a strawberry bed. It's a great job for late winter and early spring and gets your plants back into fruitful production. Full DIY video included. Strawberry runners are a good thing for a couple of reasons. The most obvious is that these long tendrils that grow from strawberry plants create new plants. Wherever the runner touches the soil, roots will grow and a new strawberry plant will form. That means that once you have strawberries planted, you'll never have to buy new ... Read More about How to Clean up Strawberry Beds
