| Garden Cooking |
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| Written by Administrator | |
| Wednesday, 04 October 2006 | |
This weekend I made a few concoctions for the garden.
Garlic and Chilli SpraySomething was eating my seedlings so ...1 clove of garlic a lump of red chilli 250ml water woosh it up with a stab mixer (bamix) and filter through cheese cloth (or I guess a coffee filter would do as well) into a spray bottle. Add one drop of dishwashing liquid (its a surfactant which means the spray will spread across the leaves of the plants) and shake. Squirt on affected plants. Chook TonicThe chooks poo was looking a bit runny. Naturally good hygeine is the most important prevention of diahoerra. Change water daily and keep coop clean.Something starchy, like toast, chopped to about 1cm cubes. yoghurt 1 clove of garlic, crushed. Mix it all togethor and serve. The chooks go mad for this stuff and their poo is improving. Laundry Gel1 bar of velvet soap, grated.250g of washing soda (Sodium Carbonate DecaHydrate) Half fill a bucket (I use a 15l nappy bucket with a lid) with warm to hot water. Melt the grated soap in a few cups of water in a saucepan on the stove. Pour the soup mixure and then soda into the bucket and stir vigourously. When all is well mixed, fill the bucket to the almost the top. When it cools, it should form a curious gel. I use 200ml per load in my front loader so I get 75 washes from a batch. I've calculated (assuming washing soda is pure Na2Co3.10H2O and ignoring the sodium in the soap) that this corresponds to 0.54g of sodium per load. If you use greywater on your garden, salination is a risk. Consulting the Lanfax research, this stuff is one of the least salt detergents. |
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