VIDEO TOUR: Our Winter Vegetables + Hydroponics
This is an early December tour of my vegetable growing beds. Winter vegies such as kohlrabi, onions, fennel and snow peas are getting established. Some of the summer vegetables are still going strong, including sweet potatoes, eggplants, peanuts and ground cherries. We get a glimpse of my hydroponic lettuce too! You can read about our […]
Our Winter Vegetable Garden Plan
Sukkos is behind us and that means it’s time to get serious about winter vegetable planting. I just ordered a bunch of seeds from my favorite seed store. Now I’m mapping out my growing beds. Here are some considerations in my planning: two of my beds get very little sun in the winter. Really most […]
Make liquid fertilizer at home for $0
Most people buy fertilizer at the garden store but you can make it yourself, using Stinging Nettle, a plant that grows wild everywhere in Israel at this time of year. “Nettle tea” gives your plants nitrogen, chlorophyll, magnesium, sulfur, iron, potassium, copper, zinc and calcium. Nettle Tea Fertilizer Recipe Step 1: Find some Stinging Nettle. […]
The absolute easiest way to preserve your lemon harvest
Every year in this season, life gives us lemons But how can we preserve the bounty so we can freshly squeeze them all year long? By Pesach the season will fade! Here’s the simplest, most effective way: Just pick ’em and stick them in the freezer whole. When they defrost, they are a bit mushy […]