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GREEN SMOOTHIE
I'm not sure why I have resisted green smoothies for so long. One reason perhaps is because I don't have a proper blender, let alone one of those high powered jobs that people who make green smoothies always recommend. I've always found my stick blender sufficient for making my favourite yoghurt smoothie. Another thing I resist is buying greens. I want them freshly picked from the garden and still buzzing with vitality. Last week, I gave the green smoothie a go with my old faithful stick blender and it worked well enough. Every winter I am recommended by my wonderful osteopath to consume fresh, young raw greens. My gut goes into stagnation around this time of year and needs chlorophyll-rich living food. Well I came home from an osteopathic session last week and wandered around the garden picking a bit of this and a bit of that, stick blended it up with a little water and added some fresh fruit and a little honey. I am hooked now, and my gut has responded beautifully. Gone is the uncomfortable bloating and thankfully the gas. Kale is recommended as a major player in green smoothies, but I wanted to use only what was growing in the garden. This was to incorporate some of the edible weeds that I wax lyrical about on my blog. For my first smoothie, I picked a few leaves each of cos lettuce, silverbeet, kale, NZ spinach, parsley, dandelion, nasturtium, clover, puha and sorrel. The list is endless, you could add chickweed, coriander (cilantro), rocket, land cress, mizuna, any of the rocket mixes etc etc, pretty much whatever you have on hand. As always make sure you have a thorough knowledge of any weeds you use to ensure they are safe for consumption. For the here's how read the full post.
Our accidental community
This post was originally published on Women of Green
Gardening terminology explained
When I first started gardening in earnest, I took it for granted that I knew the exact meanings of the words gardeners use. Now I wish I had taken the time to understand the lingo. It would have made some things easier and maybe saved me some time and money. For example, soil, compost and humus.....I just assumed they were all pretty much the same substance, but as it turns out, they aren't.
BLACK WALNUT or Juglans Nigra
I've planted two walnut trees over the years here in our gardens and neither of them have survived. People always tell me 'but they grow like weeds!' Yeah right, not for me they don't. For many years whenever I took a trip down South I would see these beautifully lush trees growing along the banks of the mighty Waikato River. They looked so exotic and I used to try and figure out what species they were. One day the penny dropped and I recognised them as thriving walnut trees. Then I understood why they hadn't been happy, here, in my garden. Walnuts naturally choose fertile, moist, lime rich locations. I have read that European settlers coming to the eastern parts of the USA would often choose to build their homes near a stand of walnut trees. They understood the best place to plant a garden. All that goodness seems to be absorbed by this stately and medicine rich tree. It has many gifts to share; nutrient dense food, exceptional medicine and the finest timber. Read the full post for all the details.
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