Showing posts with label Blackberries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blackberries. Show all posts

Tuesday, 15 June 2021

Blackberries and Thelma & Louise

 

Blackberries are beginning to flower


Preparing to feed the masses, well us anyway...

As of today British Columbia is in Phase 2 of their reopening plan. This means:

            Outdoor gathering of up to 50 people
            Indoor gathering of up to 50 people who must be seated
            Province-wide travel
            Indoor and Outdoor dining up to 6 people - no bubble restrictions
            Small in-person meetings allowed
            Indoor and Outdoor high-intensity exercise
            Outdoor spectators of up to 50 people, no indoor spectators

BUT..... July 1st.... Predicted Phase 3

           Allows for Canada-wide travel


Tuesday, 23 March 2021

Garden fixed. Medicinals

Back in the garden to fix the ground cover we went.....

A pigeon stopped by to check it out

He was thoroughly unimpressed that he couldn't eat through it.

Robbie in all his regal beauty waited patiently on the side for us.

After burning the holes where we needed them to be, I put rabbit manure down there then the onion bulbs, covered with dirt and a dose of more rabbit manure on top.

Yellow, Red and Green onions are in. Finally.

Mrs. Farmer Chick. Sexy right?! LOL

We had a bunch of garlic that was starting to sprout so I peeled them and Freeze Dried the lot, its super handy because you can just lay a knife flat on FD'd garlic and mince it instantly just by pushing down. Works super fantastic and the flavour is concentrated so you need less.

I've been waiting months to harvest Blackberry leaves and they are finally sprouting so off I went. This is a blend of blackberry and black raspberry leaves. They will be in the FD within the hour. 

These leaves have many medicinal properties and uses such as Cancer, Dysentery, Whooping cough, Mouth ulcer, Minor bleeding, Diarrhea, Toothache, Sore throat, Colitis, Anemia, Mouth wash, Psoriasis, Hemorrhoids. More information about this can be found here. Or for a simpler explanation just Google ' Medicinal benefits of Blackberry leaves'.

Brad's massage therapist has a small homestead and they just had some lambs born very recently. 
So cute.

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The expected layout of our garden this year. Does not include the 11'x13' bed of garlic Brad planted in the fall.

We picked up some parts yesterday for a garden update which will be in an upcoming post.