visited friends J.&N. today and came away with this Fantastic Book: Eating and Drinking with Wild Plants by Laurette van Slobbe
I'm thrilled, not only is our garden full of plants (formerly known as weeds) I can dye with, many of them and more can be eaten as well!!!!oooohhhhh this is great news for the lazy gardner that I am, also I like slugs and snails and the normal gardenplants you go out and buy often get eaten by the critters and now I truly don't have to worry about them anymore not that I did really, I admire their tenacity and strength in numbers, plus they are a food source for all the birds |
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stuff...in response to the last
few posts, but am so deep in Goat
Energy and that is demanding all i
have in the moment....and i so am
loving remembering the Jack Sparrow
shirt and today see that Johnny Depp
is back in N Mex again and SIGH, oh
jeez, Saskia.
but i come here several times a day
just to Be here.
the LIZARD, actually ghecko, i
think, is oh SO Fine and could it
be possible that i saw Little Bird
today?????? a fast fluttering caught my eye coming from the East?
no...it couldn't be, not so soon...
LOVE
Nancy: isn't he sweet, and I'm not even sure the way I'm using this flour-resist technique is correct! redefining like this is such a relief for All the lazy gardners
Grace, I am glad you like visiting and it's really nice to know you do; of course the goats keep you busy, as they will do for some time....
I like to think of the gecko as a lizard as it reminds me of you.
no news yet from LittleBird.....
also have magical qualities...their
FEET!...wow...feet again. maybe
i find out that i have a hidden
foot thing?????
gecko is truly tryly beautiful....
screen different times of day and
this morning, i see the Shadow
of Lizard...! unexpected wonder
is lacking Nothing.
what does it tell you about Nettles?
and...cheese????? i assume using
the wild herbs in the cheese????
either the dye colour was intensified
or the resist spot remained lighter;
I expected the flour-resist to work as a resist, which it should have I think, I have to do more research and experiments!
Maybe it has to do with the type of fabric itself, maybe with the consistency of the flour-mix, or a combination of factors, perhaps the heat of the dye, anyway, loads more experimenting!
for eample:
fresh meadow cress, daisy leaf, shepherd's purse, yarrow, dandelion leaves/petals;
dried nettles, colts foot, goutweed
and for decoration and taste: flowers of lungwort, ground ivy, poppy, evening primrose, marigold.....
what the book tells me about nettles:
you can use them for teas, in smoothies and as vegetables; they are used to stimulate metabolism, very rich in minerals: iron, magnesium, manganese, calcium and potassium(kalium), lots of vit C, B and provitamin A; dried leaves contain up to 40% protein, the leaves contain lots of chlorofyl which helps break down waste products. Nettles are of major importance for blood purification, blood forming and blood deacidification. The enzyme secretin encourages gastric juices, increasing digestion.
The plant is medicinal and an excellent hair and skin conditioner; whereever they grow they imrpove soil quality, It has been shown that when they grow near to aromatic and medicinal plants the ratio of ethereal oils in these plants augments.
They are host to the caterpillars of the atalanta, small turoiseshell (kleine vos) and peacock butterfly (dagpauwoog)
I think I have fallen in love with nettles!!
there's more information, but I'll leave it at this for now, maybe I'll have to devote an entire post to the humble nettle