by Jane Cobbald | Jun 24, 2015 | Hints and tips
Ingredients 7 elderflower heads 4.5 litres (1 gallon) water 650 g sugar 2 lemons 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar Equipment 1 large bowl Plastic lemonade or water bottles, sterilised Pick the elderflower heads on a sunny morning. Shake off any bugs. Boil 1 litre of...
by Jane Cobbald | Nov 9, 2014 | Hints and tips, Organic growing, Ponders
A paragraph from our autumn newsletter: “Implementations will be fourteen years old next year. No signs yet of a turbulent adolescence. In fact, from our experience so far, we wonder if we can propose a new business model. Viktor Schauberger’s daughter-in-law,...
by Jane Cobbald | May 12, 2014 | Hints and tips
Our new patio – and the tools that helped make it. The edger cut the turf, the shovel lifted it. Then the hoe broke the soil up, which was shovelled into the wheelbarrow. Then the area was raked before the slabs were laid flat with the help of the spirit level....
by Jane Cobbald | Mar 14, 2014 | Hints and tips
Another use for the small riddle: tidy up the tubs. I removed the top layer of soil, added some compost, then riddled the soil I had removed back into the tub. This left the riddle with the stones which had disappeared down into the soil over the last year. I put them...