Gemüse- und Kräuterbeet

Poo and other smellies

We had a nice surprise from a friend this morning - a huge load of horse poop. I LOVE it! Well the compost will love it more...
So to continue on the poop theme, I then drained the worm bin of it's worm poop and made a nice tea to fertilize the flowers. In the evening it got real stinky with the nettle slurry....pheeeew!!! Thank goodness the neighbors were inside....but the veggies love this stuff, you can almost see them grow. The next day they look sooo happy!

The Baby Cardinals Hatched - (click on the picture to enlarge)

Just some blooms from this week

Dandelion Jam and such / Löwenzahn Marmelade

This week-end I made my Dandelion Jam and some Dandelion Honey. They came out great, but it was a LOT of work. I will post the recipe below. Collecting all the petals needed for this was very time consuming. I am still playing with a Pesto recipe and next year I want to make the wine (Liqueur).

Dandelion Jam - Löwenzahn Marmelade:
about 200 med to large Dandelion blossoms (ungefähr 200 Löwenzahn Blüten )
1 liter of water (Wasser)
2 lemons (2 Zitronen)
1 orange (1 Orange)
500gr sugar (Zucker)
Gelierfix 2:1 (Don't know what the english version of this would be, I get it from Germandeli.com)
Pluck all the yellow petals out of the flower base,(this is a lot of work), then slice the lemones and add to the petals,pour the water over and let stand overnight.
In the morning add the orange with a little off it's peel (Zest)puree everything and follow the instructions on your Gelierfix. Which is: take 2 tbsp of sugar from the 500gr mix it with the Gelierfix add to you puree and bring to a boil. When it boils add the remaining sugar, bring to a boil again and boil for exactly 1 min. take off heat and fill into jelly jars...done.
( Die gelben Blüten auszupfen, mit den in Scheiben geschnitenen Zitrone ubernacht ziehen lassen. Am nächsten Tag etwas Orangenschale und den rest der Orange hinzugeben und alles mit dem Purierstab vermanschen. Danach einfach die Gelierfix anleitung verfolgen.)
I will post the honey recipe later.
Please make sure you use bio oranges and lemons.