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In the off chance anyone cares: I’ve discovered that softer leaves like geranium, mint etc don’t dry well by this method. It’s better to put them in a low oven for a while so they dry faster. Woodier things like rosemary, lavender do fine. Elderflower dries very well this way and elderflower tea is lovely!
I’m going to try and make lip balm, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Filed under: Environmental Stuff In Edinburgh, Random musing / rants, compost
So what adventures have I been up to since the last post?
Hmm well lets start with my first ever gardening show, my loving husband bought us two tickets and nice lunch at ‘Gardening Scotland’, this is Scotland’s answer to shows like Chelsea Flower Show. They have show gardens, floral exhibits, speakers about gardening stuff and lots of stalls! They have a competition for school children called pallet gardens, which is a garden in a metre square space. Some were very impressive, some less so. The best one was a city garden, the kids had made some sky scraper buildings from polystyrene, and given each building window boxes, roof gardens and backgreens, brilliant!
There was an eco-friendly bit sponsored by Earthy Foods. It had lots of recycled garden materials, different groups encouraging people to grow their own fruit and veg, community gardens, native plants etc. I chatted to lots of people about this, bought a few plants we were missing in the herb garden, and learned about bee keeping, this is my new dream for the herb garden. First we need to join Edinburgh beekeepers association (done), then spend the winter going to lectures on beekeeping, then classes in the summer.
Anyway I digress, dwarfing this lovely little ecofriendly but was a huge area with shops, urging us all to buy unneccessary stuff for out garden (usually plastic), special clothes to garden in, stuff for out house. Even my beloved composters were at it, giving me an superfluous plastic stick to stir my compost with, eek! At leat it was free though.
