The growing season is just around the corner, which means the preparations and hard work kick off in earnest over the next fortnight. First, though, comes the seed order. We start by working through the seed that we already have in store, a mixture of saved seed from last year’s crops plus excess seeds from [...]
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Tag Archives: nettles
Time to dust off the brewing apparatus
20 November, 2007
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The average price of a pint of beer could hit £4 after poor weather forced up the price of hops, according to the Guardian. The newspaper reports the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) as saying the average price of a pint of lager is £2.50, with bitter costing around £2.20. It says some brewers [...]
Read morePasta with zing
3 October, 2007
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Having been prompted to post my nettle ale recipe, I thought I should also dust off my recipe for nettle pasta. Depending on your viewpoint, nettle pasta is either extremely avant garde cuisine – or a dish for very poor people. Whichever it is, it’s delicious and well worth trying.
Read moreNettle ale
3 October, 2007
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I was wading through my backlog of draft posts with a view to deleting the ones I’ll never get around to finishing, when I discovered I hadn’t published my second recipe for nettle ale. This version is simpler, leaves out the dandelion and is somewhat stronger. (The other recipe can be found here.)
Read moreDon’t spray those nettles
18 April, 2006
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It never ceases to amaze me that people blitz their gardens with chemicals then go to the pub and spend their cash on beer, when they could sit back, let the nettles grow and then enjoy a nice tipple free. Okay, I admit the sugar, lemons, oranges and yeast cost a few pounds but the [...]
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