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#homestead

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Rob 🌱

After 4 years in our open plan #homestead house that has no room for unfunctional stuff i’ve unpacked some #pottery i did ages ago in Edinburgh.
Creative juice are now going to have to flow into solving
a)what was i thinking
and
b)how to display when there are no walls or shelves

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LokeMani

A meal from the garden. Black salsify, cooked and then briefly fried in butter, stir-fried chard, and potatoes. Simple and delicious.

Peeling black salsify can be a bit of a pain because of the sticky residue it leaves on every surface. I find that it is easiest to peel them under water, submerged in a big bowl.

After peeling, each piece goes straight into a bath of slightly salted water with a dash of vinegar. This prevents them from oxidizing.

Once the cooking water is boiling, they get rinsed and immediately cooked. When they are fully tender and slice easily, I drain them and then give them a turn in a hot pan with some butter and a dash of finishing salt. Perfectly tender inside and buttery on the outside.🍴

#growyourown#homestead#blacksalsify
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Good anger therapy: Tearing on the Virginia Creeper tendrils until a whole lump comes off the shed wall and roof.

But now I gotta rip and tear the bottoms out too and then put it on the burn pile.

Not a big fan of burning stuff without at least using the energy, but no other way to kill this stuff. Unless you mulch it into tiny, tiny pieces, it grows back. For the same reason you can't throw it on the compost.

#VirginiaCreeper#Gardening#Homestead
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Sidequest today: Make a keyboard, because I'm always fishing around in the pile of keys to find the right one.

Some planks salvaged from that 1988 beehive. Nothing fancy, pull out the rusty nails, cut off the rotten ends, two angled cuts along a guide. Glue and nail, patch some holes.

Then melted some of the ancient honeycomb to experiment with hot wax [disable safety advice]. Poured it through a t-shirt offcut to filter and applied it hot onto the wood. This worked until it cooled down too much, so I fixed that with the heat gun and hooray, the old wood glows.

A keepsake from the old beekeeper who has been dead a decade. I hope to take up her beekeeping some day, but far too many projects at the moment.

#DIY#SalvagePunk#Recycling
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Onion harvest. @vaviurka plucked them out and I improvised a drying rack from an old rickety wooden ladder, of which we have many in the barn.

Just added some extra sticks, lashed on with some wire from the scrap bin on one end only. That way onions can be pushed in under the stick rapidly.

A little garlic on there, too.

The first rickety ladder actually broke in two places and was added to the firewood pile. Too flimsy to hang onions from! 😬

The whole thing found a convenient place under the new firewood store. Warm, dry, sheltered from the sun and very well ventilated. The whole place smells like onions now 😆

#Homestead#Homesteading#DIY
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Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Ok, better. Fixed the low spot. Hammered some dents flat. Riveted the sheets together in between the rafters. Added facia all around, stapled some overlapping tar paper to the edges with goop in between.

Totally waterproof and looking a bit better, I think.

That roll of tar paper was laying on the floor in the garage, ready for disposal because in winter it was one solid lump. But leaving it in the sun for half a day I managed to unroll it. Used almost all of it, so one less piece of junk knocking around in the garage and put to use instead.

Now just some glue cleanup and paint, but as you can see it's raining again, so who knows when that'll happen. Anyways, it's doing its job well and I like it again! :)

#DIY#Homestead#Firewood
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Been reclaiming some more jungle. Discovered the hazelnut bush actually has a few hazelnuts, so I tried to clear better access to it.

Found another blackcurrant, big but so infested with Virginia creeper that we'll probably have to cut it down together. It's possible to pull the creepers out of an apple tree, but the blackcurrant bush just tears out with them.

The little blackcurrant we planted did ok initially but some ants chose to build their home in its roots, so now it's sad.

The ants are crazy this year. So many heaps everywhere. Eggs under every rock. Probably not just us, I see Norfa has a sale for 1kg packs of ant powder 😕

And a little cherry tree that planted itself and is already pretty tall and bearing some cherries, yet to be sampled.

#Homestead#Cleanup#Gardening
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar

Went for a sunset walk in the meadow yesterday. In full horsefly armor: fleece jacket, netted hat, gloves 😆

Counted ~25 tractor eggs, three failed, waterlogged ones (the plastic wrap ran out and nobody noticed) and one giant cardboard tube that the plastic wrap comes on, which I carried home.

Chicken (the cat) was out there hunting, as were our storks.

Didn't go down the valley yet as it was getting dark and the path was very slippery from the heavy rain.

#Homestead#Meadow#Hay
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