GARDENING
WHAT TO DO IN THE GARDEN THIS SEASON During the colder months it’s tempting to lock the back door and snuggle up on the sofa in front of the TV, but Winter is a time to play catch up in the garden or at the veggie patch. All those jobs you just didn’t get time to do during the busy growing months … well now is the time to spend a little while getting all those jobs done and ensuring everything is shipshape for Spring, before it all starts going crazy again. If you haven’t yet made space for some compost bins, then this is the first and most important job to get done if you can. It’s so important that we all make an effort to reduce our waste and throwing your food waste into the regular rubbish bin creates greenhouse gases as well as being really wasteful. Nothing 62
gets thrown into landfill in terms of food waste in my household. We make a super extra effort to eat up all leftovers and any that don’t get eaten for whatever reason are then fed to our rescue chickens who seem happy to finish up the leftovers. Any vegetable peelings that can’t be used by us or the chickens are kept in the fridge and made into soup stock or used up in sauces etc (we have a bowl full of broccoli stems, mushroom stalks etc). We chuck them into the soup pot, cook and blitz them all up and voilà - a perfect base for a pot of winter warming soup. Any scraps that can’t be used go into our compost bins of which we now have four at home - we have a section in the garden where they all sit directly onto the bare earth and are filled each day with our leftover veggies, Cibare Magazine
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By Emma Sousa
