Weeds, Workshops and Rain

 Last Saturday our Simple Living Toowoomba group held a workshop titled 'Identifying Weeds' which was presented by Tim Nash a local soil scientist and secretary of Permaculture Toowoomba.

A week of challenges

It has been a challenging week with one thing or another and was finished off with me being locked out of my Google account which meant I couldn't write a blog post but I have just discovered I could get into Blogger by using a different browser. Technology!!!

Any weeds at your place?

We have had a fair bit of rain during winter which we keep being told was very unusual although it did remind me of the winters we used to have but perhaps not as cold. So now we have weeds everywhere which are very hard to keep under control when you have 1/2 acre and are getting a bit long in the tooth!

Nettle Fertiliser

You may have read the recent post about my Nettle Soap Experiment. I have found a few patches of stinging nettles in the garden since the CEO hasn't been well enough to do any gardening which includes weeding and knowing that nettles have outstanding features like being a rich store of minerals and vitamins, are one of the richest plant sources of chlorophyll and iron and have other benefits such as the ability to make more oxygen available to the vital organs, major blood vessels and cells, I thought I would read more about the plant in Isabell Shipard's How Can I Use Herbs in My Daily Life?