This months session was titled Get Growing.
I enjoyed learning about get growing, composting and activity slides.
Many thanks to Ahmed for creating and organising the presentation and providing refreshments.
Ikea Live Lagom Get Growing Session
Ikea Live Lagom Get Growing Session - Tonight's plan slide
How many acres of unused windowsills are there in the UK?
Answer: 600 acres
Can you sell foraged food?
Answer: No!
Growing at home slide
Benefits of home growing
Small space upcycling slide
Useful Apps
Useful Apps
Re-growing from food scraps
How to regrow spring onions
Method
Cut the green top of the spring onion, leaving 3.5 cm of the white root base intact.
Place the section into the shallow jar and submerge half the plant in water.
Leave in a sunny spot and change the water every other day.
Harvest directly from the jar when ready.
How to regrow lettuce
Method
Cut lettuce leaves, making sure to leave 3.5cm of height on the root section.
Place it a bowl with enough water to submerge the root (around 1cm).
Place this in a sunny location and change the water every other day.
After two weeks, when the lettuce sprouts new leaves and roots you should plant it out into putting soil for prolonged growth
Harvest when the leaves grow to baby leaf size (10cm).
How to regrow celery
Harvesting seeds from scraps
How to harvest
What is foraging?
Foraging around the year
Methods of food preservation
Why make compost?
What to compost at home?
Activity no 1 - homemade banana fertiiliser
Activity no 2 - Enclosed ecosphere
Activity no 3 - self watering planter
Activity no 4 - tin can planter
I hope to adopt some of the practices above and get growing lettuce and vegetables over the summer.
Baby Gem Lettuce in a glass
Baby Gem Lettuce growing well
I look forward to our last session and graduation.
This month I continued to recover from my right shoulder treatment.
I remotely attend two webinars about 'Understanding the home décor
and textile and apparel market.'
These webinars were organised by ITC.
This month I continued to recover from my right shoulder treatment.
I managed to attend a World Social Enterprise Day 2024 remote webinar.
I have updated my blog I wrote in 2021 about living with invisible disabilities and chronic pain.
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