so what's up in edible gardening lands?

things are showing a case of the normal late
season yellows. the cosmos are fading, the
beans are starting to leave leaves on the ground.
the tomatoes are mostly stem and fruit gradually
ripening.

as it does the ever-bearing strawberries are
on their third or fourth crop and without a
deep freeze they'll keep on trying. last fall
there were a few nice berries that needed only
a few more days to go before they'd finish.
this season we hope for those few extra days,
but the plants are flowering now, so they don't
seem to care. after all they still have
plenty of sunshine to keep on chugging. my
normal mid-summer strawberry patch routine is
to take peas, beans, soybeans and scatter them
throughout the patch and then put down an inch
or so of whatever mulch i can find. this year
it was shredded wood. then water well to
encourage the sprouts to have at it. it is a
very stark transistion as the patch looks really
wiped out by mid-summer with the leaves getting
spotted and dried out with the heat. a few weeks
later, everything is renewed and looking nice
and green and the beans are starting to give a
little shade.

i'll continue to increase the percentage of
ever-bearing strawberry plants in all of my patches
because it is very nice to have berries all season
and not just in june.

the other two strawberry patches have different
requirements so they have not been renovated this
season. besides i don't have any more mulch to
use up so what organic material gets used has to
be grown in place. or in the case of the far back
patch (#3) i am digging trenches for dumping the
canning trimmings so that will help that rock hard
soil out. i'm hoping tomorrow i can get outside
to start planting cover crops in a few areas including
this 3rd strawberry patch. that soil can use a lot
of help back there...

all told, a good season for strawberries. even
the back patch near the large drainage ditch produced
well even when being raided almost continually from
critters. i consider it a very happy arrangement as
then that soil is covered by something productive
(it used to be left bare) and doesn't get covered
too badly by weeds. it has some, but the oregano,
strawberries and hollyhocks are all quite capable
of holding their own most of the time.

the garlic harvest was also quite nice this year.
i've peeled about 40 heads worth for making salsa
and all of it was good quality and fairly large
cloves even on the smaller and medium sized heads.
to encourage me to finish getting all the vagrant
garlics harvested next summer i'll plant less in
the easier places, but i am going to plant an area
specifically for green garlic harvesting in the
winter/spring because i enjoyed that so much and it
is much easier to grow than any of the green onions
i've tried to sprout. i certainly have enough starts
(e-mail if you want some -- it's hard necked garlic).
for green garlic if you want a nice long blanched
stalk plant it a few inches deeper than you would
normally plant.

tomatoes, we'll be picking again tomorrow as we
finished processing the second picking a few days
ago. not sure how many we'll do, but i suspect a
few dozen more quarts are still out there.

bell peppers also were mostly picked a few days
ago and turned into stuffed green peppers (and already
either eaten or sent off to other families to eat up).
we had three full buckets of red, yellow and green
peppers. though i must admit that we didn't let the
yellow peppers get all that yellow. one we did set
aside to fully turn yellow was eaten in a taste test
and i agree with my earlier assessment that the flavor
isn't worth the bother. red or green are much better.

the beets we haven't even started processing yet.
plenty out there to pick when we do get to it.

cabbages, harvested the other day and taken to
the place where they'll be turned into saurkraut.
Thursday will be when that happens. Ma is going to
go help. i'm staying home as this crud is still
holding on a bit yet.

green, wax and other fresh beans. all did well
this year. many pickings worth. what is left now
will be for seed source for next year.

edamame soybeans, just filling in pods, look
like they are doing ok.

peas, some places are on the third crop. mostly
as a cover or fill in plant because i have so many
extra seeds. most will not have enough time to do
much for another crop, but the plants and flowers
are nice to see instead of bare dirt. the chipmunks
have been raiding the peas so heavily this year that
my second crop is probably mostly buried in their
hidey-holes. already we have sprouts coming up
places i know i didn't plant them... i don't mind.
got plenty.

dry beans, some varieties i gave a second season
to see if they'd do ok, found out that it's not worth
the space for those varieties in this soil, so i will
cut back on next year's plantings for those and put
in the others that are doing well. the pole beans
from the south that i trialed this season are going
gonzo with a very heavy crop. it will be a joy to
pick those (standing up mostly ). already i've
eaten plenty as fresh beans too. well worth the
space.

squash, i need to get out and pick the fruits from
the vines that have died back. for plants put in an
area that we hadn't used before (in fact we covered
it with three or four layers of carpeting and then
cut holes for the squash plant seeds). the squash
plants went all over the place. most of what they
are growing in is layers of old wood covered with
layers of dirt. it was to be the mushroom farm, but
we only had a few mushrooms and Ma hated the weeds
growing there so i chopped it back and then we
smothered it. eventually, i will curse every strand
of those carpetings, but until then...

in not really planning to grow squash we still will
have quite a harvest from all the vagrant seeds that
came up in various gardens. in the case of the beet
garden i had so many squash seedlings pushing up that
it uprooted a fair proportion of the beet plants.
and i'd decided that i needed to change the worm farm
treatment of squash and melon remains to avoid that
complication in the future. so the remains are now
quarantined to one bucket and i can use that in places
where i won't mind the volunteer squish plants.

the biggest challenge this season was the onions.
the quality of the sets wasn't very nice (most were
too big). i have a lot of onion seeds for playing
with now. many flowered. most didn't do much
at all. too much C in the soil is a large factor
for some of the gardens. too much cloudy and rainy
weather in June.

rhubarb i didn't harvest at all this year other
than a few stalks as i was walking by.

pretty much everything other than the cabbages,
onions and tomatoes were trouble free. the tomatoes
i mostly ignored as picking off diseased leaves
didn't make any notable difference over the longer
term and likely cut back on production shorter
term. we'll try something different next year for
the tomatoes. we may not need that many plants
anyways.

overall, i'd say it was a good season and is
shaping up nicely. the benefit of having a mostly
covered and maint-free garden is that i could
ignore it for most of two weeks and not have too
many disasters waiting for me when i get back
out there. the biggest will be getting the
large drainage trench redone as it collapsed
somewhat from the heavy rains we had. c'est
la vie...


songbird

"songbird" wrote in message
...
so what's up in edible gardening lands?

Phew! It soudns like it was a very productive year for you 'Bird. You must
have been flat out like a lizard drinking (Aussie for 'really, really busy')
to plant, care for, harvest and then process all that lot.

Farm1 wrote:
songbird wrote:

so what's up in edible gardening lands?

Phew! It soudns like it was a very productive year for you 'Bird. You must
have been flat out like a lizard drinking (Aussie for 'really, really busy')
to plant, care for, harvest and then process all that lot.

it's actually pretty reasonable most of the
time around here with two of us gardening as
we have time and energy. most of the gardens
are established or mulched enough to keep the
weeds down. if we have a dry spell that means
very few weeds in the limestone mulch. i work
about 4hrs a day average and some of that isn't
gardening as much as it is landscaping or basic
maintenance like caulking the cracks or fixing
the fireplace cap or improving the drainage or
dot, dot, dot.

i'm only a bit jammed up now because of
the illness, which gets to a story...

last spring Ma was very nice to get me a
gift for my 50th birthday of a new front
tooth (i broke it off when i was a kid diving
over a snowbank preceeded by my ice-skating
step-brother). after several months of
getting my teeth white enough that the doc
would match it (he really didn't want to put
a yellow crown on and i can't blame him).
so finally a few weeks ago we did the new
crown (with the modern gizmos it can be done
in a few hours now instead of waiting weeks
for a lab to cook it up). anyways, when he
was grinding the old stump to make a good
base for the crown i breathed in some of the
dust and i suspect that contained the
bacterial critters that took me out a few
days later - been hacking lungs out since then.

someone said i could have picked it up any-
place, but i'm usually very good about keeping
my hands out of my face and washing them when
i come home from being out. and i rarely go
out anyways (a part of personal vows taken at
age 25, but that's a whole different round of
stories and not even close to on-topic here
). it's never my fault. never. heheh.

we keep joking about this gift as being
the one that keeps on giving, but damn that
new tooth looks very nice compared to the
old one... i'm a movie star! *cue theme
from Beverly Hillbillies* whee!

i'll be much more like a flat out lizard
drinking in the next six to eight weeks, the
past few weeks i've been more like the frozen
lizard sleeping. Ma's been running rings
around me lately. today she's made bread,
brownies, and fed me more sugar than a bear
in a bee hive. i just had a wonderful mug
of hot chocolate (left-over frosting )
and half a pie pan of male brownies (with
walnuts (the ones without nuts are female
brownies)). don't worry, i had some veggies
today too, but i'm still going to be awake
until 4am... one of our other running jokes
is wishing for mining lamps so we can garden
at night. it's only a joke, i really don't
want to be out there with the raccoons as
i'm sure i smell really chocolaty and
dewicious and i can't run far at the moment.
i'd be a sitting duck... *qwack*


songbird

"songbird" wrote in message
Farm1 wrote:
songbird wrote:

so what's up in edible gardening lands?

Phew! It soudns like it was a very productive year for you 'Bird. You
must
have been flat out like a lizard drinking (Aussie for 'really, really
busy')
to plant, care for, harvest and then process all that lot.

it's actually pretty reasonable most of the
time around here with two of us gardening as
we have time and energy. most of the gardens
are established or mulched enough to keep the
weeds down. if we have a dry spell that means
very few weeds in the limestone mulch. i work
about 4hrs a day average and some of that isn't
gardening as much as it is landscaping or basic
maintenance like caulking the cracks or fixing
the fireplace cap or improving the drainage or
dot, dot, dot.

i'm only a bit jammed up now because of
the illness, which gets to a story...

last spring Ma was very nice to get me a
gift for my 50th birthday of a new front
tooth (i broke it off when i was a kid diving
over a snowbank preceeded by my ice-skating
step-brother). after several months of
getting my teeth white enough that the doc
would match it (he really didn't want to put
a yellow crown on and i can't blame him).

Sounds like he just wanted to get mroe money out of you with the teeth
whitening. My dentist has done several crowns on me and he matched them to
what I've got in my mouth. I'd have not looked kindly on him suggesting
that my teeth needed whitening - my teeth are a natural colour that no doubt
arose from the places I've lived and where I've drunk local water.

so finally a few weeks ago we did the new
crown (with the modern gizmos it can be done
in a few hours now instead of waiting weeks
for a lab to cook it up). anyways, when he
was grinding the old stump to make a good
base for the crown i breathed in some of the
dust and i suspect that contained the
bacterial critters that took me out a few
days later - been hacking lungs out since then.

Hmmmm. That doesn't make sense to me. Those critters would have been in
your mouth before, and not jsut at the time of your dental treatment and you
can't tell me that they couldnt' have found a way from your mouth to your
lungs at any other time than when you were at the dentist.

someone said i could have picked it up any-
place, but i'm usually very good about keeping
my hands out of my face and washing them when
i come home from being out. and i rarely go
out anyways (a part of personal vows taken at
age 25, but that's a whole different round of
stories and not even close to on-topic here
). it's never my fault. never. heheh.

we keep joking about this gift as being
the one that keeps on giving, but damn that
new tooth looks very nice compared to the
old one... i'm a movie star! *cue theme
from Beverly Hillbillies* whee!

i'll be much more like a flat out lizard
drinking in the next six to eight weeks,

The way to use that expression properly in that sentence would be: 'I'll be
much more flat out like a lizard drinking in the next 6 to 8 weeks'.

the
past few weeks i've been more like the frozen
lizard sleeping.

:-)) Nice analogy.

Ma's been running rings
around me lately. today she's made bread,
brownies, and fed me more sugar than a bear
in a bee hive. i just had a wonderful mug
of hot chocolate (left-over frosting )
and half a pie pan of male brownies (with
walnuts (the ones without nuts are female
brownies)). don't worry, i had some veggies
today too, but i'm still going to be awake
until 4am... one of our other running jokes
is wishing for mining lamps so we can garden
at night. it's only a joke, i really don't
want to be out there with the raccoons as
i'm sure i smell really chocolaty and
dewicious and i can't run far at the moment.
i'd be a sitting duck... *qwack*

'Bird, I've had a filthy cough too and I have bee using mentholed chest rub
(Vicks) at night and that has helped, but the best help has been from a
cough medicine called Rikodeine which has stopped the hacking at night. You
might need a Doctor's script for it depending on where you live as it has
codeine in it - it's the only cough medicine I've ever foudn that works.

The one other thing that actually also helped was putting Vicks on my feet
before going to bed and then putting socks on over the Vicks. I mentioned
that to someone and they said that was their Mum's secret to chesty recovery
when they were a child.

Farm1 wrote:
songbird wrote:
Farm1 wrote:
songbird wrote:

so what's up in edible gardening lands?

Phew! It soudns like it was a very productive year for you 'Bird. You
must
have been flat out like a lizard drinking (Aussie for 'really, really
busy')
to plant, care for, harvest and then process all that lot.

it's actually pretty reasonable most of the
time around here with two of us gardening as
we have time and energy. most of the gardens
are established or mulched enough to keep the
weeds down. if we have a dry spell that means
very few weeds in the limestone mulch. i work
about 4hrs a day average and some of that isn't
gardening as much as it is landscaping or basic
maintenance like caulking the cracks or fixing
the fireplace cap or improving the drainage or
dot, dot, dot.

i'm only a bit jammed up now because of
the illness, which gets to a story...

last spring Ma was very nice to get me a
gift for my 50th birthday of a new front
tooth (i broke it off when i was a kid diving
over a snowbank preceeded by my ice-skating
step-brother). after several months of
getting my teeth white enough that the doc
would match it (he really didn't want to put
a yellow crown on and i can't blame him).

Sounds like he just wanted to get mroe money out of you with the teeth
whitening.

no, this was done as a part of the whole
deal. so no extra charge. he's a decent
guy.


My dentist has done several crowns on me and he matched them to
what I've got in my mouth. I'd have not looked kindly on him suggesting
that my teeth needed whitening - my teeth are a natural colour that no doubt
arose from the places I've lived and where I've drunk local water.




so finally a few weeks ago we did the new
crown (with the modern gizmos it can be done
in a few hours now instead of waiting weeks
for a lab to cook it up). anyways, when he
was grinding the old stump to make a good
base for the crown i breathed in some of the
dust and i suspect that contained the
bacterial critters that took me out a few
days later - been hacking lungs out since then.

Hmmmm. That doesn't make sense to me. Those critters would have been in
your mouth before, and not jsut at the time of your dental treatment and you
can't tell me that they couldnt' have found a way from your mouth to your
lungs at any other time than when you were at the dentist.

normally breathing brings in all sorts of things
that get picked up by the mucus and transported
out of the lungs by the cillia. so yes, there
are always critters going in and out. what is
different with the dental procedure is that it
generates a large amount of dust/fragments that
can overload the mucus/cillia. some people who
have frail immune systems or heart problems take
antibiotics before dental procedures to avoid
such chance infections.


someone said i could have picked it up any-
place, but i'm usually very good about keeping
my hands out of my face and washing them when
i come home from being out. and i rarely go
out anyways (a part of personal vows taken at
age 25, but that's a whole different round of
stories and not even close to on-topic here
). it's never my fault. never. heheh.

we keep joking about this gift as being
the one that keeps on giving, but damn that
new tooth looks very nice compared to the
old one... i'm a movie star! *cue theme
from Beverly Hillbillies* whee!

i'll be much more like a flat out lizard
drinking in the next six to eight weeks,

The way to use that expression properly in that sentence would be: 'I'll be
much more flat out like a lizard drinking in the next 6 to 8 weeks'.

hehehe, thanks.


the
past few weeks i've been more like the frozen
lizard sleeping.

:-)) Nice analogy.

yesterday, i got a bit moving and had the
cabbage garden finished before the rain squall
came through. i quickly ran out and got some of
the squash picked as i wanted them to not get
wet yet another time this week.


Ma's been running rings
around me lately. today she's made bread,
brownies, and fed me more sugar than a bear
in a bee hive. i just had a wonderful mug
of hot chocolate (left-over frosting )
and half a pie pan of male brownies (with
walnuts (the ones without nuts are female
brownies)). don't worry, i had some veggies
today too, but i'm still going to be awake
until 4am... one of our other running jokes
is wishing for mining lamps so we can garden
at night. it's only a joke, i really don't
want to be out there with the raccoons as
i'm sure i smell really chocolaty and
dewicious and i can't run far at the moment.
i'd be a sitting duck... *qwack*

'Bird, I've had a filthy cough too and I have bee using mentholed chest rub
(Vicks) at night and that has helped, but the best help has been from a
cough medicine called Rikodeine which has stopped the hacking at night. You
might need a Doctor's script for it depending on where you live as it has
codeine in it - it's the only cough medicine I've ever foudn that works.

anything with codeine need doctors prescription
here. i've been monitoring the situation closely
all along as i certainly didn't want it to require
hospitalization, but i've always been able to sleep
and my temperature never got way up there. the
worst period was about 1wk in. then it's tapered
off since. i hope to be fully recovered in a few
more days. woke up today feeling almost normal if
a bit sore from yesterdays efforts, but it is the
good kind of sore that reminds you that you did
something useful for a change.

hope you get over the crud soon. it isn't much
fun.


The one other thing that actually also helped was putting Vicks on my feet
before going to bed and then putting socks on over the Vicks. I mentioned
that to someone and they said that was their Mum's secret to chesty recovery
when they were a child.

i've heard of that one before.


songbird

"Farm1" wrote in message
...
"songbird" wrote in message

'Bird, I've had a filthy cough too and I have bee using mentholed chest
rub (Vicks) at night and that has helped, but the best help has been from
a cough medicine called Rikodeine which has stopped the hacking at night.
You might need a Doctor's script for it depending on where you live as it
has codeine in it - it's the only cough medicine I've ever foudn that
works.

The one other thing that actually also helped was putting Vicks on my feet
before going to bed and then putting socks on over the Vicks. I mentioned
that to someone and they said that was their Mum's secret to chesty
recovery when they were a child.


My mum, who qualified as an old wife, used to rub a garlic clove on our feet
for chesty colds. We woke up with garlic breath which, to me, indicated the
garlic spread through the body. No idea if it really worked but we did
appreciate the extra attention.

I have only just been reminded of this and regret not having done it to my
children when they were young.

Mike

"Bloke Down The Pub" wrote in message
. au...

"Farm1" wrote in message
...
"songbird" wrote in message

'Bird, I've had a filthy cough too and I have bee using mentholed chest
rub (Vicks) at night and that has helped, but the best help has been from
a cough medicine called Rikodeine which has stopped the hacking at night.
You might need a Doctor's script for it depending on where you live as it
has codeine in it - it's the only cough medicine I've ever foudn that
works.

The one other thing that actually also helped was putting Vicks on my
feet before going to bed and then putting socks on over the Vicks. I
mentioned that to someone and they said that was their Mum's secret to
chesty recovery when they were a child.


My mum, who qualified as an old wife, used to rub a garlic clove on our
feet for chesty colds. We woke up with garlic breath which, to me,
indicated the garlic spread through the body.

That is really interesting. Who'd a thunk that would happen.....

I like old memories coming back and these days even note then down in the
family history records to add flesh to the bones of Born, Died, Married.

No idea if it really worked but we did
appreciate the extra attention.

I have only just been reminded of this and regret not having done it to my
children when they were young.

:-)) I wonder why garlic instead of Vicks?

But then garlic and onions are supposed to be good for chesty type gunk. I
remember one of the old wives remedies used to be to chop up an onion finely
and add brown sugar and let it stand for a while and then to drain off the
juice and take that by the spoonful.

And whilst I've had the coldy thing, I had a craving for lemons served up in
all ways. I made lemon curd/butter and ate it by the spoonful. It was very
soothing on my throat but probably not good for the cholesterol or the
waistline (not that I try to pay too much attention to either of those
things).

On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:49:40 +1000, "Farm1"
wrote:

But then garlic and onions are supposed to be good for chesty type gunk. I
remember one of the old wives remedies used to be to chop up an onion finely
and add brown sugar and let it stand for a while and then to drain off the
juice and take that by the spoonful.

And whilst I've had the coldy thing, I had a craving for lemons served up in
all ways. I made lemon curd/butter and ate it by the spoonful. It was very
soothing on my throat but probably not good for the cholesterol or the
waistline (not that I try to pay too much attention to either of those
things).


You might enjoy a ginger, lemon and honey tea laced with brandy -
very good for congestion.

Kate

@notme.com wrote:
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:49:40 +1000, "Farm1"
wrote:

But then garlic and onions are supposed to be good for chesty type
gunk. I remember one of the old wives remedies used to be to chop
up an onion finely and add brown sugar and let it stand for a while
and then to drain off the juice and take that by the spoonful.

And whilst I've had the coldy thing, I had a craving for lemons
served up in all ways. I made lemon curd/butter and ate it by the
spoonful. It was very soothing on my throat but probably not good
for the cholesterol or the waistline (not that I try to pay too much
attention to either of those things).


You might enjoy a ginger, lemon and honey tea laced with brandy -
very good for congestion.

Kate

Old fashioned remedies are often cute but rarely effective beyond the
placebo effect. One Grandma used to favour sulphur and mollasses for almost
anything that ails you, the other would absolutely destroy cabbage by
boiling it for ages and then 'because it was good for him' make my Dad drink
the water. He learned very young to be elsewhere when his mum started
cooking cabbage.

OTOH the ginger lemon honey and brandy sounds like it would really do some
good!

D

wrote in message
...
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:49:40 +1000, "Farm1"
wrote:

But then garlic and onions are supposed to be good for chesty type gunk.
I
remember one of the old wives remedies used to be to chop up an onion
finely
and add brown sugar and let it stand for a while and then to drain off the
juice and take that by the spoonful.

And whilst I've had the coldy thing, I had a craving for lemons served up
in
all ways. I made lemon curd/butter and ate it by the spoonful. It was
very
soothing on my throat but probably not good for the cholesterol or the
waistline (not that I try to pay too much attention to either of those
things).


You might enjoy a ginger, lemon and honey tea laced with brandy -
very good for congestion.

Aaaah. That too sounds interesting and makes me wonder if perhaps the body
knows best what it needs. I did the lemon and honey dring lots and whilst
I've had the bug, the other thing that I also craved, and of which I ate a
lot, was a Sweet Potato, Pumpkin and Ginger soup. This soup has so much
grated fresh ginger in it that it's almost curry like.

"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
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@notme.com wrote:
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:49:40 +1000, "Farm1"
wrote:

But then garlic and onions are supposed to be good for chesty type
gunk. I remember one of the old wives remedies used to be to chop
up an onion finely and add brown sugar and let it stand for a while
and then to drain off the juice and take that by the spoonful.

And whilst I've had the coldy thing, I had a craving for lemons
served up in all ways. I made lemon curd/butter and ate it by the
spoonful. It was very soothing on my throat but probably not good
for the cholesterol or the waistline (not that I try to pay too much
attention to either of those things).


You might enjoy a ginger, lemon and honey tea laced with brandy -
very good for congestion.

Kate

Old fashioned remedies are often cute but rarely effective beyond the
placebo effect.

For the past 40 years my Doctor has said to me of colds that I can have
medication which will cure me in 7 days time or I can try the Granny
remedies and I'll be cured in a week.

But what does she know.......................

Farm1 wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" wrote in message
...


@notme.com wrote:
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:49:40 +1000, "Farm1"
wrote:

But then garlic and onions are supposed to be good for chesty type
gunk. I remember one of the old wives remedies used to be to chop
up an onion finely and add brown sugar and let it stand for a while
and then to drain off the juice and take that by the spoonful.

And whilst I've had the coldy thing, I had a craving for lemons
served up in all ways. I made lemon curd/butter and ate it by the
spoonful. It was very soothing on my throat but probably not good
for the cholesterol or the waistline (not that I try to pay too
much attention to either of those things).


You might enjoy a ginger, lemon and honey tea laced with brandy -
very good for congestion.

Kate

Old fashioned remedies are often cute but rarely effective beyond the
placebo effect.

For the past 40 years my Doctor has said to me of colds that I can
have medication which will cure me in 7 days time or I can try the
Granny remedies and I'll be cured in a week.

But what does she know.......................

There is no cure for the common cold is a third way to say the same thing.

D

On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:33:45 +1000, "Farm1"
wrote:

wrote in message
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On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:49:40 +1000, "Farm1"
wrote:

But then garlic and onions are supposed to be good for chesty type gunk.
I
remember one of the old wives remedies used to be to chop up an onion
finely
and add brown sugar and let it stand for a while and then to drain off the
juice and take that by the spoonful.

And whilst I've had the coldy thing, I had a craving for lemons served up
in
all ways. I made lemon curd/butter and ate it by the spoonful. It was
very
soothing on my throat but probably not good for the cholesterol or the
waistline (not that I try to pay too much attention to either of those
things).


You might enjoy a ginger, lemon and honey tea laced with brandy -
very good for congestion.

Aaaah. That too sounds interesting and makes me wonder if perhaps the body
knows best what it needs. I did the lemon and honey dring lots and whilst
I've had the bug, the other thing that I also craved, and of which I ate a
lot, was a Sweet Potato, Pumpkin and Ginger soup. This soup has so much
grated fresh ginger in it that it's almost curry like.


It may not "cure" the cold, but I imagine your body appreciates the
support. But where's the brandy?

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On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:33:45 +1000, "Farm1"
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On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 21:49:40 +1000, "Farm1"
wrote:

But then garlic and onions are supposed to be good for chesty type gunk.
I
remember one of the old wives remedies used to be to chop up an onion
finely
and add brown sugar and let it stand for a while and then to drain off
the
juice and take that by the spoonful.

And whilst I've had the coldy thing, I had a craving for lemons served
up
in
all ways. I made lemon curd/butter and ate it by the spoonful. It was
very
soothing on my throat but probably not good for the cholesterol or the
waistline (not that I try to pay too much attention to either of those
things).


You might enjoy a ginger, lemon and honey tea laced with brandy -
very good for congestion.

Aaaah. That too sounds interesting and makes me wonder if perhaps the
body
knows best what it needs. I did the lemon and honey dring lots and whilst
I've had the bug, the other thing that I also craved, and of which I ate a
lot, was a Sweet Potato, Pumpkin and Ginger soup. This soup has so much
grated fresh ginger in it that it's almost curry like.


It may not "cure" the cold, but I imagine your body appreciates the
support. But where's the brandy?

LOL.