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Category: Sustainability
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How to make potassium water
Potassium water is a tea compost or liquid fertiliser you can make easily at home with kitchen or food scraps. Just throw the particular ingredients into water and let it steep. You can do this with any food scraps. Research what they’re made up and you can figure out a balanced fertiliser to match your plants.
In this case we’ll use banana skins, they have lots of potassium.
Get a container
An old milk bottle or water bottle will do. I use the old 2 ltr milk bottles.
Eat bananas
Eat your bananas and keep the peels. The fun bit!
Put the peels into your water
Put the peels into your bottle of water and leave them to soak. The potassium from the bananas will seep into the water.
Wait for your k water
Leave it for a week or so and the water will start to brown. You can start watering your plants with it now! Pour it around the base of your plants, they will love it!
Top up your k water
Add more water to your container as you use it and replace the banana peels as they get too soggy. Mix in other scraps for other nutrients to make a fertiliser cocktail.
Enjoy!
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How to grow basil in a bottle
I love basil, you might too. It’s fresh herby smell and taste in a salad or on pizza is one of the pleasures in life. Let’s face it, the basil from the supermarkets isn’t all that fresh and since it’s been cut, it’s on its way out. Unless you’re lucky enough to have access to potted basil in your supermarket.
That’s what I always try to have some growing in the garden or near the kitchen window. It grows quickly and you can just take a cutting and start again with a new plant. Here’s an easy method to grow basil in an up cycled plastic bottle, you’ll need a basil seed or two.
Prepare your bottle
Wash your plastic bottle so it’s fairly clean. I remove the label so it’s easier to see the root progress. Then cut the top off with scissors.
Drill the lid
Drill the lid with a 6mm / 1/4″ hole to allow water to seep into your growing medium.
Flip your lid
Flip the lid and place it upside down into your bottle. Use a sharpie or similar marker to mark halfway up the lid as your watermark.
Plant your basil
Fill your bottle to the water mark and lace some cotton wool or kitchen paper into the lid and plant your basil seed into it.
Wait for germination
Put your bottle near a window and wait for the magic. Make sure to keep the water level constant and after a week or so, your basil should germinate.
Plant it out
After a month, you should have a nice little seedling ready to be planted out into a pot. Add some compost tea to the water if you’d like to keep it in near the window. Enjoy!
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How to make your own healthy fruit leather
Fruit leather is a great snack for at home or when on the road. It’s healthy and can be made entirely of fruit or vegetables. No need to add any sugar or flavours. These are great for saving a few dollars and stocking the kid’s lunchboxes.
Here’s a method to make your own and keep them stored for when you need them.
Peel your fruit (or vegetables)
Choose which combination of fruit or veggies you’d like in your fruit leather. Peel them and eat the peels or feed them to your worm farm or pets, ours go to the chickens.
Blend and blend
Remove all of the tough pith and seeds and put it all into the blender. If you’re using soft mushy fruit like bananas, leave those till later.
Squeeze the juice
Squeeze all of the juice out by pouring the mix into a cheesecloth and squeezing into a jug or bowl. Keep the fruit pulp, this is what we’ll use. The juice is for drinking, bottle it up.
Spread onto a tray
Spread the pulp onto baking paper in an oven tray. Get it down to a few mm in thickness.
Bake and cut it up
Bake this in the oven on a low heat around 110C or 230F for a couple of hours. Thickness, sugar and moisture content etc will change the time you need to bake. Grab your scissors and cut it up into strips for easy eating.
Store it for later
Store your fruit leather strips into a jar with a lid for later. Some people sprinkle these with sugar, I prefer them without. Enjoy with friends!
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