Plant Power

All the boys have had colds.  Hopefully their last of the winter!  We have been using plant power to chase away those unwanted guests.

Plant Power One:  rosehips.  Packed with Vitamin C.   There are still rosehips about here so it's not too late to gather these.  I have collected lots and lots and dehydrated a very big batch.  Great added to stews, soups and to make tea.  The tea is the easiest and quickest and so tasty. A handful of rosehips!


I have lots of teabag paper so we make up our little teabags and brew up a pot.


Also rosehip syrup.  This is the recipe I use.


Plant Power 2 - elderberry - just a bit of elderberry syrup left from the batch I made earlier in the year.

Star Plant Power!  Last, but definitely my favourite star power plant - nettles.  Again, I dried a whole lot of leaves much earlier in the year and have stored this to make tea.

I couldn't do without nettle tea!  

And just to add.  We have so many sloes here.  Big juicy sloes.  The boys like the bitter taste and eat them off the bushes.  I really wanted to find a use for them besides sloe gin.  I made sloe and crabapple jelly.  It does taste good.  You can see we have been eating it!  Anyone have any other good uses for sloes?


























Next up - hawthornes!  Still haven't made what I plan to so will let you know when I have!