If you don’t have the time or don’t want to make a ‘fresh ginger plant’ (see post) then I believe this is the next best option. Have a go and let me know what you think.
You will need the following to make the Ginger Beer.
1 sachet of brewers yeast
2lbs of sugar
1 jar of ground dried [...]

The seedlings that were set in March are all growing on strongly, and have all been potted on to give them a little more room to grow, although the house is now looking something like a greenhouse as every window ledge seems to have some seedlings growing on it.
The first photo’ show my Lemon grass, [...]

Sunday we spent the day in the garden, it was a beautiful warm and sunny day.  I have taken some photographs to keep you up to date on what we have been doing.  The ‘veggie’ patch has now been extended into the garden having taken over what were two rose beds some long while back. [...]

Ginger Beer, ahh the best fizzy drink going. Well that’s how I feel,  now I want to share the recipe that I think is the very best.
This has been an experiment for me and I hope that if you try it you will agree that has been successful.
I will give alternatives to  give quicker results [...]

Hooray! Today bottled the first of many, I hope.
I used the yeast, ginger and sugar plant which I drained and added to some sugar syrup and fresh lemon juice.  Time will tell whether it worked or not.
My kitchen appears to be a working laboratory for ginger beer plants all at one stage or another, and [...]

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all those who are celebrating.  I hope its been fun and enjoyable.

We have been busy most of the day outside. The sun has been shining and it was just lovely to be able to get out and do some the little jobs that have been on the back boiler for a while.
I have planted out lots of the perennial geraniums that were grown by my late [...]

Really enjoyed the simplicity of making my own paper pots today using the ‘Paper Potter’ from www.netherwalloptrading.com for the seeds I have been sowing today. Have now put the seeds in for an ever growing list, the extras are
Chives
Red sorrel
Chili
Carrot (nantes)
Tomato (country taste) beef steak
Celery (lathorn) self blanching and string less
Lovage
There are several others also, [...]

This morning I sowed the seeds for the chives which I will plant at the base of all the apple trees. They are good companions and the chives help the apple trees with apple scab and aphids as seen on The Romany Rest blog.  As we have four trees and also a cordon of fourteen [...]

Getting the vegetable beds prepared is always done as and when the weather allows, and although we have had some rain and snow they are not too wet for digging.
I have also been trying to sort out the old compost heap.  I really would like to make it into a raised bed. At the moment [...]