After pruning the vines we find ourselves with too many pruned vine stems. For some people these vine branches are like “trash” and they burn them at the first opportunity. To me, these vine stems are a great tinder for the wood stove. See what process I follow to create bundles and packages. Making bundles […]
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Disinfection and cleaning in the home should be done daily as one of our protection measures against COVID-19 and as one of our contributions to making it harder to spread. The ideal products for cleaning and disinfecting surfaces inside the home, and our hands, are the certified disinfecting products and wipes for this use that
August is the season when the grape picking begins in most areas of Greece. In many areas, it extends into September or even October depending on the variety. This is the time to enjoy the fruits of the vine. It is the time when the efforts of the year will be justified. The vine that
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My recipe for Greek sourdough home-made bread. I have been following this recipe for many years and the bread is always delicious. Ingredients Flour from Thessaly, water, sourdough, salt. Recipe I dilute the sourdough with cold water. About 3 glasses of water. (My cousin sent me the sourdough from Komotini, Greece. I have been keeping
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If there is one time of the year when the house should have beautiful and sweet smells, it is Christmas! I followed Stelios Parliaros’ recipe for melomakarona to make melomakarona and make the house smell like Christmas! What are Greek Melomakarona? I copy from Wikipedia’s Melomakarono. “The melomakarono (Greek: μελομακάρονο plural: μελομακάρονα, melomakarona) is an
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In this article I describe how I make homemade olive oil in Greece. The whole process from picking the olives to the olive mill and making homemade olive oil. I hope you find it useful, answer your questions and encourage you to make your own homemade olive oil. You will find that it’s taste is
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Today I will tell you how I make tasty edible homemade olives. At the back of the property, there is a relatively small olive tree. It grows practically by itself without any care. Her olives ripened earlier than the others. This year (I know I’m unforgiving), I looked up and noticed them. Big, fleshy, luscious,
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I have gathered 7 Greek recipes to make homemade olives. Greece, among other great things, is well known for the quality of its olive oil and edible olives. As you can guess there are so many Greek recipes for edible olives. Such as Kalamata’s olives, xidates, throumbes, tsakistes, pikantikes, xaraktes, stafidotes olives. Not many years
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A recipe for home made grape molasses (petimezi). Easily make petimezi (grape molasses) from your grape must. Petimezi can be stored for years in the refrigerator and can be used in many recipes as a sweetener and to add strong taste. Petimezi, or grape molasses, is the dark thick sweet liquid that results from boiling
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Compost bin costing less than 6 Euros? Almost free of charge. Is it possible? Yes it is, if you do it yourself (DIY) using cheap materials! Compost is an ideal source of nutrients for our plants and vegetables. If you want to make your own compost, you will find a variety of compost bins on
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How do I make homemade rustic bread? A simple recipe to make your own homemade rustic bread. All you need is flour, yeast, water and salt. Today I will show you how to make your own homemade delicious rustic bread. It’s so simple, you’ll definitely give it a try. You will inevitably make the comparisons
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Today I will share with a method to save tomato seeds for next year. I learned this method from a local elder producer of Santorini’s tomatoes in Santorini, Greece. I use this method every year to save tomato seeds for the next year planting. One of the secrets to save strong and healthy tomato seeds
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With these recipes we can make 7 eco-friendly insecticides with materials we all have at home or can easily get. We use red cayenne pepper, leaves from aromatic plants, cottonseed oil, garlic, tomato leaves, diatomaceous earth and alcohol. The most chemical of all the ingredients, is dishwashing liquid! Start using these eco-friendly insecticides at the
You will learn how to make a simple stink bugs trap, using simple instructions. Stink bugs are small shield-shaped insects that live by sucking the juices from your plants. They are called stink bugs because they have a very bad smell if you step on or disturb them. They are difficult to deal with because
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I build a raised garden of 1 square meter in Greece, with simple materials and test the possibility of growing in this garden. Even if you have enough natural space to grow, the idea of growing in a controlled environment with the ideal soil is appealing. This artificial garden is ideal for growing in the
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Peas are a climbing, expansive plant that holds on to anything it can find to grow and climb. It is important to provide support for peas. It is only in our best interest as gardeners to give it supports from which it will grab. From time to time I have tried various methods for supporting
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Have you ever made cement by hand? Did you have a hard time? So did I. I had a lot of trouble because I was mixing the ingredients (gravel, sand, cement, water) the wrong way. This video shows an easy way to make cement in a limited space without making a mess. This cement making
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As the first tomatoes began to ripen for this year, I encountered a particular problem. Birds were tasting them before I did. I found the tomatoes blushing, pecked by birds. So I made an original scarecrow in the shape of a bird. To deal with the problem, I came up with the following solution: I
How can tomatoes be supported with reeds? This year’s production in the garden is abundant. Tomatoes, peppers, zucchinis and soon eggplants. This year I listened to the advice of Sofianos, my agronomist friend, and bought seedlings of tomato seedlings of the “Acorn” variety. As Sofianos predicted, the production is abundant and without problems. Bunches of
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The need to make a growing lamp for the seed starter. In the past few days, I started setting up the seedbeds for the new season. Because of the cold weather when we start the seedlings for the spring season, we necessarily have to have them in an enclosed and warm space like a room.
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