Container Garden Summer Update

Here's how my not-so-little container garden is doing....

April 2011

June 2011

Dulce de Leche Frozen Yogurt Sandwiches

I am a tiny bit obsessed with sweetened condensed milk dulce de leche.  It's easy and so so yummy!!  I originally found out how to make dulce de leche through the Ravenous Couple Cooking blog: http://www.theravenouscouple.com/.  They also posted a recipe for dulce de leche ice cream but since I am slightly lactose intolerant, ice cream usually doesn't sit well with me. :-(  BUT, I can eat frozen yogurt!! Even though there is a little cream or milk added to most froyo recipes, compared to the heavy cream and milk in ice cream, I can handle some frozen yogurt!

Back to Basics: Socks

As most of you all know, I have a little obsession with urban homesteading.  Starting a container garden on my balcony, composting with worms are all in the pursuit of living off the grid, knowing where my food comes from and being a little more self-sufficient. Beyond the gardening and composting, I feel it's also important to have some other basic skills like knitting!  I'm not the best knitter.  I hate math and anything to do with numbers (I'm probably one of the few Asians who can't do math) and knitting has a lot of math and counting to deal with, but it's a challenge and I like a challenge.

Tea with a side of Composting

For the last 3 or 4 months, I've been trying my hand at composting in a bucket.  I started with some left over worm castings with dead leaves in a little red bucket.  I added some dead vegetation when I started pruning my container garden, dirt and paper products.

Well, things were going well, at first, but then it rained a lot for days on end, the bucket started getting a little stinky and attracting flies/gnats.  So I added more dirt, mixed it a bit and added holes for drainage.  I ended up having to let things dry out a bit but continued to add clippings from my garden as plants either died or I killed- like my perillas :-(  So this is how it's looking now....