Fertilizing, Fall Cocktails, and Houseplants
We’re celebrating fall with autumnal beverages, talking about applying fertilizer in the fall, and discussing cleaning up houseplants when you bring them back indoors.
:31 True or False: Winter is a good time to fertilize gardens.
4:38 Eat/Drink/Grow: Fall Cocktails and other garden or plant-based beverages.
17:58 The Plant Noob: Cleaning up houseplants when you bring them back inside. Repotting now? Cut back? Fertilize? Insects?
26:24 Love Letters and Questions: Liz asks about the show notes.
Recipe for the Kale-tini below. Find the recipe for Ellen’s cocktail here.
Kale-tini
For Two Cocktails
2 cups tightly packed kale
1 cup water
juice two limes
4 oz vodka or gin
1 Tbls agave syrup
The Process:
Cut enough kale into pieces to fill a 2-cup measure. Cover these pieces with water and place in a food processor or blender. Puree for a minute.
Strain the solids out of the pureed kale with a fine sieve, pressing with a spatula to get as much juice from the leaves as possible.
Squeeze the limes and add the lime juice, vodka, and agave syrup. Mix well or shake in a mason jar to combine. Pour into glasses over ice. Garnish with a small kale leaf.
These amaryllis bulbs needed weeding, dividing and repotting in a large container before they come into the house.