#gardentooting — Public Fediverse posts

This is my first ever summer solstice this high up north! We're more north than Helsinki area, but not Lapland yet.

It's not been dark here in months. The kind of twilight where the sun has set but it's still light enough to read and there are no stars visible just goes on for hours and hours until the sun rises again. The white nights.

This is the middle of the night, 1am summer time. I've lived through darker days in germany.

#gardentooting #nature #juhannus #finland #WhiteNight #northern #SummerSolstice #solstice

today, I be do EXPERIMENT from garden:

I be pluck some stinging nettle tops and small leaf, and make food from! (I also dig out as much of root as can, because is part of garden we want be able walk barefoot. is soooooo many root! very tenacious plant)

I not put picture of food, because look ugly. but taste good! 😋🍃

I wash nettle, then boil a bit. now no longer sting!
then I cut into small bits. if have blender, I be blend, but not have. I add salt, pepper, garlic powder, lots oil and little lemon juice (the cheap one from plastic lemon). I also add crushed sunflower seeds. I use mortar and pestle, because not have no blender. but it ok, it more work, but I be like have some small crunchy bit still. like crunchy peanut butter, but sunflower!

is be like pesto, only be differ. I be eat together of pasta.

is very nommy! Nam! 😋

#gardentooting #nettles #StinginNettles #perennials #wildFood #WildFoods #WeedEating