Yesterday I wrote an intro to my experiences experimenting with lentil flour. Today the pizza recipe, start to finish, roughly 20 minutes. 1/2 cup lentil flour 1/4 cup H2O 1/4 tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder 3/4 cup spaghetti sauce reduced in half Cheese to cover Mix flour, salt, baking powder together Add water, mix…
Cooking with Lentil Flour
I’ve never met a lentil dish I liked – until I started experimenting with lentil flour. I have issues with digesting gluten and food gums (carrageenan, guar, agar agar etc…). There are plenty of gluten free flour mixes, and products out there, but most of them have gums to replace the gluten, and are fairly…
Serrano Peppers – Round 3
Also see the previous Serrano post: Overwintering Serrano Peppers I have so many Serrano Peppers in my freezer, I may have to start giving some away, and the plant just keeps making more (~160 fully grown and counting). Triggering the new growth is not automatic, once the plant is done producing its fruit, you have…
Gaviota & Red Sails Lettuce, Kratky Method
I am really happy I started growing lettuce with the Kratky method. ย I really like good, clean lettuce. You just can’t get it from a store anymore. What you can get from a store is “triple washed”, bruised, sad ย looking, sometimes decaying leaves. No matter how hard I examine a bag or container in the…
Kratky Method Lettuce Update
Three months ago I first posted about doing Kratky on a small scale of one container per plant. A short time afterwards I got a whitefly infestation in my indoor garden, and had to cut everything down. It was a shame, since the lettuce plants were just starting to get big. It’s been six weeks…
Overwintering Serrano Peppers
I started this plant late in the season from seed – September. Despite the late start, it produced 80 2.5″ pods, which is great. Then in December my indoor garden was infested with whiteflies, and they loved the serrano plant. There was no way to salvage the plants, so I harvested what I could, moved…
Small Scale Kratky Method Hydroponics
I tried to grow lettuce in soil in my indoor garden once, and failed miserably. I haven’t tried again since. It seemed a waste to dedicate a full pot for such little return, and it was easier to buy. Bulkier greens like Swiss Chard are an exception as they are great for continuous harvest, and…
Growing Tomatoes in San Francisco & Disease Control – Update
This year, I got a late start to starting the tomatoes. I was optimistic about the grafting, but poor germination with the rootstock and uneven stem sizes lead to failed grafts, and I had to start over a couple of times, eventually deciding to grow the traditional way, from seed, in July. Azoychka, which had…
Blue Beauty Tomatoes in San Francisco
I’m going to preface this by saying, this not so positive review is more than likely from the environment these tomatoes were grown in. The balcony where it continues to grow (yes, even in the middle of October) is full of sun, but there are frequent heavy winds bringing very chilly, moisture laden air. Some…
Soil Moisture Monitoring with Raspberry Pi
As described in previous posts, I have a self-watering setup with an extended reservoir. The only problem that has come up is that after some time the supply lines become blocked with a biofilm. When that happens, the larger plants can quickly dry out, and any fruiting going on is affected, either by reduced flowers,…