Homemade Yoghurt (aka Yogurt)

Ingredients: milk, bacterial culture.

How? Heat Milk to simmer (+/- 80 C), let cool to +/- 40 C, add bacteria (from yoghurt and/or pro-biotic tablets), place in oven for 24 hr with oven light on such that temperature is around 40 C (usually half-way across oven from oven light in ours). Enjoy!

Cost is generally one-third or a quarter of buying yoghurt in store.

Early July 2008

The June rainy season winds down and with more sun the plants begin to grow noticeably more. All have been well taken care of while on vacation by neighbours and friends.

Kale, broccoli, cauliflower, volunteer sunflowers from birdseed (not sure what kind yet. Any guesses?).


Norland Potatoes.


Volunteer sunflowers in compost pile.

Tomatoes, peas, carrots, swiss chard.

Rhubard showing some hail damage. Several hail storms with pea-sized hail this year, but most plants survived and recovered. Also purple beans (Royal Burgundy) around rhubard, snow peas and broccoli.

Late July 2008

Unknown tree (above and below). Guesses?

Uknown weed? Guesses?