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Before you eat your next fig, try this! Cut a ripe fig in half and gently rub the two sides together for a few seconds. It makes the flesh softer, tastier & creamier. I learnt this when I was a toddler from the husband of my caretaker and since then I always do this! Science? Not really Delicious? Absolutely 🤩 #figs #fruits #gardening #fyp

If your Mint is flowering 🌿 Don’t waste these flowers 💚 When mint starts flowering, you can cut back the flowering stems to enable the plant to grow new leaves and to branch out. Removing the flowering stems helps the plant focus its energy on producing fresh, flavorful leaves. But those fragrant flowers deserve a second life! 🌿Sprinkle them over salads
🌿Infuse them into refreshing summer drinks
🌿Or dry the stems to preserve them and enjoy a delicious homemade herbal tea all year long. Green Lo

Your basil is flowering? Don’t waste those flowers 🌱💚 Basil flowers are completely edible and they’re packed with flavor. Use them fresh in salads, pasta or as a garnish, infuse them in oil or vinegar, or simply let them dry and collect the seeds for next season. And if you want your basil to keep producing lots of leaves, pinch the flowers regularly. Green Love to you! 💚 #basil #flowers #gardening

Fruit flies trap using your leftover lemon peels 🍋 It works amazing! Green Love 💚

Fig Leaf Syrup 💚🌿 This is so good, so don’t waste the leaves 🤩 #gardening #fig

Make your own vegetable Cucumber Boat 🤩🌿 A fresh and easy cooking recipe for Summer! Green Love to you 💚 Thank you! @Caterina Iemmolo

Stop waiting for your tomatoes to turn fully red before harvesting 🌿 Once a tomato starts changing from green to orange or slithlt red, it has already received almost everything it needs from the plant. Harvesting at this stage often reduces waste 🍅 It reduces the risk of cracking. 🐛 It keeps birds, insects and other animals from getting to them first. 🌧️ It helps avoid damage from rain, heat and disease. ☀️ They will continue ripening beautifully indoors at room temperature. Just don’t put them

Make these Crispy zucchini chips 🌿 Perfect summer snack with its cashew nuts cream! 🤩 If your garden is overflowing with zucchinis, this is one of my favourite ways to preserve and enjoy them. Simply slice your zucchinis very thin, season them with olive oil, lemon and your favourite herbs, then dehydrate them at 60°C (140°F) until perfectly crisp. To make them even better, we paired them with a creamy homemade cashew dip. Blend soaked cashews with lemon juice, water, olive oil, salt and your fa

Grow some Zinnias 🌿 Easy to grow, beautiful and beneficial for butterflies and pollinators in your garden! Green Love to you 💚 #garden #flowers

Stop letting your zucchini sprawl on the ground. Growing zucchini vertically saves space in your garden, improves airflow, reduces fungal diseases, keeps fruits cleaner, and makes harvesting much easier. Just make sure to tie the stem loosely as it grows and prune the older lower leaves regularly to keep the plant healthy. You can also add sticky tapes around stake & stem to protect from ants. Have you ever tried growing zucchini vertically? Green love to you #gardening101 #vegetables

Have you ever seen a caper plant? 🌿 It produces these beautiful flowers but also the capers. And It actually grows on rocks without any watering where most plants would not survive The capers are the small unopened buds, and they will bloom into this magnificent flowers, which will then produce the bigger caper fruit. You can harvest the small unopened capers by hand then cut the stem They need to be cured in salt, you can place them in a jar with layers of salt. When the jar is full, seal it a

Your supermarket basil is always dying? 🌱💚 I call it « The Basil Trauma » and I used this ironic naming in my last two books, to picture that these kind of « fails » can make you think that you do not have a green thumb, as you can’t keep alive a healthy thriving plant. BUT…This has nothing to do with you! This supermarket Basil is simply not designed to grow further, it has way too many plants for such a small pot, it is absolutely normal that it can’t grow more and enventually dies. How to he