
Rocoto, Rocoto, Rocoto...
It sounds like an echo from Andean Mountains to the valleys and wolds of tropical Peru and Boliva. And also from my garden in the valley of the river Dyje, full of the Sun and a fresh air. Rocoto Gelbe Riesen is one of the biggest capsicums. At the picture we can see a fruit, a few days before its ripeness. Rocoto - yellow Gelbe Riesen, CAP 867 Orange, Ecuadorian Red Rocota (Capsicum Pubescens) crawls as a bush-rope, and growing with a prop it is a few meters high. It compri

Home-made lemonade, limo - healthy, cheap, attractive, refreshing, tasty ...
Blackberry lemonade In May, as always, it is typical to produce an elderflower syrup. bloom of black Elderflower Now In the summer heat, the cooling thoughts surrounded me when reading a book. I remembered the youth, the reading of "Ransome books" a homemade ginger lemonade that the heroes drank with such taste. Suddenly the idea came. How about trying other herbs? And what if it was made from the fruit? Literature, acquaintances, the Internet - it was a fast-paced gathering

Garden Nasturtium – beauty from Peru
Garden Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus) is an easy herb that attracts us when we are in every garden Tropaeolum has some of the tastiest and most beautiful flowers of various colours. As an excellent medicinal plant without adverse side effects, it grows and blooms tirelessly until the first frosts. Why do we do not grow it in gardens more often? Description: Decorative annual herb comes from homeland between Peru and Colombia, where it can reach a length of liana up to 5 m. The

Blackberries - great gift of our nature
Who from us does not know black forest berries when we were young? We tore them with courage and caution. But anyway, we were pricked and wrapped by sucker with an infinite number of pointed barbs. It did not bother us and every year we went for them again and again. Intuitively we felt that eating that fruits do our body good ... The blackberry (Latin – Rubus fruticosus, Greek – Batos, German – Brombeere, Czech – Ostružiník křovitý) is a bush, which grows on the edges of for

It is already August and chili peppers mature....
They mature, and it is always a great joy to each grower, who tastes, sniffs and tests from each variety, especially when it is newly grown pepper. Capsicum Baccatum cv. Pimenta Barro do Ribeiro - It is named after the name of the province in Brazil. It is sharply spicy, extremely profitable chilli pepper, which changes from purplish at the time of immaturity to dark red colour at the time of maturity. The shape of the fruit is plump, with the tip at the end. Capsicum Baccatu

Is it fruit or vegetable?
For the orange balls of superfood Cape gooseberry flower (Physalis peruviana), it does not matter.
They're so sweet, delicious, fragrant, healthy, and we can grow them in our garden. Cape Gooseberry, Inca berry, Goldenberry (Physalis peruviana), Spanish Uchuva, Uvilla, Aguaymanto comes from the foothills of the Peruvian Andes at a height of about 2000 m, where Indians had already eaten it in ancient times. The plant is sorted into groups of Solanaceae, like potatoes, tomato

Fairytale cheesecake decorated with roses and sage flowers
My granddaughter had a birthday. What kind of cake would be a little Princess's wish? She likes the classic fairy tale creatures (sleeping beauty, Alice in Wonderland, fairy fairies). Of the newer stories she loves Elsa from Frozen At that moment, the inspiration came. Preparing snow iced cake with ornament petals of edible flowers, with plenty of fresh soft fruit. At first, I had to pick the fruit such as raspberries, wild strawberries, cherries, gooseberries and josty from