What did you do in the garden today?

[gtaus]

My grandfather was a beekeeper, I grew up with natural honey and can’t stand the taste of other honey.

I think I can understand. I'm 63 years old and have always had the store-bought honey like in the Honey Bear type containers. I was excited to try some natural honey with all the health benefits you mentioned, but the taste is just not the same. Maybe I just prefer what I am used to eating.

This morning I made myself some hot Quick Oats. I always put some honey on them. I was thinking maybe I could use a spoonful of natural honey and top it off with some squirts from the Honey Bear to sweeten it up a bit. Best of both options? Still get the health benefits from the natural honey but get the sweeter taste of the Honey Bear honey?

 

[akroberts1085]

I can't stand honey. I have tried to use it in cooking but I always know that it's so sweet I can't get beyond the taste of it. I think if I had my own bees making my honey I would like it.

 

[gtaus]

I can't stand honey. I have tried to use it in cooking but I always know that it's so sweet I can't get beyond the taste of it. I think if I had my own bees making my honey I would like it.

Well, you might like the natural honey I bought at the Amish open market. It's not very sweet compared to the Honey Bear honey I normally get at the big box stores.

 

[akroberts1085]

Well, you might like the natural honey I bought at the Amish open market. It's not very sweet compared to the Honey Bear honey I normally get at the big box stores.

I have been thinking about buying some natural honey to try I just haven't been able to get to the local farmers market here.

 

[TJAnonymous]

YEP. That damnable thing!
120 gallons, no heater, no insulation fiberglass so water got cold really fast.
The jets were nice BUT it was so high up and far into that box that you had to be 6 feet tall just to get in. Getting out was dangerous with wet and tile. I've used it twice in 10 years. DH never used it. We kept the dirty laundry hampers in there. LOL.
TOTAL waste of water and space.

My DH does not take baths. Ever. He's grossed out by the thought. I, on the other hand, enjoy a hot bubble bath on a cold night. We have a legacy jacuzzi soaking tub. I will open the window above the tub, light some candles, turn off the lights, and just relax with some light music. I don't stay in very long... Maybe 20 min. But it's my favorite way to unwind in the winter...

 

[akroberts1085]

My DH does not take baths. Ever. He's grossed out by the thought. I, on the other hand, enjoy a hot bubble bath on a cold night. We have a legacy jacuzzi soaking tub. I will open the window above the tub, light some candles, turn off the lights, and just relax with some light music. I don't stay in very long... Maybe 20 min. But it's my favorite way to unwind in the winter...

Our shower had broke once before and my husband insisted on taking baths I was so not happy. I always felt like I had no way to get clean. He enjoys taking baths I think it's nasty. When I broke my ankle I had to sit on a chair to take a shower and I still felt like I wasn't clean

 

[CNJ]

I took an air layering bag off my mango tree to see if the sphagnum peat moss was dry after two weeks. It was still moist, but not as moist as when I first put it on. I mixed pro mix with it and filled another sandwich bag and put it back on. I see roots forming, so I'll leave it alone for 2 more months.

 

[WthrLady]

My grandfather was a beekeeper, I grew up with natural honey and can’t stand the taste of other honey. I am used to honey being so hard you need a pick to get some cheap honey is produced by feeding bees sugar, and they incorporate it into the honey, also, if honey is heated over a certain temperature to make it runny, most health benefits are lost , I get goosebumps just looking at those „honeybear“ packages theres are also many kinds of different honeys like clover, chestnut, heath, cornflower and so on, and they all taste different and have different colors too

I love ice honey atm

 

[Dadanga]

LOL, all this talk about honey makes me feel bad about not getting some from the local beekeeper. I've never really been big into honey. I don't know why. Never really eat breakfast. About the only time I'm big into honey is when it's honey chicken; then we're talking!

I have a feeling the tomatoes that are turning before anything else are the orange variety. I just have to remember which. Also the royal velvets are starting to bud up. The only thing I'm miserable about is that I didn't plant more. I could only imagine how the giant russians would of gone but I think the seeds were exposed to the elements too much and weren't viable.

I should just order a sunflower mix and go crazy with some blood and bone, maybe some more borage. Borage in different colors would be fun. The kratkies are doing well. Still no tomatoes. I don't know how they're going to go with the limited sunlight hours they get in the patio. The big cluster of lettuce in the blue kratky bit the bullet. Maybe just overcrowding. Oh well. Part of me wants to try Sunflower kratkies. I don't know how much a sunflower drinks though or how extensive their root system can be. I like how the royal velvets are small and short and aren't towering.

 

[igorsMistress]

All Honey is NOT the same!

I try to grow lots of the food we eat. I'm getting better at it. However, Dear Wife would go into the Amish open market on Saturday morning and pick up some great produce that either we don't grow, or just failed for us this year. Their produce always looks better than what we see at the big box stores. I don't know how the cost of the Amish produce compares to the big box stores, but it is nice paying the farmer directly.

Well, the Amish market had natural honey canned in quart jars for $12.75. That comes out to $0.39 per ounce. Normally, I buy little Honey Bears at the Dollar Tree and pay $1.25 for 1-3/4 ounces, or about $0.71 per ounce. Dear Wife and I decided to buy a quart jar, thinking that natural honey should have more health benefits for us, and it was even less expensive buying it in a big jar.

The honey we got is unprocessed. It's like spreading jam or jelly on your food, and if the food is warm enough, the natural honey will melt. I was OK with that, although the store-bought honey is always liquid, and you just squeeze the Honey Bear and the honey pours out.

Well, turns out that I really don't care for the taste of the natural honey. The store-bought honey is just a lot sweeter to me. Maybe I just prefer the store-bought honey taste because that is what I've always had? I have pretty much decided not to buy another jar of natural honey because of the taste. But maybe there is something I am doing wrong with the natural honey? Do you have to heat it up or something else to make it sweeter?

I prefer to eat most natural foods over processed foods. So, I was thinking the natural honey would be even better. Having said that, if I don't like the taste of any food, then it's just not worth it for me to buy. Case in point, I only buy name brand ketchup because the off-brand ketchups just don't taste as good to me. But most food items we are fine with the less expensive store brand food and save lots of money compared to buying the name brand item.

I can't believe that I would rather pay twice the price for artificial honey in a Honey Bear than buying natural honey with great health benefits as about half the cost! Somebody help me, please!

It’s better for you even though it doesn’t taste as sweet. The reason store honey is so much sweeter is because it is often cut with sugar. Processed sugar.