MICKEY’S BLOG
In the days before Instagram, Mickey kept a regular blog of snippets from Glenmore House.
You may enjoy looking back through them!
Autumn colours….
As the leaves begin to tarnish and deepen with autumn colour, the garden resembles India Flint's 'random windfall cloth'. There are only 3 spaces left for the Botanical Alchemy Workshop on Wednesday June 5. Be quick before its too...
Raspberry intoxication….
There may not be vast quantities, but this week has seen me collecting a ramekin dish each day, of the most plump, perfect, delicious raspberries you can imagine! Each one to be savoured on its own....and the smell of even just a few is almost...
Dark beauties….
A collection of dark beauties filled the day's basket: a big handful of the mustard leaf red elk, rosemary, thyme, a dozen or so black cherry tomatoes and a bunch of leaf amaranth - this last one the result of impulsive weeding/foraging while there was still just...
Faded vernacular….
Rather funny to find myself pottering about buildings of historic significance twice in the same week, but I do enjoy early Australian colonial buildings - and this collection, at Belgenny Farm (not far from here), has some of the earliest. While I was...
Historic salvage….
I thoroughly enjoyed a wander about Throsby Park at Moss Vale on Sunday - yet another excellent restoration project by the dynamic Historic Houses Trust. While the house itself is pretty as a gingerbread, I always seem to be besotted with the domestic workings of...
All the fun of the fair….
The Collector's Plant Fair: it's on again tomorrow at The Hawkesbury Race Club, Clarendon (near Richmond) - no more getting bogged at Bilpin! www.collectorsplantfair.com
Time to plant….
It seems only yesterday that the 'guild' side of the Kitchen Garden closely resembled a wild flower meadow (above). But fast forward almost two months and the majority of these plants have expired, I've collected their seed and carried out a huge overhaul. While...
Jerusalem artichoke season….
It's not quite a month since I snapped this first happy, daisy-like bloom on the very top of the 2.5metre-plus stalks of the Jerusalem artichokes (from the kitchen verandah, most are just above eye level). One single flower became many, 'til a sea of yellow was...
Compost delight….
It may have taken me a few years to work out initially, but once I got the process sorted, our own compost has become better with each batch. It never ceases to amaze me that we can turn a heap of garden waste in every shape, size and texture (above); into the...
Post Easter harvest….
What a few days! Most of the Kitchen Garden underwent a complete overhaul during Easter....from gentle pruning to ripping out - making way for the season ahead. On this 'cusp of season', we went from rampant summer bliss to something unattractive &...
Easter bean…
Whilst there was an Easter Egg hunt in the garden.....the greatest delight of all was opening the big fat pod of a scarlet runner to reveal this shiny pink bean inside - heaven!
Lettuce be content…
Now while some may be looking for chocolate, these few days of Easter, I'll be quite content with the folds of this beautiful butter lettuce, and an odd leaf pulled from the burgeoning raddichios - like the one below, captured in early morning sun...
Autumn leaf mix…
The leaves have returned! After a brief absence, they're back in abundance, complete with nasturtium flowers to colour our autumn salads...
Raspberry intoxication….
There may not be vast quantities, but this week has seen me collecting a ramekin dish each day, of the most plump, perfect, delicious raspberries you can imagine! Each one to be savoured on its own....and the smell of even just a few is almost...
Black bamboo…
In preparation for today's Kitchen Gardening Day, we collected a huge bundle of bamboo from dear friends during the week. Each rod has since been clipped of its foliage and sorted for making structures for our autumn/winter sowings of peas and broad beans. Thank...
Figs for morning tea….
I thought it really too much for anyone's good diet to enjoy cake at morning tea when baking cakes was the agenda for the day....with the inevitable result of many cakes on hand for afternoon tea! And so the figs presented themselves as a totally scrummy (as well...
Home to roses….
and flowering ginger, buckets of tomatoes, fat zucchinis, ripe capsicums, late cucumbers, hefty aubergines & plump figs - all the ingredients needed for last Friday's lunch at Baking Cakes! (And we were only gone for the blink of an...