Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Mickey's Blog
OK….so Brian (help in the garden once a week), spent some time in his youth working in the Riverland of South Australia, where sultanas and raisins dry on racks, under cover. Simple. So with some old wire from the shed (love wire, can never have enough); he...
Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Mickey's Blog
Wet weather saw us scurrying to cut open all remaining paper bags containing our precious grapes before some dreaded fungal disease set in… Where up ’til now, I’d been carefully plucking one bag at a time from the vine, now the whole lot came down in...
Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking, Mickey's Blog
Simple Sunday lunch….with chèvre, rye, basil, olive oil….this is why growing your own is sublime…
Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Mickey's Blog
Great bowls of figs!
Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Mickey's Blog
In my post of 20 December, titled ‘Festive Garlands’, I promised to report back on the progress of tying the grape bunches around our verandah into brown paper bags. Well….the result is (do I dare say it????…..) a mixed bag! While some are...
Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Mickey's Blog
Plenty of potatoes, but only one of the two girls laid today! The new Cabbage & Rose (mark IV by now) have been laying well, so I guess a day off here & there is only to be expected…
