Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Mickey's Blog
Does it get any better than this???!!! Nothing, but nothing, tastes like a home-grown tomato!
Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Mickey's Blog
It may be stinking hot, but during the course of the last couple of weeks, there has been no choice but to cut back the garden hard. I do it each year (one day a week with Brian, the weekends on my own). Though physically, it’s not a job I look forward to; and...
Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Mickey's Blog
Those who have discovered me at a rare market, a seed swap, attended a Kitchen Gardening Day or perhaps one of my Garden Club or other talks will be familiar with this sight: indeed, you may even have your very own spectacular heads of leaf Amaranth, from which to...
Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Mickey's Blog
Whilst summer sees a great flush of fresh produce…. beans, corn, tomatoes, potatoes, zucchinis & aubergines coming in thick & fast, it’s also time to store the onions: pulled between Christmas & New Year, they’ve been drying on a wire rack in...
Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Mickey's Blog
Simple sunflowers….I place them high on my list of favourite things! However I know full well, that they are to sulphur-crested cockatoos, like a red rag to a bull! Which is why I can’t have them in the Kitchen Garden where I would so love to sow their seed,...
Sep 19, 2021 | Kitchen Gardening, Mickey's Blog
A quick harvest treat on return from our beach days! Not for the first time, I recognised while away, that I find it near impossible to prepare dinner without my garden on hand, from where to pluck ingredients on the spur of the moment! The first Black...
