Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
Wow….the little indicator tells me this is blog post no. 500!!! Woohoo! Whoever would have thought? What a lovely post for that milestone to coincide with: the Great Glenmore Garlic Harvest of 2014! I decided late on Sunday afternoon that the task of digging...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
It was with a slight sense of fear & trepidation that I presented, for the first time, our very own olives at last Saturday’s Kitchen Gardening lunch! Not that it’s the first time I’ve ever tried to ‘keep’ our harvest before, but...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
I just thought I’d follow up after my last post…..we do indeed now have multi-ruffled pretty poppies and many a spectacular plump bud ready to explode into flower! I must confess though, that I find this loose-petalled beauty to be far more exquisite and...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
Luckily I captured the first poppy before the weather set in (the poor thing is rain-sodden now). Such fleeting beauty is rarely repeated. Some open as single petals while others are deeply ruffled. If you can get hold of a copy of the October issue of Country...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
Luckily I captured the first poppy before the weather set in. The poor thing is rain-sodden now. Such fleeting beauty that is rarely repeated. Some open as single petals while others are deeply ruffled. If you can get hold of a copy of the October issue of Country...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
Spring is galloping away at quite a pace and I’m very aware that I haven’t updated these posts as regularly as I’d like (save yesterday’s Bird Cow Tree post!)…so I thought I’d write a a very little review for you, just a hint,...
