Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
I so love these colours of winter, when much is bare save green hedges and evergreen herbs, like rosemary and thyme, with the odd spike of lavender coming to the fore. Purple podded peas and deeply textured blue/green Tuscan kale are potent examples and make for...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
I sometimes wonder if I grow this group of frost loving winter veg to eat, or for their decorative appeal! I do know I like to keep their deeply veined, exquisite leaves of blue/grey and purple closely planted together to best enjoy the effect, but now I can’t...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Delightful Discoveries
For those of you who may….(perhaps!) be interested…..Richard Unsworth has written a delightful article about our garden at Glenmore in the August/September issue of Belle magazine, out now…. A big thank you to Richard for his interest in our Glenmore...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
He’s running so late this year but finally….he crept in this morning, leaving patches of crispy white in the Kitchen Garden, while blanketing the lower paddocks. I was rather late with my camera (too cold for my poor fingers out there!), but I do love the...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
Now there’s a sight I like to see on a winter morning…a colander full of oranges on the kitchen window sill! Oranges take forever to ripen, but as a rule, when all is well, we have our own fruit from July through to December. These are Washington...
Sep 20, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
A chance comment (as I was buying a jar of delicious raw honey at the local market on Saturday morning) had me scratching my head (well, mentally at least), as I continued to wander, crossing items off my list. ‘I have to feed my bees honey at this time of year...
