Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
The very first Jersulam artichoke flower makes its appearance….a few weeks late this year, thanks to the intense summer heatwave we experienced (and lack of rain of course). However….better late than never! The rest are in bud and set to burst at any...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
How we LOVE them!
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
Here is hope there will be fresh figs to eat at next weekend’s Kitchen Gardening Day! Heaven knows, I’ve been living on a diet of figs for the last couple of weeks, it would be terrific if we have a few at their very best on the day!
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
What a difference some rain makes! It’s been a tough season. Some of the locals say it’s one of the worst they’ve seen (which I find a bit surprising because we’ve been here 25 years and seen it pretty bad). This summer, I’ve been...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
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 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
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...
