Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Out & About
The delights of vegetable still life await at Charlotte Thodey’s exhibition ‘From the Artist’s Table’, at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens, 2 – 11 August. Following her successful exhibition at the Chateau de Villandry in France last...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
Late morning saw me thinning fennel seedlings (perhaps I was a little over-generous with this particular sowing!). But as the task was completed just before lunch, it seemed a waste to toss these fine seedlings into the compost, so I whipped up a Clementine &...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
As a rule, I collect veg for dinner last thing in the evening – I rarely think about what to eat much beforehand! But with a bleak sky threatening and spots of rain, a dash to the washing line was followed by a quick harvest of crinkly chard, broccoli stalks, a...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
I do apologise to those of you who are regular readers, for my lack of posts this last week or so. It’s just that time of the year – either paperwork or pruning, so there’s not a great deal to report. I wish I was in the garden more, as I’m...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
The result of a busy few days, and the beginnings of next season’s compost are well underway….
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog
A few weeks ago, we got to talking about how much the three stone pines we planted as tube stock about twenty years ago, had grown. This led us to querying whether perhaps they might be producing pine nuts yet? A little exploratory investigation yielded just a few...
