Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Seasonal Cooking
Sadly we’re down to the last half dozen of the season’s onions (they’ve been stored in a cool, dark room since December). The papery skins of these home-grown ones are still a multitude of colour and delicate, textured layers, but I fear...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
The climbing peas are just beginning to form their tightly-furled, crunchy tips and to produce their very first buds and flowers of the season. Do be careful when propping up or tying in their fragile stems or you will easily snap them off, like I did with these ones...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening, Seasonal Cooking
The haul from the self-seeded tomatoes continues to fill a baking-sheet for oven-drying once a week. Not bad for mid-winter!
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
At last the rain has moved on! Not that I minded at all – a proper wet, winter week for gum boots to slosh through puddles outside, and roaring fires in. We’re left with full dams which makes me the happiest I can possibly be, and Abraham Darby is still...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
I just thought I’d give you an update on the great pace of growth in the winter Kitchen Garden – there’s nothing dormant here! The segment shown in the image above was nothing but bare compost, just a very short while ago, and I’m simply...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, Kitchen Gardening
Those of you who have attended Kitchen Gardening Days at Glenmore, know well of my passion for all garden structures, preferably made of wonky prunings from the garden here (or spectacular black bamboo from my friends nearby). Be they tunnels, wig-wams, tee-pees or...
