Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
They’ve been flowering for weeks now! I so look forward to their late winter / early spring blooms each year. The utter simplicity of their open, blotched faces as they nod in the breeze. Whether basking in the heat of the drystone wall beneath the flowering...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
The very first jasmine flowers of the season! I can’t wait ’til there are long trails of them to bring inside for their heady, sweet scent, (though I think the vine scrambling over the pantry wall looks more attractive when in bud rather than full...
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, The Garden
The big aloe we discovered in the creek a few years ago (and subsequently moved into position at Eagles Hut, at the back gate), is now well & truly settled in….and, by the look of things, really quite content. I was delighted to find it covered in buds a...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden, Kitchen Gardening
I must admit, I can’t exactly call this a glut! But as you can see, I’ve produced TWO sweet potatoes (and that’s two more than I’ve ever produced before!). I’m not sure why I’ve never thought to grow them, though on reflection, I...
Sep 19, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
This unexpected friend sprouted just outside the kitchen a couple of months ago and I took to weeding around him, on the off-chance that he might become handsome! I didn’t plant him and wonder if he arrived in the loads of horse poo I shovelled into the bed in...
