Day one of giving kitchen gardening a higher priority was slow to eventuate. Life has this great habit of getting in the way. I either over did it in the garden and landed in a crumpled heap on the sofa, willing myself to get back up again some time before dark. It is the week leading up to being officially safe to plant the garden … Continue reading Fennel and Celeriac are great friends
Sometimes in the garden you have to make difficult choices. Take my fennel for example. It seems to be like some kind of crop in my garden where it doesn’t seem to want to stop. New bulbs seem to form around the base from plants sown last spring. I’m tempted to leave it there to see what it will do, but it has a place … Continue reading Out with the Old … In with the New
Brief: Show us something you cherish, and get up close. I love my trug and treasure it so much I went out and bought another one. You see, not only is it a cool gardening item, possibly on the luxury list, and not a necessary item. You can harvest your crop into a bag or plastic bowl, however it seems like a bit of an … Continue reading PHOTO DAY 16: Treasure
And I have never longed for a date to change on a calendar so much. I want to just put this horrible spring behind us and never speak of it again! Well maybe I will. It can be referred to as “That spring” or ‘The Dreadful Spring of 2014” forever burnt into our memories as being so dire I went as far as to put … Continue reading This time next week I’ll be in a completely different season.
We have had storm after storm after storm. When it wasn’t raining, it was blowing a gale and either way gardening was impossible. Add that to being knocked out for a good three weeks to ill health and the garden is way behind schedule. The last frost day is in about ten days and I am not ready! Whose idea was it to have such … Continue reading This has been the spring of my discontent.
Don’t panic, this isn’t going to be a story of dread, terror and frenzied destruction. Dawn broke this morning on to what I hope will be a perfect day as this day is special. It’s not any old day – it’s the first day of spring. The seasons have changed and this is the season of new life. It’s the season that gardening can begin … Continue reading Goats love Kale.
