Today’s guest post is from Veronica from Sleepless Nights. I am so glad to see a little neglect in her garden, because there is an awful lot in mine! Shameful neglect… whoops! A baby apple tree that we grew from seed. Hidden strawberry flowers. Mint hiding in the neglected bits. Someone let the cauliflower go […]
Things I Know… About Millepedes
With recent Autumn rain we are once again in the middle of millipede season. Here are some of the things I’ve learnt from battling against these nasty black creatures…. The kind of millipedes we have at Portuguese millipedes and they stink when you pick them up, squish them or when they die. They are feral […]
Delinquent Mothers
Life is frantic at the Pickle Farm today. I have a sick kid, a back yard full of mud and holes, Christmas presents half wrapped and chickens in my kitchen. Yes, chickens…. in my kitchen. Two of them. A black one and a white one. And no, they are not waiting to be roasted, they […]
Strawberry Rain.
The weather has been crazy here at the pickle farm this past few weeks. Torrents of rain (more rain in 24 hours that we had in a whole month this time last year) and then warm and sunny and then more rain… and more rain… then hot… and then more rain! Until recently we were […]
This Means War!
There is a small war being waged out in our garden. It’s me against the snails and slugs. Two weeks ago the Middle Boy and I planted out the seedlings that we’d lovingly coaxed into life on our kitchen window sill. There were zucchini, water melon, rock melon, tomato, beans, basil, dill, cucumber, pumpkin and […]
Wordless Weed-Day
I’m playing Wordless Wednesday at BabbleOn today!
Grand Garden Plans
August is fickle. It is definitely still winter here, but August tricks me with it’s sunny days. The sunny days confuse my brain into thinking spring has already come. It makes me want to put on shorts and go outside to dig in the garden. But if I were actually silly enough to break out […]
Tomatoes in May.
It’s gotten cold here. Not quite freeze your toes of when you get up to pee in the middle of the night for tenth time kind of cold… but cold enough to put the fire on every night and to watch the frost glittering in the sunshine on the way to school in the morning. […]