Gardening with ME: May garden update
In recent posts I’ve mainly been blogging about gardens to visit and Spoonie Veg, so I thought it was time to do a general update of the garden. Kitchen garden In my small kitchen garden I’ve kept to my decision …
Garden visit: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
After visiting Logan Botanic Garden in Dumfries and Galloway, it was quite a change to a week later visit the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The weather was quite different for a start. At some times it was hard to tell …
Palace of Holyroodhouse: a very personal revisit
September 1988. Under grey skies in Edinburgh, 20 year old me stood in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, next to the plaque on the floor telling visitors that this was where David Rizzio, Mary Queen of Scots’ Italian Secretary, was murdered …
Garden visit: Logan Botanic Gardens
I’ve long wished to visit Logan Botanic Garden, situated on the most southerly point of Scotland. Thanks to the gulf stream it has a warmer climate than one might expect this far north in the UK, and therefore plants from …
Red Squirrel!
Red Squirrel! Can you tell I’m excited?! Yes, we saw red squirrels today. Well, one red squirrel, lots of times. This was at the Kirroughtree Visitors Centre in the Galloway Forest Park, just up the road from our holiday cottage. …
Sorrel and mushroom pasta
Sorrel is one of my favourite vegetables. It’s a perennial vegetable, which means in hard winters it will come back the following Spring, and in mild winters as the one past has been, you can continue to harvest, though less …
About Gwenfar’s Garden recipes
On Mastodon (the excellent alternative to Twitter), a lot of us share recipes, particularly under the #FediKitchen* hashtag, including myself. Since I write them out for the Fediverse*, I figured I’d start adding them here too. A large majority of …
Spoonie Veg: growing in raised beds and containers
After publishing my introduction to Spoonie Veg post, I received some really interesting and helpful perspectives from readers, both on my blog and in Twitter conversations. One thing that came out of this was that I realised a post on …