It’s raining plums in our front yard right now. Big, purple, juicy, sweet, delicious plums. The kind that burst when they hit you, leaving a magenta splodge, so you look like you are in the middle of a paintball game.
Author: Byddi Lee
What a Pickle!
Summer has arrived, bringing with it my first crop of cucumbers. Two cukes to be exact! But that’s enough for one jar of pickles. I’m hoping to get a glut so that I can pickle more than one jar at
It’s never that simple
There are many challenges in gardening, especially when you are gardening in a climate that is different to what you are used to. I like to try growing new things. I managed to get a sweet potato from the supermarket
Did my garden miss me as much as I missed it?
Judging by the growth spurt – no! Okay, so maybe it’s an illusion. I go out every day and peer closely at my plants to see if they have grown any in the last few hours – seriously mad, I
Parting is such sweet sorrow
Bunbeg Strand, County Donegal 6.30 am and the sun was splitting the sky while I drove down the road to Dublin airport. Tears were still dripping off my chin as I approached Newry. I could still picture my sister standing in
Believing in Belfast
I think that when you leave a place you remember it in your minds eye the way it was not when you last saw it, but when you first got to know the place. I moved to Belfast in 1987. I
Gardening in the old country.
It’s been so wet this week in Ireland that even the stone statues in my Mum’s garden are taking shelter! My Husband and I flew home last Friday, the day after the Master Gardener graduation. It’s only rained twice in
Master Gardener Graduation – the icing on the cake!
It struck the fear of God in me when my husband offered to carry the cake out to the car. Now, you may call that an overreaction, but you just have to see this cake! I’m not saying my husband
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Thyme for tea.
Inspired by a Master Gardener talk at Guadalupe Gardens, I went home in a foraging frame of mind. Joan, the speaker and also my mentor during Master Gardener training, had mentioned making herbal tea and I was eager to experiment.
Some ideas are better than others!
Yep, The hottest day of the year to date and of course what happens? My free wood chips arrived from my arborist pals at Andersons Tree Care. Thus, I arrived home today to a driveway full of aromatic, bug inviting