Gwenfar's Garden and other musings
Notes on growing ornamentals and edibles, and musings on other matters that interest me.
If you grow hardneck garlic, you’ll end up with scapes in late Spring/early Summer (full info here). A simple way to preserve them is to freeze them, viz: Step 1: First, cut them up roughly. Step 2: Put them in …
Spoonie veg rating: 3 After garlic, I think Broad Beans are my favourite vegetable. Whilst it’s only a short season of cropping broad beans, those (approx) six weeks are just heavenly to me. There is something about freshly picked and …
Spoonie veg rating: 1 Garlic, my number one vegetable. I adore garlic and have been growing and saving my own for years. It’s wonderful in the kitchen, complementing so many dishes, and it is also very easy to grow. It’s …
Last Monday I was in tears feeling like ME has taken away so much from me and made my life so small. Then two things happened during the week that turned this around and gave me much joy. On Tuesday I …
Pot of Garlic with three cloves, back in May Back in May I mentioned that I was doing a small experiment with growing garlic in containers. This is a write up of the results of the experiment. A post for …
Harvests include flowers for the house Harvest time. It’s that moment we are all working towards all year, after all that sowing, tending staking and watering. When we finally get to pick the fruits of our labour. I decided last …
My strawberry patch Spoonie Veg rating: 1 Strawberries. Just the word, strawberries, it sounds quintessentially, summer. And they taste so good, whether freshly picked and eaten next to your patch or turned into homemade strawberry ice cream. What’s more, strawberries …
Updated 26th March 2023 Spoonie Veg rating: 1 Ok, my hands are up, I admit this isn’t the most obvious first choice for an individual Spoonie Veg blogpost. Bear with me, and see if I cannot convince you that Sorrel …
This recipe is a based on a mix from Alison Tindale and Martha Stewart. I’ve swapped the onions/shallots for garlic (I’m allergic to onions and shallots) and added a cheese topping. I converted the measurements to grams etc, and for Spoonies, …
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 …