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 …
Garden visit: Renishaw Hall Gardens in early Spring (photo essay)
There was real warmth in the sun today and it really felt like Spring. After nearly a week of bad ME days that kept me mostly bed/house bound, I was feeling a little better and really wanted to get outside. …
Putting in a rainwater collection tank
It’s been just over 2 years since the landscapers completed the work on my garden, and it’s only now that I finally have the large water tank in place that was originally part of my design. You can see the …
Gardening with ME: an introduction to Spoonie Veg
Last October I blogged about facing the fact that I couldn’t continue to garden like I was a normal healthy person. At the time my ME was getting worse, and I had to rethink how I garden. Part of the …