Met Eireann has issued a potato blight warning for the entire country this week and I'm currently freaking the hell out about what's going to happen to my poor spuds. A few people have asked me today what to do to protect their spuds when there a blight warning in effect so here's my esteemed … Continue reading A potato blight warning is in effect so here’s what to do
So, I've noticed a little trend among garden blogs, in garden magazines and publications and I'm sure it's very helpful and informative: The list. You know the list. The top five jobs for the garden in July. The top 9 herbs to grow on your windowsill The top seven things to plant in February Etc: … Continue reading The top random number of somethings to something in the garden at sometime
There's a fresher air in Dublin this week as late summer breezes by and autumn blows in. My summer of discontent has been and gone and much like the changing of the seasons, my life has shifted in to a brand new phase. It's been an arduous summer here at Fiona Grows Food, plagued with … Continue reading I dig therefore I am
Valentine's day is unavoidable. It really is. It's everywhere. Cards. Chocolates. Cuddly Toys. Sexy undies. Sexy undies everywhere. Flowers. So many bunches of flowers. So many roses. So many sad, supermarket carnations. I have a bit of a pathetic secret, I've never been bought flowers by a man. Never. Not once. Which is a hell … Continue reading Plants Bants, Valentine’s Day Edition: Borage
Parsnips are a great divider of opinion, you either love them or you hate them, there is no in between. I happen to adore parsnips, they're one of my favourite vegetables, especially when roasted with honey and fresh sage. Parsnips are the vegetable that converted me from a vegetable hater to a vegetable grower so … Continue reading Plants Bants: How to Grow Parsnips
Halloween is a scary time of year. Everywhere you look there are horror movies, monsters, ghosts, vampires and zombies. But perhaps the scariest thing about Halloween is that nobody really seems to know what it's about anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I adore Halloween, it's one of my favourite times of the year. The … Continue reading A Super Natural Halloween
You know on Halloween, just before you'd go out trick or treatin', your Ma would serve you up a steaming plate of colcannon which you'd eat reluctantly in the wishes of finding some cash hidden inside? No? Then you're not bleedin' Irish. Colcannon on Halloween is a distinctly Irish tradition for a distinctly Irish holiday. … Continue reading Plants Bants: Kale, the superhero of the veggie garden
There's something strange afoot in Ireland the past week. The temperature's soarin', the sun's a blarin', the skin's a burnin', the shorts are shortenin', the freckles are spreadin', the barbecues burnin', the beer gardens hoppin' and the thunder's a clappin'; somewhere there's probably maids a milkin', pipers pipin' and lords a leapin' and there were … Continue reading Why Food Mattered with GIY at Bloom
Here's how it is. You get up early when all your mates are in bed. You can't go to the pub because you need to prune your hedges. You spend your winters out in the cold and your rainy days out in the rain. You dig and you plant and you weed and you water. You … Continue reading The Payoff
On your mark ready set let's go, Garden pro, I know you know I go psycho when the spring time hit, Just can't sit, Got to get diggy with it, thats it. It's finally spring time, the temperature is rising, the mornings are brighter, there's a grand old stretch of an evening, the winter coats are stored away, … Continue reading Gettin’ Diggy With It