They say March winds and April showers make way for sweet May flowers. Well not this fucking year. We’ve had snow in March and no rain at all in April. None. It hasn’t rained properly in Dublin for the guts of five weeks now. The soil is hard and cracked, everything is wilting, stinted or just …
Raised beds: How I built them, how I filled them and what comes next Read More »
I’d like to begin this post with two apologies to my readers. The first apology is to the thousands (perhaps millions) of readers who have tried to access my website over the past couple of weeks and were greeted with a blank page. I know it must have been truly shocking to find my website …
That don’t impress me mulch: Fiona goes barking mad Read More »
Sometimes, life is just shit. There is no other way to say it. It’s just shit. And let’s face it, a lot of the time, life is shit because people are shit. We are. We are all at times, just shit. Shit to ourselves, shit to others, shit to the world around us. Shit. *Warning, …
The important lessons that gardening has taught me about getting through life Read More »
Hello my lovelies! It has been quite a while since I wrote a post here, I’ve been incredibly busy and in demand, it’s not easy being me. In fact, last time I wrote a blog post was during Hurricane Ophelia in October and I’ve been struggling to know how to begin again. Winter was tough …
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 listicle. You know the listicle. 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. …
The top random number of somethings to something in the garden at sometime Read More »
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 …
I dig, therefore I am – How gardening changed the direction of my life Read More »
Right, I know it’s been quite a while since I last wrote a blog post, I would apologise but to be honest, I’ve actually been busy becoming a superstar so it was a worthwhile sacrifice. Lifestyles of the rich and famous yo (I’ve also seemingly been initiated into a low-level street gang yo). I’ve had …
It’s a funny thing being a young(ish) woman with an allotment. On one hand, I love nice clothes, make up and am well known amongst friends for wearing sky-high stilettos; but on the other hand I love being dirty, don’t care about brand labels and have been known to go for days without even thinking about …
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 …
Hello lovely people. It’s been a couple of weeks since I wrote anything on here, you might remember I wrote a little post about garden remedies for colds and flu? Well, rather ironically, I ended up with such a bad flu that – depsite all my lovely herbal remedies – morphed into a rather horrible …
