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 »
One of the positive things to come out of the past year is a massive surge in people taking up gardening and a renewed interest in growing food. And while it is incredible to see so many people take to their gardens, it has created issues with being able to source seeds and garden equipment. …
Homegrown – 8 great Irish companies to buy seeds from Read More »
Look, I’m going to come straight out and admit it, I haven’t shared a blog post for the guts of two years. It’s not for the want of trying. I have, on numerous occasions, sat down to type something out here about the allotment, but words kept failing me. Perhaps I had writer’s block, perhaps …
FionaGrowsFood 2: Lockdown Boogaloo – I was gardening long before Covid made it cool Read More »
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 …
A potato blight warning is in effect so here’s what to do 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 »
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 …
How to Grow Parsnips using my ridiculous bare-arsed method Read More »
Happy New Year fellow growers! I’ve been slightly off the blogging radar for the past few weeks, mostly due the a little event that takes place around the end of December every year. I have a busy retail management job so Christmas is pretty much a black hole for me in terms of social life, …
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 …
The arrival of April is an exciting prospect for the vegetable gardener. The clock has moved one hour forward, the seemingly endless winter nights are truncated and the daylight hours stretch out their arms into a summer embrace. We uproot ourselves from the Netflix binges and shed our winter coats, we plant our feet firmly …
