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 … Continue reading That don’t impress me mulch: Fiona goes barking mad
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, … Continue reading The important lessons that gardening has taught me about getting through life
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
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
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 … Continue reading Grow Yourself Gorgeous
Last week, I wrote about how to grow your own strawberries and I received a few requests from readers to feature a post on growing courgettes. Courgettes are one of the staples of a vegetable garden, they are prolific croppers and supposedly very easy to grow. I had a brief embarrassing moment a couple of … Continue reading Plants Bants: How NOT To Grow Courgettes
I spend an awful lot of time writing long, philosophical posts about how great gardening is (because it is) and how much it has changed my life (because it has) but I'd like to spend a little bit more time actually writing about the plants I grow, some tips for growing them yourselves and asking … Continue reading Plants Bants: Strawberries
Once upon a time there was a small, barren patch of land in a field in North County Dublin. This square of muck was unloved and unworked, yearning for a gardener to come along and tend to it. One day, a young woman stood at its borders, surveying it's potential and the patch of land … Continue reading Happily Ever After
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
Gardeners are wonderful. They are resourceful, creative, generous and hard working. Gardeners are from all walks of life, all ages and all races and I for one believe that gardeners are some of the best people I've had the good grace to encounter in my lifetime. The two greatest gardeners however, that I've had the … Continue reading International Greenfingers Day