Tag: Radishes

Blog Post Photo on Gardening, Seedlings
My Stories

A Gardener’s Hope

Or, maybe it should be “a hope and a prayer”… The radish seeds I planted are up as of yesterday!  So I’m feeling pretty positive! I’ve been thinking about the planting of seeds lately. It seems to me that gardeners are people whose  wine glasses are half full and are people full of hope for […]

Blog Post Photo, French Breakfast Radishes & for A Simple Radish appetizer
Appetizers

A Simple Radish Appetizer

Whenever I think Spring radishes are front and centre! Slices of baguette Softened butter Worcestershire & Tabasco, you can substitute some anchovies if you like them. Sea salt & freshly ground black pepper New radishes such as French Breakfast, sliced  – save the small young leaves & add to a salad Snipped chives Combine butter […]

Blog Post Photo, Flowering Branches
My Stories

Spring Then and Now

“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May/and summer’s lease hath all to short a date.” -Shakespeare, sonnet 18. Spring meant many things when I was a little girl, in the 1950’s, Easter school holidays being high on my list as I was not too keen on school! Then there were new “Easter” dresses, […]