Category: FOOD

  • Four walls with shaky foundations

    Four walls with shaky foundations

    I won’t give up on the dream. I can’t. To do that would be the most devastating capitulation of all. Self inflicted too. They, whoever they may be, say that far away hills aren’t always greener. Mind you, right now, this corner would give anything to be anywhere away from base camp. A sort of…

  • Boylan Talks Garden – 11

    Today is the dawning of a new era for our YouTube Channel, for it is the first video filmed with our new camera. In it, we plant our first cabbage and carrots in a new way which keeps the farming blood flowing through the veins in this seat.

  • Boylan Talks Garden – 10

    Drum-roll please! We have our first sign of of real progress as blossoms begin to appear on the first of the potato crop, meaning their journey from farm to fork is well on the way. Weed re-growth and a shortage of supplies to deal with same are posing tricky challenges, but the wheels are still…

  • Boylan Talks Garden – 9

    A busy day today as we deal with our first crop failure and diminishing space. Plus, the first of the winter crops are ready for sowing, with Peppers the first up.

  • Boylan Talks Garden – 8

    In today’s offering you get a little bit of everything – yours truly trying to multi-task, not easily done! Mother dear gives me a hand with the spraying, we have a meeting with the Head of Security and take stock after our first bit of crop damage and possible loss.

  • Boylan Talks Garden – 7

    Today things really begin to take shape around the place as the resurfacing of the bottom of the yard yard begins and I’m let loose with a paintbrush!

  • BOYLAN TALKS GARDEN – 6

    A quick spin around the yard looking at the aftermath of a torrential night’s rain last night. Only the crops in the greenhouse needed spraying today. Cabbage and Spinnach left back from the first consignment of seed bought will be sown over the weekend.

  • Boylan Talks Garden – 5

    Boylan Talks Garden – 5

    Today we take you along as we transplant the crops that had started their lives in the office as well as talking about what’s next up with operation transformation in the shed.

  • Boylan Talks Garden – 4

    This is the first video in which actual progress can be seen with the crops. Not only that, but also with the shed/workshop project that – apart from obvious personal developments – has been keeping me afloat.

  • BOYLAN TALKS GARDEN – 3

    BOYLAN TALKS GARDEN – 3

    It’s been a busy few days between the website itself, various social media platforms and, with agreeable climatic conditions, plenty more veg crops being sown. On the latter point, mind you, the journey has moved onto its next stage, when today we transplanted some of what was sown in the first round of planting nearly…