Hello and welcome to Long Mizzle
Hello and welcome to Long Mizzle, [Pink cosmos, cannas, blue agapanthus] Our Cornish garden did not always have a name. For seven years it had just been known as 'the garden'. Then towards the end of June 2020, our littlest sprog & I tipped out some potatoes that had been planted in bags on March 23rd, the start of lockdown. We rinsed and dried them, marvelled at the 'world's smallest potato' (this is a game we often like to play), popped the most sensible sized ones into a brown paper bag, labelled it 'new potatoes from Long Mizzle Garden - grown in seaweed from Swanpool' and handed them to my dad for his birthday. [Pink cosmos, cannas, blue agapanthus] Well, my mam just loved how the name co-incidentally sounded like Monty Don's 'Long Meadow' ...because, you know, I hadn't thought of that name play at all, being a massive Gardener's World fan!!! ;) For those not familiar with the word 'mizzle' - it is a lovely light ra...