By: Suzie Cahn
Apr 07, 2013
"Suffer Vegetables" For most of the year you can’t keep me indoors and for most of the day I can’t sit still, but a certa...
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By: Peter Dowdall
Mar 22, 2013
If you can get your kids interested in the garden then you are giving them a hobby and passion that will last for a lifetime. I remember when I starte...
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Harvest Party 30 August 2014 Well we had a fantastic day last Saturday for our Harvest Party on the New Ross Quay! The sun shone, the wonderful musicians from Campile played, some people danced, we had lovely fruit juice and sandwiches from Kavanaghs Shop, and delicious spring rolls from the Jade Garden Chinese restaurant, and we had lovely pints in Roche’s Bar afterwards! Three photographe...
Students and teachers at Beneavin College have teamed up with the staff and residents of Beneavin Nursing Home in Finglas again this year to create their very own Generational Garden that will see the creation of an intergenerational garden and a Polytunnel to accompany it. The project when completed will be used by students and residents alike to add to the ever expanding list of intergener...
Monday 7 July Well, there was no more putting it off - we had to dig up some spuds today. This was one of the most exciting days so far and there was a real buzz as Olly, Mary and Roisin pulled out the stalks and rummaged around in the soil. One after another, big deep pink spuds came out and they seemed to be never-ending. We only harvested about a third of the bed but still got a great ha...
Thosaigh muid ag obair ar ár gháirdín i mbliana. Rinne muid go leor obair ar an gháirdín. Cur muid piseanna, prataí, píonairí, sú talún, biabhóg, raidis agus cúpla plandaí eile. Cúpla seachtain ó shin bhí orainn chuid is mó de na bplandaí a dhíol do na bpáist&...
Monday 30 June Glorious sunshine at WLR again today and the veg garden is looking great. The lettuce was looking fab and leaves are being picked every few days. The WLR gang are having them in sandwiches and salads, along with shallot leaves which are being used as scallions. The second crop of radishes are already up, after the first lot were eaten. We also had a bit of a mystery today, with ...
One of the objectives of our children's planting project is to encourage healthy eating behaviours amongst the children. Yesterday, I spotted a small group of our pint-sized gardeners grazing on the mixed-leaf lettuce that we have planted into the vegetable trug. Literally grazing. The height of the trug means that the leaves are ideally placed at mouth-level. It doesn't get any fresher th...
Today we created a simple raised ‘lazy’ bed, although why they are called that I’ve no idea – making them is strenuous enough. The first step is to mark out and then turn over all the sod on your bed area. At this stage the bed is pretty flat looking. Then, we cut the turf from the path next to the bed, and put it on the bed. Then, the soil from the path is thrown up to...
We love strawberries, but a lot of those being grown in the beds were being eaten by everything - slugs, mice, beetles, you name it, it seems to like strawberries. We'd seen a friend grow his in hundreds of hanging baskets in the tunnel, slung from crop bars, but didn't have any of our own, so decided to try them in old milk cartons, suspended by string. Just make a few drainage holes in t...
We are Steve and Claire, and three years ago we decided we wanted to live more simply, so we set off to look at what other people were doing. When we came back, we moved into a converted horse box, and our journey began. A year later we found Lackan Cottage Farm - an uninhabitable cottage set in the beautiful County Down countryside, and with the birth of our daughter imminent, we set about reno...
In the past few weeks we have added 2 extra raised beds to our motley collection in the children's garden, received as donations from a neighbour. As an added bonus, a local builder agreed to donate a trailer full of good quality top soil to fill these. One of the new beds began its life as a sandpit and has a lovely hexaganol shape. It now houses some very tiny leek plants, and some pumpkin s...
i planted swift spuds in late feb. they seemed ot do well for while. later on in march i planted queens and they are coming into bloom. they seem to have passed the swift, i planted in feb. did i plant the swift too early or are queens a superior spud. has anyone else spuds flowering now.
Have to get rid of my 1yr old rooster so if anyone would like a fine big rooster free you can take him away. I live neer Thurles. Liam C Ryan.
GIYers ... our first outing of the summer is to The Herb Garden, located in The Naul on Sunday 18th May. We are meeting there at 2.00pm. It's an ideal day to bring kids, neighbours, friends and family and it's going to be a fabulous day out. If you want to check it out visit: www.theherbgarden.ie where you will also find directions. Lots of beautiful herbs will be for sale on the day t...
Margaret Atwood wrote that "in the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt". We smelled of dirt today and it was wonderful. It was raining slightly but we decided to persist with our planting session anyway. The mangetouts and sugar snap peas squatting on my south-facing windowsills have been looking uncomfortable in their tiny pots for a while now, and we figured it was probably...
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful” - William Morris There is a patch of land beside my driveway. According to the plans of the house it is our front garden. In reality it is a moss-filled patch of scrubland that the neighbourhood uses as an unofficial litter tray and bin. We rarely tend to it. Having initially pumped a lot of mo...
We've been making great progress with our children's planting project here in Garanbawn. So far we've planted purple magetout, sugersnap peas, marrowfat peas, and french beans into small pots and seed trays. They're currently monopolising my upstairs windowsills and are enjoying the sun so much that it's beginning to resemble something out of The Day of the Triffids up there. W...
about 5 weeks ago i sprayed very rough grass. it has died down and i have cut dead grass and raked if off. how soon can i put my hens on to the treated plot.
The wheels of our children's planting project really began turning on March 11th when our top soil was delivered. We had bought and assembled some cheap raised beds in the preceding days and had stocked up on compost, planting trays, pots, seeds etc. Now that we were the proud owners of a big pile o' dirt we started feeling energised and eager to get started. The weather helped - sun split...
Many hands make light work. Never was a truer word said. GIYers joined the team from WLR to set up the new garden at the Broadcast Centre. Deep beds were screwed together and laid out, soil was shovelled and barrowed, and fun was had all round. The kids dived in as well - my gang along with Michael Kellys pair - grabbing a shovel or screwdriver at every opportunity. Making up th...
Spring is here. I don’t know whether it is the stretch in the evenings or the rise in temperature that gets my green fingers itching, but either which way, no sooner is Paddy’s day over then I have an over whelming desire to get back to my garden and get growing. The first step for this is having something to grow – and for that I need some seedlings. You can buy seedling...
