January 18th, 2016
Laurence is a commercial and editorial portrait photographer. He is shooting a series of portraits of people interested in allotment gardening.
He is looking for interested participants. It is for a personal project he is shooting on the “Urban Gardener”
Participants will receive an image from shoot as a print or jpeg as thanks.
It will taken no more than 15 mins of each participant’s time. This site is supported by local garden centre in Celebridge.
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February 7th, 2012
Touted as the first commercial allotments in Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim, Attirory Allotments are now available to rent.
These plots within a secure gated premises are of limited availability, and given on first come first served basis. Expert advice and encouragement are at the allotmentees disposal if required, so the plots are well worth a look.
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Tags: allotments to rent, Attirory Allotments, canopy, Carrick-on-Shannon, Carrick-on-Shannon allotments, Co Leitrim, commercial allotments, Communal greenhouse, communal herb garden, communal shed provided, community compost corner, Dublin rd, garden bench, garden ridges, Kennedys garage, Leitrim allotments, Manure, Mary Mc Guire, monthly allotment newsletter, piped drainage system, plots, secure gated premises, stone paths, Tea making facilities, Toilets
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August 27th, 2011
Tags: 100 square metres, allotment insurance, allotments Drogheda, allotments East Meath, Chickens, Co. Meath, Colpe House Allotments, Colpe Road, Drogheda, Drogheda allotments, East Meath allotments, louth, Mornington, Railway Bridge, Shared polytunnel, Southgate Shopping Centre, temporary structure, Vincent Smith, €300
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May 15th, 2011
Did you ever eat Colcannon, made from lovely pickled cream?
With the greens and scallions mingled like a picture in a dream.
Did you ever make a hole on top to hold the melting flake
Of the creamy, flavoured butter that your mother used to make?
Yes you did, so you did, so did he and so did I.
And the more I think about it, sure, the nearer I’m to cry.
Oh, wasn’t it the happy days when troubles we had not,
And our mothers made Colcannon in the little skillet pot.
Colcannon (The Skillet Pot) Traditional Irish song
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Tags: ailment of cabbage, baby leaves, black cabbage, Black Rot, Black Tuscany, boil, borecole, Boron deficiency, Brassica oleracea acephala, brassicas, breadcrumbs, butter, cabbage, cabbage family, cabbage root fly, caraway seeds, cattle food, cauliflower, Chafer grubs, Clubroot, Colcannon, cold ham, collards, compact plants, cream, crinkly, crushed garlic, curly kale, Cutworms, Diamond-back, Downy mildew, Dwarf Green Curled, Europe, farmer’s cabbage, flavoured butter, Flea beetle, frilled, frost, frost proof cabbage, Gall weevil, German greens, green cabbage, Greens, harvest kale, Harvesting kale, heavy-bottomed pan, Italian kale, Kale, kale bitter, kale Cooking, kale Storage, Leaf Spot, Magnesium deficiency, Manganese deficiency, mashed potatoes, Mealy aphid, meats, melted butter, moth, Nero de Toscana, new growers, oil and vinegar dressing, olive oil, Parmesan cheese, pepper, peppery flavour, pickled cream, poorly drained soils, rape kale, Red Russian, resistant to disease, resistant to frost, resistant to pests, ring spot, salads, salt, sautéed, scallions, Scarlet kale, Scotch kale, shallow fried, Skillet Pot, Slugs & snails, smooth, sow kale, steam, steam kale, stir-fry kale, strips, Swede Midge White blister, tolerates wind, traditional Irish dish, Traditional Irish song, transplant kale, very hardy, White rust, Whitefly, wild cabbage, Wire stem, wrinkled leaves, Yellows virus
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April 22nd, 2011
If you ask any gardener with a vegetable plot have they grown onions, nine times out of ten they will reply with a “yes”. Now that onion may have been a bulbing onion, a spring onion (scallion), or even at a stretch they will have grown garlic and made that link to the onion. However ask that same group of gardeners have they grown leeks, and you will be lucky to get one yes reply in ten.
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Tags: Allium porrum, Argenta leek, blanching leek, chicken and leek broth, cock-a -leekie soup, cooking leek, flags, growing leek, King Richard leek, leeks, Lyon 2 Prizetaker leek, Musselburgh leek, onion family, poireau, Poor man’s asparagus, ramps, shredded cabbage, transplant leek, Transplanting leek, vegetable plot
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March 27th, 2011
For the time pressed gardener onion sets are a godsend. Onions seed can take a long time to germinate; it transplants poorly, and needs a long season to attain a kitchen ready bulb size. So it usually makes more sense to grow your onions from sets instead.
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Tags: Ailsa Craig, Allium cepa, bolt-resistant, Bolting, bulb onion, bulb size, cooking onion, Downy mildew, drying onions, farmers lunch, garden onion, globe onion, Growing onions from sets, Harvesting onion, heat-treated onion sets, hiberation, lavender flowers, Leek Moth, most adaptable vegetable, Mouldy Nose, onion, onion Bull Neck, Onion fly, Onion growing, onion Neck rot, onion Rust, onion seedlings, Onion sets, onion Shanking, onion thick neck, onion White Tip, onions from sets, red onion, Rijnsburger 5, Root Rot, running to seed, Saddleback, Set Division, Smut, Spanish onion, Stem and bulb eelworm, Sturon, Stuttgarter Giant, White rot
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March 14th, 2011
Custom has it that if you are to find a pea pod with nine or more peas in it that you can make a wish for whatever you heart desires. Now with the cold snap that we often experience in spring I’m willing to bet quite a few early seed sowers would have wished for milder weather. Reports filter in to me each spring of over-enthusiastic gardeners who have had their young seedlings totally blackened by a late frost.
Amongst the usual casualties are cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, spring onion, and beetroot, both in the open ground and within unheated glasshouses or polytunnels. All I can say to them is keep the chin up, don’t be downhearted, as it’s early in the growing season, so you’ve plenty of time to set a new batch of seeds. Let peas be one of them, and I can assure you that with a little care you will have a bountiful harvest.
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Tags: Anthracnose, beetroot, Bird attack tends, Bird protection, blanch peas, boiled new potatoes, cabbage, cauliflower, chicken wire, chocolate spot, chopped mint, climbing pea, cold snap, cooking peas, dwarf pea, dwarf pea variety, Early Onward, English pea, Foot Rot, freeze peas, freezing peas, frost, fungal attack, Fusarium Wilt, garden pea, Grey Mould, Halo Blight, Hurst Green Shaft, Kelvedon Wonder, lamb roast, Leaf and Pod Spot, leaflets, lettuce, marrowfat pea, Marsh Spot, melted butter, Meteor, Mice, Onward, open ground, Pea, Pea and Bean Seed Fly, Pea and Bean Weevil, pea cooking, pea growers, Pea growing, Pea Moth, pea pod, Pea Thrips, pea tips, pea varieties, Peas how to grow, petit pois, Pisum sativum, plastic netting, polytunnels, Root Rot, round Garden Pea, Seed Beetle, Spring onion, storing peas, sugar pea, swelled peas, tendrils, troubles of peas, unheated glasshouses, young seedlings
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February 6th, 2011
Growing your own veg in Cavan just got a bit easier. Cavan Allotments are just outside Cavan town, about half a mile from the “Moynehall” roundabout and up the Ballyjamesduff road.
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Tags: 086 251 7925, 600 sq ft, Ballyjamesduff, Cavan allotments, Cavan town, [email protected], Co. Cavan, growing workshops, horse manure, insurance, Lisreagh, Moynehall, Noel Galligan, plot-holders, plots rotovated, starter pack, water laid on, €20 euro, €99
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February 6th, 2011
Looking for an allotment to rent in Ballinasloe? Get in touch with Ballinue Allotments to see if they can help you out.
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Tags: 100sqm, Allotments Ballinasloe, allotments Galway, Aughrim, Aughrim village, Ballinasloe, Ballinue Allotments, Co. Galway, N6, Seamus Byrne, Tea making area, €200.00
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February 3rd, 2011
Need an area to grow your own veg in Mullingar? Stokestown allotments may be able to help you out.
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Tags: 087 2131447, 100sqm, 50sqm, allotments Mullingar, allotments Westmeath, Ballinea, Co. Westmeath, HORSLEAP, Lawned area, Mullingar, Peter gibson, [email protected], Stokestown allotments, STOKESTOWN HOUSE, swings, €150, €250
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