Posts Tagged ‘Fruit’
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Amberley Allotments allows you to reinvent the skills of your forefathers through growing your own vegetables, fruit and flowers. The other idea behind setting up Amberley Allotments was, besides growing your own, to create a community where people exchange seeds, plants and advice and a have a bit of craic! Amberley Allotments are situated in Rochestown and are convenient to everyone who lives at that side of the Cork city.
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Tags: Amberley, Amberley Allotments, Brian Ludgate, Carrigaline, Co Cork, Cork City, Douglas, Dunsland Garden Centre, exchange seeds, flowers, Fruit, landscape contractor, Ludgate Lanscapes, manured, Monkstown, Peter Dowdall, plot cultivated, Rochestown, Rochestown College, Sue Ludgate, vegetables, windbreak
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Nature-Friendly Gardening and Growing for the Kitchen is the name of a one Day course which is being held on 8th August 2009. It takes place on a smallholding near Kiltegan in West Wicklow, 75 minutes from Dublin city centre.
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Tags: 8th August 2009, asian, cooked, Country Market, Dublin city centre, Emma Nelson, families, Fruit, gardeners, gardening, greenhouse, growing, home-grown herbs, keeping hens, Kiltegan, Kitchen, kitchen garden, Mo Osman, Nature-Friendly, one Day course, polytunnel, small groups, small holding, smallholding, Tullow., vegetables, West Wicklow
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Tags: 40 m2, 60m2, allotment owner, allotment sizes, Beech Hill, Beech Hill Allotments, Beginners, car parking, Co. Wicklow, December, drill ploughing, Enniskerry, Enniskerry road, Fruit, Fruit tree, greenhouses, growing, Kilternan, March, planting, potato planting, Private, rotavating, season, Secure storage, Sheds, Toilets, veg, €190, €280
Posted in Dublin allotments, Uncategorized, Wicklow allotments | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
Living in the countryside with roughly a half an acre site for my planting experiments, I sometimes tend to forget there are many gardeners who are less space “fortunate”.
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Tags: apartment, balcony, bowl, carrot root fly, carrots, cat, cauliflower, cherry tomatoes, compact, compost, container, countryside, eggs, estates, feet, fertile, fertiliser, frost-free, Fruit, gardeners, gardens, gravel, ground, growing, half an acre, houses, indoor, maggots, maintain, miniature, moisture, north, nutrients, outdoor, paving, pest damage, pests, planting, plants, prepare, protected, rainfall, root, salad, salt, seed, site, Slugs, soil, Strawberries, sunlight, Trailing, veg, veg patch, vegetables, water, weeds, wheelchair, window boxes, windows, windowsill, winter
Posted in Uncategorized, Vegetable garden tips and advice. | 3 Comments »
Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Tags: 110m2, 1200 square feet, 20ft x 30ft, 20ft x 60ft, 55m2, 600 square feet, advise, allotment, Allotments, Ballintubber, Beginners, car parking, Carrigtwohill, Christmas, city centre., Cork, demonstrate, drive, East Cork, farm, farmers market, farmland, farmyard manure, free, Fruit, Fruit tree, greenhouses, Grow, growers, growing, Halloween, harvested rainwater, lockers, Midleton, orchard area, owners, peace Peas, planting, potatoes, Private, pumpkins, Romanesco cauliflower, Secure storage, sell, Sheds, site, sprouting broccoli, stall, teach, Toilets, trees, unusual vegetables, veg, vegetable, white turnips, €300, €500
Posted in Cork allotments | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Have you seen this yet…. The Ideas Campaign ?
The co-founder of the Sunday Business Post, Aileen O’Toole is behind this initiative which aims to harness the minds of the country.
The blurb goes: “the Ideas Campaign is an independent initiative by citizens for citizens, designed to capture people’s ideas for stimulating Ireland ’s economy.”
“This grassroots campaign is about the positive aspects of economic activity that often receive little media attention, and the need to focus on solutions instead of the problems,” she says. “It is about setting a challenge to people to be innovative and creative.”
The Ideas Campaign.
So basically the Ideas Campaign is about asking people for ideas to stimulate economic activity, and one of those sections is “Agriculture and Food”
Some of the ideas submitted so far relating to allotments and fruit/vegetable growing include……..
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1. My policy idea is to introduce small half acre ‘plots’ for the general population to produce their own produce - after all we are in a monetary “wartime” situation.
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2. Every town in the country should start a community garden whereby a piece of land is given by the county council to a community group who will develop the land and grow fruit and veg and subsequently have a low cost weekly market.
There is a lot of land lying idle at the moment which, if worked, could yield good food. We would be a happier nation out working in the garden in tune with one another and with nature. A community cafe could be built on the land - a simple ‘Seomra House’ where everyone could congregate for soup and eat produce from the community.
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These are not my ideas I swear , but those of others that are interested.
Although some of the ideas are a bit “happy-clappy”, I’m sure there is a basis for something substantial there.
Have a look at the site and see what you think yourself.
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Tags: Agriculture, Aileen O’Toole, Allotments, built, cafe, citizens, community, community group, country, county council, creative, eat, economic, economy, food, Fruit, garden, Grow, growing, half acre, Ideas Campaign, innovative, Land, low cost, market, media attention, nation, nature, plots, population, produce, solutions, soup, Sunday Business Post, town, vegetable
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Boasting beautiful views of the Bride valley, Mealagulla Allotments are located about five miles from ballincollig town, in Knockane, Ovens, Co. Cork.
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Tags: 10 sq metres, Aherla, Allotments, alotmenteer, ballincollig, barbecue, beds, beekeeping, Best Buddies, boarding kennels, Bride valley, car parking, Christmas tree, Cork, crowbar, drills, dwarfing rootstock, farmyard, farmyard manure, Fruit, goats, greenhouses, hens, Kilumney, Knockane, livestock, locker, Mealagulla, orchard, Ovens, picnic, plot, ploughed, polytunnel, potting, Private, rotovated, Secure storage, Sheds, sheep, sledgehammer, tap, tea room, Toilets, tree, twenty acre, views, water, Wheelbarrows
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Whenever apple trees are mentioned or wrote about, the main focus always seems to be on their thirst quenching fruit.
The flower of the tree or apple blossom gets forgotten about for the most part, as we once again concentrate on our belly and what goes into it.
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Tags: acidic, apple, apple juice, apple tart, Armagh, blossom, Bramley’s seedling, cherry blossoms, compost, container grown, containerised, cooking, culinary, drum, estate houses, farmyard manure, fertilisers, flower, Fork, fresh, Fruit, garden centre, growing, hole, Loughgall, nursery, orchard, oven, peat, pink, planting, planting pit, root-ball, roots, soil, soil mark, spring, stake, sugar, taste, tie, tours, trees, water, wind, winter
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Currently boasting 16 fenced allotments, the Breaffy allotments are located 2 miles from Castlebar town, next to the Breaffy house hotel.
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Tags: Allotments, Breaffy, Breaffy house hotel, car parking, Castlebar, dwarfing rootstock, fenced, Fruit, greenhouses, harvesting, Mayo, planting, Potting Shed, Private, Sheds, sowing, spraying, watering, weeding, Wheelbarrows
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
Located on a farm just three miles from County Meath near Loughcrew Cairns and Forest, is the Grow Your Own allotments site.
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Tags: allotment, Allotments, beauty, canteen, car parking, Castlepollard, Cavan, Charges, Composting, County Meath, crop, cultivating, cutting, environment, farm, Forest, Fruit, greenhouse, Grow, harvesting, Karl Hennessy, locker, Loughcrew Cairns, Millbrook, Mullaghmeen, natural, Oldcastle, peaceful, plant, planting, plot, polytunnel, Private, recycling, rural, seed, Shed, site, soil, sowing, spraying, stables, storage, time, tool, Tubrid, unpolluted, waste, watering, weeding
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