Posts Tagged ‘garden centre’
Monday, February 15th, 2010
In the first part of this series of articles I had the pleasure of introducing you to a possible business venture for landowners. This venture, partly commercial and partly philanthropic is the provision of allotments close to a village, town, or city.
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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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Friday, February 27th, 2009
It all kicks off this month in the vegetable garden.
So have you got your gloves ready, your spade sharpened, and your special slug detecting goggles on?
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Tags: April, aubergine, beetroot, bird, broad beans, Brussels sprouts, bucket, bud, bulb, carrots, cauliflower, chit, chitting, compost, conservatory, container, cucumber, drill, farmer, free-draining, freezer, garden, garden centre, glasshouse, gloves, goggles, kohl rabi, leeks, lettuce, March, net, onion, onions, parsnips, patio, peas, polytunnel, potato, radish, Rake, seed, sets, shallots, slug, soil, sow, spade, spinach, sprouting, straw, summer cabbage, sun, sunroom, sweet pepper, Swiss chard, tomato, turnips, vegetable, weather, weeding, weeds, windowsill
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