Posts Tagged ‘gardening’
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
Posted in Allotment news from Ireland. | No Comments »
Friday, April 10th, 2009
As a child, Easter meant one thing to me… Easter eggs.
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Tags: acidic soil, agricultural lime, air dry, ammendment, annuals, beans, blossom end rot, boil, boiled eggs, brassica, brassica-family, butterflies, cabbage, cabbage butterfly, cabbage-white butterflies, cabbages, calcium, calcium carbonate, caterpillars, cauliflowers, chicken eggs, child, compost, compost heap, crop, Crushed shells, cutworm, dehydrate, dust, Easter, Easter Bunny, Easter eggs, Easter Sunday, eggs, eggshells, garden, garden birds, gardening, gardens, leaf, liquid feed, long grass, membrane, minerals, morning, nitrogen, perennials, pH, plastic bag, raw eggs, rolling pin, salt, slug, snail, soil, tomatoes, tool, underbellies, United Kingdom, vegetables, warm water
Posted in Vegetable garden tips and advice. | 5 Comments »
Sunday, April 5th, 2009
In a previous post I wrote about preparing your window box for vegetable growing, the layering of composts and the use of bubble wrap to help reduce your need to water in summer.
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Tags: air, bed, Bubble wrap, composts, container, crop, droughts, feeder roots, fertility, finger, fish blood and bone, flowering, fruiting, fungal, garden centres, garden fork, gardener, gardening, homemade compost, hose, instructions, irrigate, John Innes seed compost, lettuce, Miracle Gro, morning, nettle tea, nights, nitrogen, nutrients, Pea, phosphorus, plant food, plant nutrients, potassium, preparing, rain, root, season, seed, seed pack, seed sowing, seed sowing tips, seedlings, seeds, soil, sow, sowing depth, spacing, sprinkling, stems, sticks, stones, Summer, sun, supplement, thinning, veg, vegetable growing, veggies, water, water-soluble fertilisers, watering, watering can, weeds, wind, window box, wood
Posted in Vegetable garden tips and advice. | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Located on farmland at Beech Park, Clonsilla, Dublin 15 (Right next to Clonsilla railway station), these allotments are perfectly located for those wanting to escape the hustle and bustle of the city.
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Tags: 120m2, 350m2, Allotments, Beech Park, Beech Park House, Beech Park vegetable allotments, Blanchardstown, car parking, city, Clonsilla, Clonsilla Rd, Composting, Dublin 15, environment, farmland, food, Fruit tree, gardening, gardening supplies, greenhouses, healthy, laneway, M50, Navan, Private, Railway, railway station, rotavating, rural, Secure storage, seeds, Sheds, shop, site, Toilets, tomatoes, tools, waste disposal, water, weeding
Posted in Dublin allotments | 58 Comments »
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