Posts Tagged ‘growing’
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
As the interest in home-produced food reaches fever pitch, a new organisation called GIY Ireland is aiming to inspire people to get growing and give them the knowledge they need to do so successfully.
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Tags: 2009, 3 course lunch, allotment growing, Allotments, back-garden, baking, Ballymaloe Cookery School, community gardens, county, Darina Allen, draw, exchange tips, food, food growers groups, GIY Ireland, GIY networks, growing, health & nutrition, home-produced, Ireland, John Seymour School of Self-sufficiency, Keynote speakers, knowledge, learn, local produce, Michael Kelly, Minister for Food and Horticulture, organisation, permaculture, produce, seed-saving, September 12th, successfully, talk, TD, Tickets, town, Trevor Sargent, vegetable growers, war-stories, Waterford Institute of Technology, Will Sutherland, workshops, €35
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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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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
GreenAcre Allotments are set in the Scenic countryside of Murroe, in the foothills of Slieve Felimn, just 20 minutes from Limerick city.
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Tags: 8 metre by 10 metre, allotment, Allotments, Ballyvorheen, Cappamore, car parking, Co. Limerick, community centre, Composting, crossroad, environment, exercise, family, farmyard manure, fire station, foothills, friendly, Fruit tree, GAA field, graveyard, GreenAcre Allotments, greenhouses, growing, healthier lifestyle, herbs, house, Limerick city, Mackays Cross, maintaining, Murroe, planting, plot-holders, plots, Poly-tunnels, primary school, Private, recycling, rent, Scenic countryside, Secure storage, Sheds, shelter, site, Slieve Felimn, Spring water, tap, tea, Thomond scout centre, veg, vegetables, Village, waste services, €250
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
This is a new allotment venture in a walled garden about 2.5 miles from Fethard, Co Tipperay.
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Tags: 170 sq m, 280 sq m, allotment venture, allotment year, allotmenteers, BBQ, beautiful, car parking, Charges, Clonacody, Clonacody cross, Clonmel Road, Co Tipperay, Communal, community, Compost bins, development, fan dwarf rootstock, Farmyard manure available, Fethard, Fruit tree planting, glass house, greenhouses, growing, lean-too, organic, organic ethos, plot-holders, polytunnel, Private, Renovating, rotovator, rural setting, Seed beds, Sheds, site, wall planting, walled garden, €150
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
This is a new allotment project situated in a secure and private location just 2 miles from Navan, Co. Meath.
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Tags: 6 x 18m, allotment owner, allotment project, allotmenteers, Balreask Pub, car parking, Charges, Co. Meath, community, Dublin, Dunshaulin, experience, farmyard manure, free, fruit bushes, Fruit tree, gardeners, glasshouses, growing, harvesting, holidays, Keating’s Oil, Macetown, Navan, Navan Garden Allotments, planting, plot, Private, Robinstown village, rotovated, secure, Secure storage, Sheds, Tapped water, Trim, watering, weeding, Willows Restaurant, €250
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Last week I wrote about a solution to lack of space for growing salad vegetables faced by balcony and patio gardeners.
That was the window box vegetable garden.
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Tags: 6 inches, Avonresister, Balconi red, balcony, base, beetroot, Bubble wrap, bulbs, cabbage, carrot, cherry tomatoes, compact, compost, drainage, dwarf, garden, garden centres, gardeners, globular, granules, gravel, grit, growing, Half pint, Hestia, holes, John Innes, John Innes No. 3, John Innes seed compost, Kundulus, lettuce, miniature, moisture, nutrients, Parmex, Parsnip, patio, Pea, plants, plastic, polystyrene, Pronto speedy, pumpkins, radish, recycle, roots, runner bean, salad, Salad bowl, Scarlet globe, seed, six-inch, soil, soil-based, sowing, space, Spring onion, Summer, Swellgel, terracotta, Tiny Tim, tomato, traditional, Tumbling Tom, veg, vegetable, vegetable seeds, vegetables, veggie, water, water-holding gel, watering, White Lisbon, window box, window box lip, windowsill, wooden
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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 »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Todays Irish Times newspaper (Thursday, March 26, 2009) ran an article entitled “Why growing your own food is back on the menu“, which gives a mention to Allotments.ie.
A big thank you to the writer John Gibbons.
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Tags: Allotments.ie, article, food, growing, Irish Times, John Gibbons, menu, newspaper, writer
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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
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
As I strolled out towards the veg garden this morning, I bumped into some old friends who come for a visit each spring.
I smiled towards Mrs tulip, tipped my cap to Mr Crocus, waved happily across to the daffodil clan, then it all went wrong as I was stopped in my tracks by some unwelcome visitors.
You know the sort, someone you know see, you’ll give them the time of day, but would rather they did not visit.
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Tags: 5 cm, annual meadow grass, annual weeds, beds, Bindweed, borders, chemical, Chickweed, chipped bark, contact herbicide, Couch grass, Crocus, daffodil, Dandelion, Dandelions, dig, digging, Dock, Docks, ecologically friendly, feeding, flower garden, flowers, Gallup, garden, gardeners, gate, germination, Glyphosate, green, groundsel, growing, herbicide, hoe, hoeing, insects, large chip, leaves, medium, mini, mulch, mulched, mulching, organic, perennial weeds, pine forest, plantings, pull, pulling, root, Roundup, safety, Scutch grass, seed, seedling, shallow rooted, Shepard’s Purse, speedwell, spray, spring, Thistles, Touchdown, translocated, tulip, veg, vegetable plot, weed, Weedol, weeds, West of Ireland
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