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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
Summer cabbage…. With its peak harvest in August and September this vegetable provides an excellent source of Vitamin C leading up and through autumn. All health benefits aside summer cabbage has had its image tarnished by the soggy mush that’s served up by school and work canteens. In this guide I hope banish the soggy cabbage blues as I show you how to cook cabbage correctly, but first let’s look at how to grow summer cabbage at home.
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Monday, August 10th, 2009
Spring cabbage…. A hardy vegetable that’s an excellent source of Vitamin C and glutamine, an amino acid which has anti-inflammatory properties. Health benefits aside, the image of spring cabbage has been tarnished by the soggy mush served up in school and work canteens. In this guide I hope to banish the soggy cabbage blues as I show you how to cook cabbage correctly, but first let’s look at how to grow it at home.
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Kohlrabi…. high in vitamin C and K, potassium, fibre as well as the antioxidant carotenoids b-carotene and lutein. Kohlrabis flavour varies between nutty (uncooked) and broccoli with a hint of radish (cooked). If you seek unusual tastes and looks then this give this member of the cabbage family a second glance.
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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
Fingal Allotments offer large allotments in the tranquil countryside convenient to all in North County Dublin.
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Tags: 250m2, allotment year, allotmenteers, Allotments, amenities, Barbeque area, benefits, car parking, Charges, Co. Dublin, country, countryside, crop, day, delicious, exercise, family, farmers market, Fingal Allotments, fortune, fresh, fresh air, friends, Fruit tree, greenhouses, Grow, healthy, Help, Land, luxury, Manure, Naul, North County Dublin, owners, picnic area, planting, Private, recession, scenic, Secure storage, sell your produce, Sheds, site, Toilets, vegetables, water, €1, €320
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Up and running since February, Hillside Allotments are situated in Ballinagran, Co. Wicklow.
All the plots come fully prepared with water on tap and free manure.
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Tags: 100m2, 200m2, advice, allotment, alottmenteer, Arklow, Ballinagran, bbq area, BlackHill, car parking, Co. Wicklow, County Wicklow, Dublin, farm, February, forestry, free manure, Fruit tree, greenhouses, Hillside Allotments, land owner, N11, picnic, planting, plots, prepared, Private, Rathnew and Wicklow, sale, Sheds, storage, tap, Toilets, water, €350, €550
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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, April 13th, 2009
Bring along the family to Ballygroman Farm Allotments in Co. Cork and see the advantages of having your own allotment.
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Tags: allotment, allotment plots, Ballincollig Bypass, Ballygroman Farm Allotments, Barbecue area, Bee Keeper, Bee Keeping, Begley's Forge, car parking, Co Cork, Communal, Cork City, country, Day trips, demonstrations, dwarf fruit tree, eat, educational demonstrations, environment, exercise, expert advice, experts, Farm manure, fenced, food, fresh air, Fruit tree, greenhouses, Grow, grown, Hen Hatchery, horse manure, Kilumney, Kilumney Inn, outings, picnic area, planting, plots, ploughed, Private, rotovated, scenic, Sheds, site, social, storage, Talks, tap, Toilets, tool, tools, trading table, vegetables, water
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Tags: 30m2), acre, allotment holders, allotment owner, Allotments, Athy, car parking, Castlefarm Allotments, Co. Kildare, dairy farm, Fruit tree, garden, greenhouses, growers, Kilcullen, Narraghmore, organic, organic growing course, picnic tables, planting, plots, Private, Saturday, Secure storage, Sheds, Wicklow Mountains, year, €250, €350
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Located in the Crerogue, Kilmessan, Co. Meath, Big Tree Allotments offer another choice for allotment seekers in Meath.
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Tags: 108 m², allotment, Bellinter Cross, Big tree Allotments, Cannistown, car parking, Co. Meath, Connells Cross, Crerogue, Dublin, equipment, fruit bushes, Fruit tree, garden shop, gardening advice, greenhouses, ground, insurance, Kilcarn, Kilmessan, license, lockers, Lockers available to rent for secure, Meath, Navan, Old Bridge Inn, Paddy Gorman, Pike Corner, planting, Private, rent, season, Secure storage, seeds, Sheds, tips, tools, Trim, young plants, €220
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