Posts Tagged ‘planting’
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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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 »
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
A 93 year old grandmother goes guerrilla gardening at night in Totnes, Devon.
Have a look at her encounters with cabbage palms, boy racers, and strangers who wish to kiss her.
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Tags: boy racers , cabbage palm , cordyline australis , Devon , grandmother , granny , guerrilla gardening , humour , kiss , litter , night , planting , Richard Reynolds , Totnes , vegetables
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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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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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