Posts Tagged ‘plants’
Monday, August 24th, 2009
“Don’t wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees.”
Anne Raver
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Tags: acid soils, animals, anther, apples, attract bees, attractive, autumn, bee attractant, Bee Keeping, bee visits, beekeeping, bees, bird cherry, black Alder, blackthorn, blueberry, Borage, bread, butterfly bush, Ceanothus, climate, clover, coastal garden, collecting, common privet, Container growing, cough, dog rose, dusk, elderberry, Escallonia, Evergreen, Exposed, exposure, female, flower, forage, fresh produce, fruits, garden, Geraniums, globe thistle, goat willow, grass, guelder Rose, hairy, hawthorn, hazel, Heather, Hebes, Herb garden, hive, honey, honey and lemon, honeybee, honeysuckle, hypericum, insects, Irish ivy, Killarney strawberry tree, kilometres, Lavender, Lawns, male, mixed hedgerow, native bees, native plants, native shrubs, nectar, parasitic mite, peas, people, Perennial plantings, Perfume, pesticides, pests, plants, pollen, pollen dust, pollinated, pollinating insects, pollination, proteins fats, Pyracantha, rowan, sage, scones, Sedum, selective, shedding, soil type, spray, spraying, stigma, Strawberries, sugars, Summer flowering shrubs, summers, supermarkets, swarms, thyme, tomatoes, trellis, trembling poplar, underplantings, Varroa destructor, veg, vegetables, walls, weedkiller, whitebeam, wild bee, wild cherry, wild crab apple, wild native hedgerow, wind, yields
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Gortbrack organic farm (Ballyseedy, Tralee, Co. Kerry) is hosting a weekend course on “An introduction to permaculture and how to plant a forest garden” with Graham Strouts (Kinsale permaculture course tutor) on sat 8th & sun 9th august.
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Tags: Allotments, August, Ballyseedy, Co. Kerry, Community Education Programme, community green spaces, design and build, forest garden, fruit and nut trees, fruit bushes, Gortbrack, graham strouts, habitat, herbs, Kerry Earth Education Project, Kerry Education Services, Kinsale permaculture course, mulch, no-dig, no-weed gardening, organic farm, Organic lunch, perennial vegetables, permaculture, permaculture principles, permaculture teachers, plants, practical experience, practical skills, public spaces, school grounds, self-maintaining garden, Tralee, tutor, weekend course, west Cork, wildlife
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
Have you heard of the movie “The bucket list”? It details the trip taken by two men who work their way through a list of things they wish to experience before they die. The “bucket list” in the title was a roster of things to do before the movies main character “kicks the bucket”.
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Tags: apple trees, bucket list, buckets, compost, drains, dry sand, flowers, forks, Fruit tree, fungal infections, garage, garden, Garden buckets, garden shed, gardener, gardening helpers, gooseberries, Hand trowels, handy tips, hanging basket, hedge clippers, hole, hose, irrigation, leaves, liquid feed, mildews, movie, Oil, oil change, oiled, oily rag, plantings, plants, potting stand, rim, roots, rust, rust-free, sand filled buckets, sand paper, scorching, shrub, soil, spades, splashes, strawberry, ten-litre bucket, The bucket list, tomato, tool, tool preserver, trickle irrigator, veg beds, water, watered, watering can, weed, winter, wire brush
Posted in Fruit garden tips and advice., Uncategorized, Vegetable garden tips and advice. | No Comments »
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
Posted in Vegetable garden tips and advice. | 4 Comments »
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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