Posts Tagged ‘veg’
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
A family-run allotment scheme set on a small farm only a few miles from Ballybunion. Join Joe, Lucy, their four daughters, and a host of cattle and ponies in the peaceful countryside as you grow your own veg.
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Tags: 12 metres x 6 metres, allotment scheme, Ballybunion, BALLYCONRY, basic gardening tuition, cattle, Co. Kerry, countryside, DROMERIN, Gurtcreen, Gurtcreen allotments, insurance, Kerry, Listowel, Listowel allotments, ponies, small farm, trantsplants.com, veg, €250
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
In the first part of this series of articles I had the pleasure of introducing you to a possible business venture for landowners. This venture, partly commercial and partly philanthropic is the provision of allotments close to a village, town, or city.
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Tags: Allotment helpers, allotment insurance, allotment owners, allotment scheme, allotments city, allotments town, allotments village, Antrim, Bark mulch, BBQ, business venture, commercial, communal shed, communal tea area, Cork, cultivating, disabled access, DIY stores Yearly rental allotments, Down, Dublin, farms insurance, farmyard manure, fencing, foundations, fruit tree planting onsite, Galway, garden centre, greenhouses, Kildare, landowners, liability waiver, Limerick, local authority approval, Manure, Meath, mushroom compost, On-site car parking, orchard area, pathways, planning, plot size, Ploughing, provision of allotments, Public Liability, public meeting, rabbit protection, Secure storage, seed shop, Sheds, Tipperary, Toilets, tool shop, tractor, trailer, veg, water stand pipes, Wexford, wheelbarrow, Wicklow, €10000, €250
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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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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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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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Monday, April 20th, 2009
Here’s a handy list that I compiled in response to that eternal vegetable growing query that crops up as soon as spring arrives, “Am I too late to sow… (Insert vegetable of choice here)? (more…)
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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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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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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
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