Posts Tagged ‘vegetables’
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Amberley Allotments allows you to reinvent the skills of your forefathers through growing your own vegetables, fruit and flowers. The other idea behind setting up Amberley Allotments was, besides growing your own, to create a community where people exchange seeds, plants and advice and a have a bit of craic! Amberley Allotments are situated in Rochestown and are convenient to everyone who lives at that side of the Cork city.
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Tags: Amberley, Amberley Allotments, Brian Ludgate, Carrigaline, Co Cork, Cork City, Douglas, Dunsland Garden Centre, exchange seeds, flowers, Fruit, landscape contractor, Ludgate Lanscapes, manured, Monkstown, Peter Dowdall, plot cultivated, Rochestown, Rochestown College, Sue Ludgate, vegetables, windbreak
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
Set in the confines of a purpose built 18th century walled garden these allotments have near perfect soil and all day sunshine. This will ensure the hard work that goes into growing your vegetables will be as fruitful as possible.
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Tags: 18th century, 55 sq mts, 600 sq ft, allotment Cork, Allotments, allotments Cork, BBQ, beach, clonmel allotments, Co Cork, Cork allotment, Cork alotments, Farm yard manure, fruit bushes, Help available, Myrtleville Allotments, Myrtleville House Allotments, plot-holders, polytunnels, Private allotments, tennis court, vegetables, walled garden, €250
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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
For a country that promotes itself as the Emerald Isle, Ireland has been found badly wanting where the provision of allotments are concerned. This is very apparent when we consider what small quantities of plots our city and county councils throughout the land provide.
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Tags: 10 pole plot, 100 sq metres, 200 sq metres, 250 sq metres, 50 sq metre, agricultural land, allotment funding, allotment grants, allotment landowner, allotment planning permission, Allotments, Beginners, city, city councils, county councils, Emerald Isle, farms, fruit growing, garden sheds, government, Green party, green space, Ireland, Land, livestock, pathways, planning authority, planning permission, planning permission allotments, polytunnels, public allotment schemes, rent, temporary structures, town, urban areas, vegetable growing, vegetables, Village, waiting lists
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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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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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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Beetroots…round, cylindrical or tapered swollen roots that are way more versatile than many give them credit for. Fairly pest free, they are also a good crop for the organic gardener. Find out for yourself as we detail amongst other things the varieties suitable to grow in Ireland, and how to plant or sow them.
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Tags: acid soil, Albina Vereduna, alkaline soils, autumn, beet, Beetroots, best varieties, Beta vulgaris, Black bean aphid, Black Leg, bleed, boil, bolt-resistant, Boltardy, Bolting, boron, Boron deficiency, Burpee’s Golden, chutney, cloches, cooking, copper, Crimson beetroot, cut, Cylindra, cylindrical, Detroit, disease resistance, dries, drill, dry peat, early March, early winter, easy, end of July, Fanging, farmyard animal manure, feeding, fertiliser, fertilizer, fish blood and bone, flavour, fortnight, frames, freeze, garden centres, germination, golf ball, Greens, ground lime, Grow beetroot, Growmore, harvesting, hasten germination, hay, Heart Rot, home soil test, how to, Ireland, iron, label, Leaf Miner, Leaf Spot, leaf yellowing, leaves, life expectancy, manganese, Mangold Fly, Mediterranean, metre, Mid-March, neutral, nitrogen, orange skin, organic gardener, origin, paper, pest free, Pests and Diseases, pH, phosphorus, plant, plant ills, plastic bag, potassium, preservation, raked, red, refrigerator, roots, rosettes, salads, scorching, seedlings, shelter, slatted boxes, slices, smooth skin, Snowhite, soil, soil conditions, soil nutrients, soups, Southern Europe, sow, sow seeds, spades depth, Speckled Yellows, spinach, sprout, stones, storage, successional harvesting, suitable to grow in Ireland, sunny spot, supermarket, swollen, tapered, tennis ball, thinnings, tips, tolerate shade, trench, trowel, vegetable, vegetables, vigour, waterlogs, weed free, wheelbarrow, When to grow, Where to grow, white, White beet, yellow, Yellow beet, zinc
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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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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…)
Tags: April, Artichoke, Asparagus, August, beetroot, black plastic, Broad bean, Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, bulbing, carrots, cauliflower, Celeriac, Celery, Chicory, Chinese cabbage, Courgette, cucumber, depth, digging, Endive, February, French bean, fridge, garden centres, garden forks, garden shed, garden soil, germinated, glass, Globe artichoke, January, July, June, Kale, kohl rabi, leaf beet, leeks, lettuce, list, March, marrow, May, month, months, onion, outdoors, Parsnip, Pea, Perpetual spinach, plastic, plots, potato, pumpkin, radish, Red cabbage, runner bean, Savoy cabbage, Scallion, seed germination, seed sowing, silage cover, sow, sow from seed, Spinich, spring, Spring cabbage, Spring onion, sprout, sprouting variety, Squash, stones, summer cabbage, Swede, Sweet corn, Sweetcorn, tomato, Turnip, Turnip root celery, veg, vegetable, vegetable grower, vegetable growing, vegetables, warm, weed free, weed growth, weeks, windowsill, Winter cabbage, yellow turnip
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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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