Posts Tagged ‘water’
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
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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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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Tags: air, bed, Bubble wrap, composts, container, crop, droughts, feeder roots, fertility, finger, fish blood and bone, flowering, fruiting, fungal, garden centres, garden fork, gardener, gardening, homemade compost, hose, instructions, irrigate, John Innes seed compost, lettuce, Miracle Gro, morning, nettle tea, nights, nitrogen, nutrients, Pea, phosphorus, plant food, plant nutrients, potassium, preparing, rain, root, season, seed, seed pack, seed sowing, seed sowing tips, seedlings, seeds, soil, sow, sowing depth, spacing, sprinkling, stems, sticks, stones, Summer, sun, supplement, thinning, veg, vegetable growing, veggies, water, water-soluble fertilisers, watering, watering can, weeds, wind, window box, wood
Posted in Vegetable garden tips and advice. | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Tags: allotment scheme, Allotments, car parking, communal growing areas, County Clare, fencing, ground preparation, Illaunmanagh Cemetery, plots, Shannon, Shannon Allotments, towns, waiting list, water, €30
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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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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
Posted in Uncategorized, Vegetable garden tips and advice. | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Located on farmland at Beech Park, Clonsilla, Dublin 15 (Right next to Clonsilla railway station), these allotments are perfectly located for those wanting to escape the hustle and bustle of the city.
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Tags: 120m2, 350m2, Allotments, Beech Park, Beech Park House, Beech Park vegetable allotments, Blanchardstown, car parking, city, Clonsilla, Clonsilla Rd, Composting, Dublin 15, environment, farmland, food, Fruit tree, gardening, gardening supplies, greenhouses, healthy, laneway, M50, Navan, Private, Railway, railway station, rotavating, rural, Secure storage, seeds, Sheds, shop, site, Toilets, tomatoes, tools, waste disposal, water, weeding
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
Boasting beautiful views of the Bride valley, Mealagulla Allotments are located about five miles from ballincollig town, in Knockane, Ovens, Co. Cork.
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Tags: 10 sq metres, Aherla, Allotments, alotmenteer, ballincollig, barbecue, beds, beekeeping, Best Buddies, boarding kennels, Bride valley, car parking, Christmas tree, Cork, crowbar, drills, dwarfing rootstock, farmyard, farmyard manure, Fruit, goats, greenhouses, hens, Kilumney, Knockane, livestock, locker, Mealagulla, orchard, Ovens, picnic, plot, ploughed, polytunnel, potting, Private, rotovated, Secure storage, Sheds, sheep, sledgehammer, tap, tea room, Toilets, tree, twenty acre, views, water, Wheelbarrows
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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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Tags: acidic, apple, apple juice, apple tart, Armagh, blossom, Bramley’s seedling, cherry blossoms, compost, container grown, containerised, cooking, culinary, drum, estate houses, farmyard manure, fertilisers, flower, Fork, fresh, Fruit, garden centre, growing, hole, Loughgall, nursery, orchard, oven, peat, pink, planting, planting pit, root-ball, roots, soil, soil mark, spring, stake, sugar, taste, tie, tours, trees, water, wind, winter
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
With the vegetable growing season almost upon us, I decided in this post to provide you with the three most important questions all prospective growers should ask themselves before starting vegetable growing.
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Tags: air, aubergine, bed, carrot, clay, compost, cucumber, damage, feed, fence, grit, grower, Ireland, leaf, lettuce, light, loam, Manure, marrow, onion, potato, pumpkin, root, runner bean, sand, shelter, site, soil, south, spinach, stem, sun, vegetable, wall, water, windbreak
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