grow your own, cheaper than B & Q
I was on the phone to my good pal Thomas yesterday. Tom was doing some garden chores and wanted advice… he was in B & Q. The conversation turned to the grown your own kits that were on sale being sold there… They’re how much Tommy?!! That’s flamin’ mental…. So I’ve taken one example I [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 5 comments }we had some chickens…
but no eggs would they lay… I called the two girls cagney and lacey [read the full story here]. The reality was I promised my niece Lilly I’d have two chickens [or hens] for her to see on that particular weekend. Cagney & Lacey got delayed in traffic [by about two weeks] and so I [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 3 comments }how to grow seeds…
i had written about a way in which i grow seeds last year – click here. But sometimes, for which I apologise, I forget my head so to speak and advance to a next level assuming everyone is on my planet, horticulturally speaking…. I’m gonna do this seed planting piece – easy styleee. This is [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { One comment }organic, recycled gardens …?
Why is there a picture of a man sitting on a truck at the bottom of this post…? The man is my good friend Thomas. You may know him from his most unusual garden guest post here. But you may also know Thomas from the much famed Irish Allotments – something, unknowns to most, he [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 12 comments }free events at the new eco-shop
I’m a huge fan of the eco shop in Wicklow and recently I got an email from Bryonny letting me know of their new centre and the really cool events. They have moved to a beautiful premises at the Meridian Centre in Greystones. With that in mind a series of free Saturday seminars [informal and [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { One comment }free bird…
i have about ten of these bird feeders dotted around the garden. The ones on the right are good for the seed – but the larger birds seem to prefer the nuts… I’ll probably give it about a week and then I’ll put them back up again. I tend not to put them near the [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 3 comments }vegetable growing [easy style]…
i tried the ‘going green’ with the veggie grow gig, the herbs and all the other green stuff. It takes time. I needed something to impress the in or out-laws and fast! I’m Peter Pumpkin eater… the walls of the house and my car are supposed to be green… I’ll be ready for them all [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 6 comments }what’s eating my plants
I couldn’t believe it when I looked outside and saw, literally every cabbage plant, stripped. What is left over, probably hasn’t got long left. This little git is the catterpillar and will eventually become a butterfly – as I’m sure you already know. But how, domestically and non chemically do I deal with the little [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 2 comments }[bio]diverse bats?
biodiversity: n the existence of a wide variety of plants and animals in their natural environments [collins dictionary] I came home one night [a little the worse!] and saw this fella at my front door. So I took a photo. I thought it was a bat? It’s not. It looks like one. It’s not. But [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 0 comments }mustard – seed, grow, crop, eat
I found it really hard to find information of any substance or at all in any books on this plant. But, if ever you wished to go green really quickly this is the plant for you. I chose white mustard. Instructions say it can be grown on tissue paper! it is that easy. I planted [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { One comment }cagney & lacey – the chickens
Yesterday I got these two guys. The simplest thing *anyone* can ever do in the smallest of spaces. It took a little for them to settle in but after one night they’re good now. What You Will Need: The run I made is from an old dog kennell; some chicken wire [burried about 3" below [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 6 comments }Sowing the seeds
I can only really buy seeds and the paraphernalia required in the same places as you. This week I bought [in woodies: i emailed them this post] mustard, pumpkin, carrott, sprouts, cabbage, brocoli, onion and sweetcorn. I didn’t buy lettuce seeds because the man said: ‘did you see them there?’ ‘no, I couldn’t find any’ [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 4 comments }Herb Garden Harvest
Most of you will remember my herb garden from a few months back. It didn’t look much at the time – but – whlst I had been borrowing a bit hither dither for cooking.. I eventually had to crop the parsley, some chives and rhubarb. I ate all the blackberries. The parsley I washed and [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 2 comments }wood chips & the carbon footprint?!!
I recently got the wood chip pellet boiler installed with thanks to the [Atfar Construction team - again!]. To my amazement I could buy wood chip pellets as easy as a bag of coal. Thats good… ?? Well, you might think so. How I heat my office is another post but for those who dont [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 0 comments }plan[t] a herb garden
a herb is defined as both an aromatic plant that is used for flavouring in cookery & medicine and a seed-bearing plant whose parts above the ground die back a the end of the growing season. What I have here is parsley [petroselinum crispum], mint [curley], oregano [origanum vulgaris], sorrel [broadleaf], thyme [thymus faustinii], lavender [...]
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