The Sodcast – Episode 2
Listen to The Sodcast in MP3 – or – as always you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes. Alternatively you can subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed last weeks garden podcast ? First Up: This week the sodcast podcast was accepted by iTunes. Find the sodcast on iTunes here. If you [...]
{ Podcast, all posts } { One comment }The Gardeners Podcast Show
As always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo or yousubscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed last weeks garden podcast ? Links For The podcast: The garden Group Battle Of The Boyne Site visit Fertilising lawns Organic super markets Roseanne’s Crop Swap Irish food prices 2nd highest in Europe [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { 4 comments }Fruiting Investments
as always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo or you subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. As you can see from the first image we had a lot of flowers on the cherry trees a few months ago… Slight bit early maybe, I’m actually @donegangardens on [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { One comment }Coriander – Coriandrum
Some say it is used as an aphrodisiac. Others know it as chinese parsley or the parsley substitute. But whilst it maybe most used in abundance in cooking… it maybe a lesser known fact to some that the seeds are that used to make curry powder. Amn’t I just a mind full of trivial information. [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { One comment }Chives – Allium schoenoprasum
A bit like the sorrel plant, in the sense that this is another one of those just plant it and your pretty much sorted for life in this department. A member of the Allium or Onion [alliaceae/ lillaceae] family – the same family that gave you wild garlic, the supermarket garlic bulb and these really [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { One comment }Basil – Ocimum basilicum
The Ocimum [labiatae/ lamiaceae] are a genus of about 365 species of aromatic annuals and evergreen herbs. But – this is not lavender we are discussing. This is the herb we know as basil. With that in mind I am only interested in one type. There are other varieties, but I have chose what I [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 5 comments }May In The Garden
I’m slightly delayed on getting this one out…. but, I’m sure you possibly lazed up the sunshine last weekend and now you want to get the garden grooving. Since my April In The Garden Post, plant life has gone mental. Thank God. Temperatures are well up… in fact I think I got sunburnt yesterday. The [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 3 comments }April In The Garden
You’d know from the ‘March in the Garden’ post that I had just sown my seeds. Well germinated at this stage, the above photograph shows the results after just after 2 weeks. Growth is starting, slowly but surely and it seems to me we’re going to be on for a cracker of a season! I’d [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 3 comments }straw grass…?
I get loads of these…. some one liners…. some emails. Some without pictures But I try my best and quite enjoy answering them being honest Email in on Saturday from Melanie. Hi Peter, Thanks for this, myself and Alex are full of enthusiasm for the garden at the moment but neither of us have much [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 0 comments }The Right Time To Grow
With high day time temperatures, the sun factor increasing the warmth in the greenhouse well above the the teens and night time temperatures in the minus…. I could almost do a piece here on autumn colour but… it’s March and there are no leaves on the trees. So instead the resulting problem and piece is [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { One comment }March In The Garden
I haven’t done an ‘In the garden‘ session so far this year. Mainly because, well… I guess the snow, the rain, the cold and in such abundance just got a bit too much for me. Anyhow, that aside, it’s time to get grooving and moving and here is why and what I will be doing [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 0 comments }Moving A Tree
The weather outside for the last few months as long as I can remember now has been a disaster being quite frank. The funny thing about horticulture however is that life simply goes on. And when one misses out on a time frame of the season….. one often has to wait until the following year [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 0 comments }Lavender
The Lavandula [labiatae/ lamiaceae] A genus of about 25 species this fragrant beauty is an absolute must in any garden. Particularly high in nectar and therefore extremely attractive to bees, the answer from a domestic point of view is to be careful where exactly they are planted. A case of beneficial versus pest, possibly? Often [...]
{ all posts, plants } { 2 comments }November In The Garden
It is that time of year… some say it’s bloody depressing. But I like it. I don’t know why particularly… maybe it’s that I get home [a little] earlier… maybe it’s that I get to burn the timber that I have mamaged to amalgamate over the last eight months or so… I don’t know. To [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 5 comments }october in the garden…
The Sepember in the garden post seemed to go down quite well so… here’s your monthly bit for October. And a little music to read with… Now that your bedding plants have just about gone to pot and the garden [in some cases] maybe lacking a little inspiration… it’s time to take down those hanging [...]
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