The Sodcast – Episode 4
Listen to The Sodcast in MP3 – or – as always you can subscribe or/ and listen to the podcast via iTunes. Alternatively you can subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed Episode 3 of the garden podcast ? On The Garden Blog This Week: robinia pseudoacacia frisia the perfect clients garden Images for [...]
{ Podcast, all posts } { One comment }Strawberry Plant Babies
It can really get on my goat when the grow your own and save yourself money marketing brigade continue to thrust their [not so] ideal[s] upon the ordinary Joe punter gardener. Let me put this in context, when a bag of compost costs €6 and the strawberry plants cost €3 and you or I may [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 2 comments }Bird Boxes
The bird box has always been something I’ve queried. I don’t know why. I just feel/ felt that they would always be better off making their own. Is that fair to say….? Either or, I wanted two in the garden just for the craic of it. You know, to see would they come. These two [...]
{ all posts, make and do } { One comment }The [Un]usual Planter
Here, you have that. You might be able to do something with it…. That’s quite a regular statement I hear actually. Surprised ? I wasn’t. It’s not the most unusual object I’ve ever been handed. I like the odd challenge and this one was a doddle. Yesterday I filled the container with some pebble. More [...]
{ all posts, make and do } { One comment }Hanging The Hanging Baskets Alternate
There’s an odd little spot in my garden, right beside my washing line area and at the back of my shed/ chicken house. I felt it needed something a little…. to brighten the place up. Hanging baskets seemed like a good idea, but then they may pose problems with wet compost and such dripping on [...]
{ all posts, make and do } { 2 comments }The Sodcast – Episode 1
Listen to The Sodcast in MP3 – or – as always you can subscribe to the podcast via iTunes, or else you can simply subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed last weeks garden podcast ? Thank You: Remember Luke Donegan. No relation. Seriously! He did the Garden Group Weblog Logo ? Luke made [...]
{ Podcast, all posts } { 3 comments }Grow Your Own Garden Class
course title: grow your own garden class where: ballyboughal [just outside Swords, north Dublin] when: saturday 21st August 2010 time: 9.30am – 3.30pm cost: €75 – including morning tea, lunch and all materials numbers limit: minimum of 8 and 12 people max Who is it for: If you don’t wish to farm your entire garden [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { 2 comments }A Sound Weekend
More a weekend of sound…. see what you think ? Friday evening – pitch and putt club annual outing Ended up in playing guitar in the resulting trad session Saturday, I met Ger who was checking the mosture in barley After I dropped into Philip who makes elder flower champagne Sunday morning, listening to the [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 3 comments }Promoting The Horticultural Industry ?
Your thoughts…..? Email, call or call by and I’ll make you a cuppa
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { One comment }Podcasts @ The Dot Conf
A Visit to The Dot Conf website is well worth a visit. Before I go any further…. not surprising, the dot conf conference has been a sell out for some weeks now and its waiting list only. I think its 300 people attending. [?] My good friend Darren Byrne and Phil O’Kane then did these [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { One comment }Dublin [Rose] Festival ?
Fresh from the rose festival here are my thoughts…. This is what I got from the Dublin Event Guide DUBLIN ROSE FESTIVAL – ST. ANNE’S PARK; RAHENY The Dublin City Rose Festival will be held on the 17+18 July from 10:30-18:00 in St.Anne’s Park, Raheny, Dublin 5. Apart from the horticultural aspect of the festival [...]
{ all posts, courses/ gigs/ events } { One comment }Beautiful Cow Competition
Saturday 10th July saw the North Dublin Dairy show 2010 get under way. The highlight is of course, what can only be described as the beautiful cow competition. I met with 22 year old farmer Michael Connell Jnr to find out more. Earlier, I had met Jim Scully, secretary of The Dublin Milk Producers. Listening [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { One comment }Irish Milk ?
Irish farmers at present get just under 29 cents per litre of milk. Astonishingly, around 25% of all milk consumed in south of Ireland is imported. Consider also that there used to be 40 milk producers in Dublin and that there are now just 19. I personally am becoming quite concerned that the milk my [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 3 comments }Cutting Hedge
To an extent, this is a difficult one to write…. To cut a hedge properly is like putting in writing how to kick a football. Anyone can do it, but how many can do it right or more to the point how many have ever done a seriously bad job on attempting to do good [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 3 comments }Garden Radio: Gardening Advice Podcast #5
I shoud get someone to me one of those radio dj intro jingles….. hence the donegan garden radio bit above…. did you just hum a jingle in your head ? To the garden, as always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo or you subscribe to the blog and listen to [...]
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