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 }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 }The Great Outdoors Weekend Podcast
As always you can rss the podcasts via iTunes or direct via audioboo or you can subscribe to the blog and listen to them right here. Missed last weeks garden podcast ? Got a note from bernie over the weekend: That’s our boy @donegangardens easily cresting above yer man Ray Foley. Seems the podcast hit number 2 in the [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { One comment }The Weekend Gardeners Podcast
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 them right here. Missed last weeks garden podcast ? Links From the blog: fruit trees – get some planted the garden group is to visit the battle of the boyne [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { One comment }Irish Times 31st May 2010
I got a call last week from Conor. He was doing this article on Grow Your Own and asked for some thoughts. To the pieces I know that I have written that may refer to my quotes below. Grow your own kits cheaper than B and Q. I think it’s a logic alternate piece. There [...]
{ all posts, media } { 2 comments }Peter Donegan Gardening Podcast #2
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. Missed last weeks garden podcast? As per the podcast – here are the links: Skerries – lovely town – go see the skerries mills btw Basil, Chives and Coriander – [...]
{ all posts, garden advice } { 3 comments }10 [New] Green Questions….
It was by freak accident that the 10 green questions started. And they seem to have proved very popular. 10 comedians [?] later I’m now looking for 10 new green[ish] questions. It’s a bit of fun. It may even make you giggle a bit. God knows some people could do with a bit of that [...]
{ all posts, smile...? } { 6 comments }Donabate Allotments
I was talking to Trevor Sargeant at another gig. Trying to find a time that suited us both to meet we settled on meeting at the allotments in Donabate on Saturday morning. However which way it happened we missed each other. I took a walk around anyway and I have to say I was very [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 2 comments }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 }Today Fm Sunday 28 February 2010
This Sunday 28th February sometime after 10am, I’ll be a guest on the Today Fm Sunday Business Show. It’s not my first time on the radio, although it is my first on Today FM. Happily Surprisingly, for some I won’t be on to talk about horticulture as such The show itself is described as offering… [...]
{ all posts, media } { 3 comments }The Guardian Newspaper – The New Carbon Hypocrites…?
Today I got a message noting the guardians coverage of a nice story World’s coral reefs could disintegrate by 2100 Researchers at Carnegie Institution say corals are being overwhelmed by rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere This is the original post for The Guardian by Ian Sample, science correspondent, in San Diego…. It even has [...]
{ all posts, grow your own } { 0 comments }Nominated For The Irish Blog Awards 2010
Last year this weblog was nominated for the irish blog awards 2009. And this year somebody nominated this green blog again As you are most likely well aware there is a long way to go and so I shall [appropriately] quote myself from last year once again… That said – awards or not, it is [...]
{ all posts, techie } { 2 comments }St Valentines Shouldn’t Cost The Earth …?
I got a ghetto blaster for Valentines day……. Look! It’s even got a twin deck record cassette system…. I reeeeaaaally L-O-V-E that gurl…. For me, when I got to about the age of 22, the big splash had been made. I bought her a VHS player…. ja uber romantische! but that was pre jewelery days [...]
{ all posts, ireland } { 3 comments }Irish Gardening Online…?
I remember reading an article posted online by good friend and nursery man Pat Fitzgerald. It was about trying to promote the gardening industry. Here’s a little taster of what Pat had to say…. …we collect last years good condition gardening magazines and make some beneficial use of them instead of hoarding them. Why not [...]
{ all posts, horticulture in ireland } { 7 comments }Suggestions for 2010….?
The year 2009 [go take a look and come back....] saw me take on a very varying range of what some may call challenges. I’m wondering if 2010 will prove as much a challenge….? Now is your chance to recommend, suggest or get in touch. Whether it be in the form of a landscape project, [...]
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