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Gardening Courses & Classes
Garden courses and classes started taking place in March 2010 after I was asked if I would run one. Primarily, it was very much a case of as demand came in and so on they continued. The immediate...
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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...
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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...
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Potatoes
... I grew these potatoes some months ago from seed. I think it was about €2.50 for a half litre pot of seed. I simply popped them twice their depth below the surface. Mine came into flower and passed...
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Onion – Planting Season Has Just Begun
On Sunday I arrived back to find a little parcel of onion sets – and some garlic sets – both of the same family [allium] anyway, had been dropped at my door. I’ve spoke here about onions and garlic...
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The Cheaters Guide To Growing Your own
It is a question that comes up a lot…. Mainly from people who have a job, 42 kids, a life, a dog and a door bell. A lot of which will fit into the category of I’ve got maybe 10 minutes in the evening....
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Growing Your Own [Seeds] On A Budget
I spoke with Philip Voice on Fridays SodShow about how growing your own, although often sold with the attached tagline ‘and save yourself money’, it can sometimes prove more expensive than actually...
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Growing Onions
I’ve mentioned onions here before. But I was asked for an instructional video on how to plant… so here it is. Let me know how you get on. More importantly…. enjoy
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The Fruit Garden
I returned from my August bank holiday, after four nights camping it out in the great outdoors to a scenario that I thought mildly beyond my belief. Branches of my plum trees were touching ground level...
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Grow Your Own Raised Beds
If you are going to invest in raised vegetable beds for the purposes of growing your own kitchen garden or more, then there is only one real way to do it. Enquires, getting some built suited to your...
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Growing in Old Tractor Tyres
Perfect for small spaces and cheaper than chips! Tall as you like to stack ‘em and just roll ‘em if you need to move ‘em….. If made to measure raised planters aren’t your scene then this may just be...
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Myth: Grow Your Own And Save Yourself Money
[image courtesy artofmanliness.com] I have heard too many green companies people for far too much of the what can only now be described as the grow your own pandemic use the cliché: Grow Your Own and...
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Garden Talk @ New Ireland Assurance
A little note of huge and gigantic thanks to the very lovely and wonderful staff of New Ireland Assurance where this evening I gave a ‘Grow Your Own – In Confined Spaces’ talk/ demonstration. People...
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Primary School Class To Sell Their Own Veg
listen to ‘Dans 5th Class Grow Their Own ’ on Audioboo You may remember some months back, Fingal Libraries asked me to come up with and teach a 6 part gardening course to [including] Dan’s 5th class in...
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The GIY Rathgar Terenure Talk
I got an email in some time ago from a friend of mine. Séan wanted me to do a talk on growing your own. He is a member of a new movement call GIY – grow it yourself – that seems to be sweeping the...
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Sorrel – Rumex acetosa
... Not to be confused with the common dock, also Rumex, which may cause mild stomach upset if ingested. To the sorrel, I simply love it. It is one of the greatest plants I have ever invested money in....
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Irish Independent 10th May 2010
... It was the last course I did in grow your own and Susan Daly came out to my home in Ballyboughal [North County Nowhere, Dublin] and did the grow your own class. She then covered it in Mondays [may...
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Grow Your Own Course
course title: grow your own kitchen garden where: ballyboughal [just outside Swords, north Dublin] when: saturday 22nd May 2010 time: 10am – 2pm cost: €60 numbers limit: 8/9 people max Details: After...
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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/...
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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...
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