Ebb and Flow of Soil Fertility in the Polytunnel Garden
A Rock Garden Great for Low Maintenance Landscaping One of the easiest and maybe the cheapest ways to enhance the landscape around your home is to build a rock garden….
8 Ways to use a Compost Sieve
Beginning Gardeners and Organic Seed: Part I Beginning gardeners can learn skills to help them use organic seeds and growing practices. A successful first harvest can result from planting easy…
Testing and Remineralising the Soil in a new Polytunnel
How to Create a Beneficial Rain Garden Step by Step Did you know that with an established rain garden you will have no mosquitoes, no maintenance, no mowing, no weeding,…
How Much Water Is Enough?
Talking to Plants and Garden Conversations Studies indicate that talking to plants could actually improve their vigor and vitality. Talking harshly to them could have adverse effects. Planting Organic Cabbage…
Dealing with Drought in Ireland
Don’t Crop The Top – Stop The Texas Chainsaw Massacre I’ve been in the tree service industry for over a decade. I still cringe every time I see a topped…
The Grower’s Paradox
Choosing The Most ‘Sociable’ Foods for Your Events Food isn’t just about keeping your stomach lined and avoiding hunger pangs, it’s also a very social activity which serves an important…