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Seasonal Container Growing with GIY at Bloom Festival

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[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/273719844″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] Hello All! As most of you know (mostly because I’ve hardly shut up about it since), back in June, I had the good fortune to spend a few days with GIY at their Food Matters tent at Bloom festival. Well, the lovely GIY gang have a soundcloud page […]

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Kale: why this lovely crop is the superhero of the veggie garden

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You know on Halloween, just before you’d go out trick or treatin’, your Ma would serve you up a steaming plate of colcannon which you’d eat reluctantly in the wishes of finding some cash hidden inside? No? Then you’re not bleedin’ Irish. Colcannon on Halloween is a distinctly Irish tradition for a distinctly Irish holiday.

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How to grow courgettes – from a gardener who always kills them

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Courgettes are one of the staples of a vegetable garden, they are prolific croppers and supposedly very easy to grow.  But I’m going to let you in on a dirty little secret of mine: I’ve had an absolute disaster of a time attempting to grow courgettes most years.   In fact, I have only been successful

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Strawberries

How to care for strawberries – and create a clone army

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I spend an awful lot of time writing long, philosophical posts about how great gardening is (because it is) and how much it has changed my life (because it has), but I’d like to spend a little bit more time actually writing about the plants I grow, some tips for growing them yourselves and asking

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Why Food Mattered with GIY at Bloom

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There’s something strange afoot in Ireland the past week. The temperature’s soarin’, the sun’s a blarin’, the skin’s a burnin’, the shorts are shortenin’, the freckles are spreadin’, the barbecues burnin’, the beer gardens hoppin’ and the thunder’s a clappin’; somewhere there’s probably maids a milkin’, pipers pipin’ and lords a leapin’ and there were

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Happily Ever After

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Once upon a time there was a small, barren patch of land in a field in North County Dublin.  This square of muck was unloved and unworked, yearning for a gardener to come along and tend to it. One day, a young woman stood at its borders, surveying it’s potential and the patch of land

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