Harvesting homegrown vegetables can be just as important as growing them as some crops can quickly go past their best and loose precious flavour and texture. Harvesting at just the ….Read more
Square Foot Vegetable Gardening Using Timber Raised Beds
What is Square Foot Gardening? Square foot gardening is a method of growing vegetables which centers around planting crops in blocks rather than rows. The system divides the growing space ….Read more
Top 10 Mothers Day Gardening Gifts 2015
Mothers Day 2015 Mothers Day 2015 is on sunday the 15th of March in Ireland. It is one of those days that lands on a different date each year, which is why ….Read more
The Vegetable Garden in Early Spring
Well, it’s been a while. I always have great intentions to write more articles every month but time seems to slip by so easily with the day to day business ….Read more
Growing Vegetables In Urban Planters – Container Gardening
Urban Planters / Container Gardening for vegetable growers. An image blog post. Wooden Wine Boxes make great little planters for herbs and salads.
Seaweed and Potatoes
A Protective Seaweed Mulch I took the opposite photo in early January, it’s frosty seaweed obviously but it’s in my garden rather than on the beach. I prepared most of ….Read more
How To Grow The Best Tomato Seedlings
One of the things first time vegetable gardeners ask about when they call or email us is tomatoes – everyone wants to grow their own tomatoes. This is a bit ….Read more
How to Make a Heat Bench Propagator Using a Soil Warming Cable.
We propagate large amounts of vegetable seedlings in the early spring so need some heat to get them going. Clearly a heated propagator or heat mat isn’t really practical as ….Read more
Germinating Vegetable Seeds in a Heated Propagator
If you’re staring off your vegetable plants in early Spring you’ll need to give them some heat as temperatures will be too cold for the seeds to germinate. If you’re ….Read more
Growing Potatoes
For me potatoes are the backbone of the vegetable garden. You get them in relatively early and apart from some earthing up and keeping an eye out for blight there ….Read more