Cultivating home grown vegetables is a simple pleasure that anyone can experience, even if you have limited space. We don’t all have the benefit of a large garden with room ….Read more
How To Make Compost
Get composting! Learn how to make compost in a few minutes. If you enjoy gardening you will inevitably end up with garden waste you need to get rid of while ….Read more
Top Ten Easiest Vegetables to Grow
Easy Vegetables To Grow Good soil is the secret to easy vegetable growing, in truth if your soil is well fed with quality compost and well rotted manure most vegetables ….Read more
How to Germinate Seeds Successfully
A plant seed is created to grow and will perform that task admirably once given the opportunity. For successful germination seeds need a suitable growing medium, moderate moisture and warmth ….Read more
Burtown Kitchen Garden Diary – How To Build a Polytunnel
This week we have our second installment of the Burtown Kitchen Garden Diary where we see Dermot building a new polytunnel on the site to broaden the choice of fruit ….Read more
The Quickcrop Pea and Bean Frame
The Quickcrop Pea and Bean Frame is a support system designed for growing your own climbing garden peas and beans. Freshly picked home grown peas are one of the most ….Read more
Sowing and germinating vegetable seeds
We are now moving into the time of year when we start to sow seeds (for those of you not reading this article ‘hot from the oven’ it is the ….Read more
The Polytunnel in January
While I do spend plenty of happy time in the garden in January there really isn’t a whole lot you can do other than preparing things for the season ahead. ….Read more
Burtown Kitchen Garden Diary – Dividing and Planting Rhubarb
As you may know I keep in touch with Dermot Carey (ex head gardener at Lissadell House) and like to hear about the projects he is working on in his ….Read more
Rathdooney Vegetable Garden Blog – Jan 10th
I am sure you are sick of seeing pictures of my potatoes by now but I ended up digging out another barrow full of them on Sunday while I prepared ….Read more