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A Guide to Bird Nesting Boxes

A Guide to Bird Nesting Boxes

21.02.2025

A bird friendly garden is a garden that feels more alive. The ambience of birdsong and the flutter of wings lend a serene air to our surroundings, as well as ad … Read more

21.02.2025

How to Make a Garden Pond

How to Make a Garden Pond

07.01.2025

Like so many garden projects, designing a pond requires careful planning. There are many options to consider depending on use, size, shape, material and situati … Read more

By admin
07.01.2025

Urban Gardening Tool Essentials

Urban Gardening Tool Essentials

05.11.2024

Urban gardening often involves having to make the most of small spaces. Just how much space you have to work with will depend on circumstance, but it’s po … Read more

05.11.2024

Ergonomic Gardening Tools

Ergonomic Gardening Tools

04.11.2024

Gardening has been going on in some shape or form since time immemorial, so it’s natural that garden tools tend to follow a traditional design depending on … Read more

04.11.2024

Vintage Garden Tools

Vintage Garden Tools

08.05.2024

We all know that gardening can sometimes be an expensive hobby, and when it comes to garden tools it can be tempting to go for the cheaper option where one … Read more

08.05.2024

Commercial Composting Solutions

Commercial Composting Solutions

14.03.2024

Plastic may have taken much of the attention in recent years, but food waste continues to be a pressing issue affecting the environment.  It was est … Read more

14.03.2024

Essential Greenhouse Accessories

Essential Greenhouse Accessories

29.11.2023

It's one thing to have your greenhouse all set up, installed and ready to go for the new season. However an empty greenhouse is a bit like an empty house; … Read more

29.11.2023

Garden Arches & Arbours

Garden Arches & Arbours

13.06.2023

Garden arches are a great way of adding some vertical character to your garden or outdoors. They can be used to provide support for climbing plants or serve as a … Read more

13.06.2023

Garden Party Furniture

Garden Party Furniture

02.05.2023

Garden furniture is often designed or bought with relaxation or solitary ‘me time’ in mind, but that’s far from the only option. The garden can be a great place … Read more

02.05.2023

Automatic Garden Watering Systems

Automatic Garden Watering Systems

18.04.2023

Having some kind of automatic system set up to irrigate your plants is beneficial for a number of reasons: It frees you up to take care of other garden … Read more

18.04.2023

Wooden Garden Benches

Wooden Garden Benches

17.04.2023

The garden isn’t just for working in - it’s also a great place to sit and gather your thoughts, soak in the ambience of nature, or relax in the outdoors wi … Read more

17.04.2023

Vegepod Self Watering Raised Bed

Vegepod Self Watering Raised Bed

14.03.2023

The unique selling point of the Vegepod is that it combines some of the benefits of raised bed gardening with those of growing under cover or in a cont … Read more

14.03.2023

Thermo Compost Bins

Thermo Compost Bins

02.03.2023

If you're looking for a composting solution that's somewhere between a traditional static pile and the larger insulated composters, The Thermo range of composter … Read more

02.03.2023

Grow Your Own Oyster Mushrooms.

Grow Your Own Oyster Mushrooms.

21.12.2022

We pay them scant attention and know so little about them, yet fungi are critical to our survival. They support us indirectly by recycling carbon rich orga … Read more

21.12.2022

Essential Garden Tools

Essential Garden Tools

25.04.2022

As the garden is currently in the process of springing into life and we have 'work' to do, it might be a good idea to have a look at some of the essent … Read more

By Andrew
25.04.2022

The Incredible Hungry Bin Worm Composter

The Incredible Hungry Bin Worm Composter

10.01.2020

One of the best (and the most fun) ways to make compost is back! Innovators that we are, we had taken in a small stock of these sturdy compost bins last year but … Read more

By admin
10.01.2020

New Quickcrop Fruit Cage/Bird Net Kits

New Quickcrop Fruit Cage/Bird Net Kits

23.05.2019

I did manage to do a test build of our new fruit cage system over the weekend. The photo above shows the frame without the net obviously but this is simply att … Read more

By admin
23.05.2019

Sheen X300 Flamegun  Product Review

Sheen X300 Flamegun Product Review

17.10.2018

Weeding the garden is an ongoing process that never seems to end and, of all the jobs in the garden, appears to be the most time consuming.  We ca … Read more

By admin
17.10.2018

Solar Garden Lights

Solar Garden Lights

03.10.2018

The clocks haven’t yet gone back and the leaves are still on the trees but there is definitely a change in the light. I love my time spent in the garden and will … Read more

By admin
03.10.2018

The Quickcrop Garden Irrigation System

The Quickcrop Garden Irrigation System

29.08.2018

The Quickcrop Garden Irrigation System can be adapted to suit a range of vegetable garden design layouts using a selection of connectors, hoses, valves and ti … Read more

By admin
29.08.2018

Building a timber fruit cage

Building a timber fruit cage

17.11.2017

My weekend work for the last 2 weeks has been building our new fruit cage video location. The plan, as I think I mentioned in a previous mail, is to film a new s … Read more

By admin
17.11.2017

The Quickcrop Pea and Bean Frame

The Quickcrop Pea and Bean Frame

14.02.2017

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 t … Read more

By admin
14.02.2017

The Polytunnel in January

The Polytunnel in January

25.01.2017

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. In m … Read more

By admin
25.01.2017

How do I make my own wooden compost bin?

How do I make my own wooden compost bin?

12.10.2015

Hello and welcome back to the Quickcrop garden. Well, it’s a beautiful day in mid September and today we are going to build one of our large New Zealand Box … Read more

By admin
12.10.2015

Raised Bed Covers

Raised Bed Covers

14.08.2015

Raised beds are better for growing vegetables because they raise them off the ground level, protecting them from foot traffic and creating a more comfortable wor … Read more

By admin
14.08.2015

A French Vegetable Garden

A French Vegetable Garden

07.07.2015

I have always been a bit jealous of my brother in law as despite not being he worlds best linguist he manages to communicate no matter what country he finds hims … Read more

By admin
07.07.2015

Soil Improvement for Vegetable Gardeners

Soil Improvement for Vegetable Gardeners

23.07.2014

Healthy vegetables need a healthy soil, it's as simple as that. It is possible to grow vegetables in poor soil by using artificial fertilizers but the quality … Read more

By admin
23.07.2014

Top 10 Mothers Day Gardening Gifts 2015

Top 10 Mothers Day Gardening Gifts 2015

11.03.2014

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 … Read more

By admin
11.03.2014

Firewood, Baskets and Log Storage boxes

Firewood, Baskets and Log Storage boxes

16.10.2013

We had a lot of emails regarding the supply of dry firewood after a mail I sent out about wicker wood and turf baskets. Niall did a fair bit of legwork and th … Read more

By admin
16.10.2013

Harvest Time Heroes

Harvest Time Heroes

31.07.2013

If your garden is anything like mine you've been reaping the rewards of the good weather with a fantastic crop of fresh vegetables. So much worked for me this ye … Read more

By admin
31.07.2013

Where to buy vegetable seedlings online

Where to buy vegetable seedlings online

30.04.2013

.Buying plug plants is the key to easy vegetable growing as veg seedlings already started cut out a lot of the tricky stuff that can put off a novice grower. … Read more

By admin
30.04.2013

Sowing seed in modular trays

Sowing seed in modular trays

08.02.2013

My vegetable growing career took a serious shot in the arm when Niall and myself started Quickcrop. This was mainly due to our association with two of the bes … Read more

By admin
08.02.2013

Sow Easy Grow - Grow Grid

08.02.2013

I spent last Summer dreading weeding my vegetable garden as time pressure meant the hoe didn't get used as much as it should. I'm not the best weeder in the w … Read more

By admin
08.02.2013

3 Best Rhubarb Varieties

3 Best Rhubarb Varieties

15.10.2012

Rhubarb is a fantastic plant for any vegetable garden as it comes up every year and will produce an excellent crop with the minimum of maintenance. It is perf … Read more

By admin
15.10.2012

New Tool Time

New Tool Time

14.08.2012

Using the right tools really does make life in the vegetable garden a whole lot easier. I'm a little bit of a tool nut myself and do find myself gravitating t … Read more

By admin
14.08.2012