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  • Hungry Bin vs Hotbin (Composter Comparison)

    Hungry Bin vs Hotbin (Composter Comparison)

    Home composting is a fantastic way of killing two birds with one stone. You can process garden and kitchen waste (and reduce your bin collection costs) while at the same time producing your ......
  • Compost Bin Comparisons - The Best Home Composters

    Compost Bin Comparisons - The Best Home Composters

    As bin charges increase and households try to be more environment friendly, we are seeing a corresponding increase in home composting. We have been interested in domestic composting for a long time ......
  • How To Speed Up the Composting Process

    How To Speed Up the Composting Process

    Composting is a natural process that transforms your food scraps and garden waste into rich, crumbly ‘black gold’: the finest soil enhancer you can get your hands on. However, for the ea ......
  • A Guide to Making Homemade Compost

    A Guide to Making Homemade Compost

    Why Compost in the first place? Composting is the best thing you can do for your vegetable garden. It is the natural process that returns the nutrients used by growing plants back to the soil. Veget ......
  • 5 Uses for Autumn Leaves

    5 Uses for Autumn Leaves

    There's something quite pleasant about raking up autumn leaves: it feels like such an ancient, seasonal practice that it connects you not only with the current yearly cycle, but to the same dependab ......
  • Making your own 'Black Gold' with the new Subpod Wormery

    Making your own 'Black Gold' with the new Subpod Wormery

    We talked a couple of weeks ago about how adding well rotted organic matter to your garden soil is the number one way to grow the best vegetables. One of the key ingredients is your own home produced ......
  • When Do I Add Compost To My Garden?

    When Do I Add Compost To My Garden?

    Whether it’s homegrown or store-bought, compost plays a vital role in the health of your soil, and healthy soil makes for healthy plant growth. But you may be asking yourself: What is the bes ......
  • Planting Potatoes in March

    Planting Potatoes in March

    Depending on your location early potatoes are planted in mid March once the days begin to warm. To be fair, the soil is probably warm enough to plant now in most gardens but what you need to be ca ......
  • Recognising Aminopyralid Weedkiller Contamination in Manure

    Recognising Aminopyralid Weedkiller Contamination in Manure

    Mackerel sky Before we get going, here's a photo I took on Monday morning while out walking the dog showing a pretty 'mackerel sky' which, as you know, signals a change in the weather. The old sailo ......
  • Reducing Food Waste

    Reducing Food Waste

    Food waste is a significant social issue with far-reaching consequences for the environment. According to the EPA, Ireland generated 835,000 tonnes of food waste in 2023 - or 162 kg of food waste pe ......
  • What are the Best Garden Soil Improvers?

    What are the Best Garden Soil Improvers?

    For the home gardener there is absolutely nothing more important than their soil. Soil is the life blood of the garden and its makeup will have a big influence on your successes or failures.  G ......
  • The Benefits of Mulching in the Garden

    The Benefits of Mulching in the Garden

    Mulching is the practice of covering the soil surface with a layer of material to protect your plants or to insulate or improve your garden soil. It’s a widely used technique in landscaping an ......
  • What are Green Manures?

    What are Green Manures?

    As my garden moves into autumn and I harvest and clear spent crops from my beds, I am looking at an increasing number of empty spaces. Some of these gaps will be filled with autumn or overwintering ......
  • Delivery

    Delivery

    Ireland & Northern Ireland* Standard Delivery Rate is €5.95  (GLS)Seed Packet Orders are €2.95Free Delivery for members on orders over €75You can easily sign up here at no co ......