Growing garlic is one of my favourite jobs in the vegetable garden, it is pretty much trouble free to grow and adds wonderful flavours to our home cooking. Homegrown garlic ….Read more
How to grow onions
Onions are some of the easiest things to grow and require very little looking after. As our friend Dermot Carey (last head gardener of Lissadell House) says if you can’t ….Read more
Dealing with Potato Blight
I think I mentioned last week that haven’t been spending as much time as I should have in the vegetable garden due to the uninspiring weather we have been having ….Read more
Sowing and planting in an August Vegetable Garden
I must admit I’m finding it a little difficult to write my usual [overly] enthusiastic post today as my garden isn’t quite the paradise it normally is at this time ….Read more
Raised bed Covers
Raised Bed Covers Raised bed covers are essential for your raised vegetable garden if you want to grow later in the year and overwinter, or get an early start in ….Read more
Fencing with James
This is a follow up to a weekly newsletter post where I mentioned a guy who worked with me a number of years ago who was always good for a ….Read more
Making Crop Protection Tunnels for Raised Beds
If you are thinking about building some raised vegetable beds to make you kitchen garden a whole lot easier to manage you might want to consider our revolutionary new raised ….Read more
Mid July in the Vegetable garden
Planting Christmas potatoes in July If you have some spare space in your vegetable garden in July you could put in some ‘Second Cropping’ potatoes for a late Autumn/Winter harvest. ….Read more
Raised Bed Square Foot Gardening
How to plant your own Raised bed vegetable garden using the Quickcrop Square Foot garden method. Square foot gardening is all about taking advantage of smaller spaces and raised garden ….Read more
A French Vegetable Garden in Languedoc
I have always been a bit jealous of my brother in law as despite not being the worlds best linguist he manages to communicate no matter what country he finds ….Read more