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Fencing and Fences
The following are just some examples of what is available off the shelf. One can of course get theirs tailor made perfectly, styled and coloured to suit their space in the great outdoors. I’ve been...
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Use Water Sensibly
The weather quite recently in Ireland has been tipping the 20 celcius mark. For some, the purchase of some plants from that good looking gardener [ ] that you intend to plant may not actually take...
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Recycled Car Tyre Garden Mulch
Made in Ireland from recycled car tyres. This might just be your newest readily available alternate to the usual garden bark mulch. The advantages, by my logic, is that it wouldn’t need to be...
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Your Garden Advice
I get asked a lot of garden related questions. Some, some may agree with, some there may just be a better way of doing it. I don’t mind that in so far as I know I will give my best at that time. I am...
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Weeds
I tend to speak out loud when I’m typing. Like a sort of narrated muttering reeling inside my head for approximately eight hundred plus words that you read every week. The relevance of me explaining...
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A non-Garden-er Group ?
It is Sunday May 29th as I’m typing this weeks piece and I’ve just returned from doing the fifth outing for the garden group that I started last year. What goes through my brain and why I decide to...
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The SodShow – 103.2 Dublin City Fm – 10 June 2011
Listen! The SodShow – Fridays 3pm – 103.2 Dublin City Fm Listen to The SodShow in MP3 – or – subscribe/ listen to the podcast in iTunes. Alternatively, subscribe to the blog and listen to them right...
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Create Your Family Garden
If I hear the word…. …in these recessionary times…. …one more effing time, I may just spontaneously combust. I’ve had it. I’ve had it the media, with RTE, RTE Prime Time, RTE Frontline, The Week in...
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The Honesty Bucket
I passed this in Ballyboughal on my way home on Saturday. A slightly different way to sell your fruit and vegetable produce maybe, but one that really made me smile. I like it.
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Mullach Lough, County Cavan
Located near Virginia County Cavan, I stumbled across this lake very much by accident. From one of the brochures I found this information: Mullach Lake was formed by huge glaciers during the last ice...
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Garden Group Outing: The Hedgerow Fruit Trail
The 6th Garden Group outing takes place this weekend coming Sunday August 7th. The hedgerow walk has been done before but, this time the route should be in full fruit. Date: This Sunday August 7th...
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This Garden-ers Blog
In 2008 I wrote a post to answer the then so over asked question: Why do I write a garden blog ? It seems an updated answer is required. First, wikipedia defines: A blog (a blend of the term web log)...
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Poll: Will You Be Planting A New Tree In Your Garden This Year ?
Take Our Poll Before the end of 2012 and as tree season nears ever so closer, the question is….. Will you be planting a new tree in your garden this year ? Results to be announced on the SodShow this...
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Paisean Faisean: The Irish Hedge
Hedge n 1 a fence or boundary formed by closely growing bushes or shrubs In equal measures, in my past, I did so passionately adore everything that is an Irish garden hedge and also entirely abhor the...
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On The Radio: Breakfast With Hector on 2fm
Wednesday 25th April, that’s today, I’ll be on the radio chatting gardens with Hector. The show kicks off from 7am and you can listen online via 2fm.rte.ie/hector or @ 90-92 on the FM (I must g00gle...
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Multyfarnham Country Fair – April 17th 2011
The Multyfarnham Country Fair takes place Sunday 17th April 2011. Listen! The audio is with thanks to Anne O’Hara of Mornington House who has featured on the garden blog before and also on the garden...
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A Closer Look At The Moon, The Stars & Saturn
I had heard that todays moon was supposed to be the brightest for a long time. So on Sunday night [today as I write] when my good friend Philip text me to come down and look at some stars.I did. What...
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A Gardens Balancing Act
This article was written for and published in The Tribesman newpaper Wednesday 6th April 2011. It’s never a bad week to be a gardener in this country, well, not as far as this happy fellow is...
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Inis Mór
I was on Inis Mór to do a half marathon for Temple Street Childrens Hospital. I felt it only right to seperate the two and give the island a post to itself. Getting to the island can be done in a few...
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Four Live on RTE – Friday 15th April
Friday 15th saw me appear on RTE’s Four Live show.You can watch it on RTE Player. I think it stays there for about 2 weeks or so Here’s RTE’s blurb on what I was talking about… Ireland have been...
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