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Planting Roses in Your Garden🌹
Planting Roses in Your Garden🌹

Roses are the true classic of gardening. They were one of the first flowering plants introduced from Asia where they have been cultivated since around...

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Seamróg (Shamrock)🍀
Seamróg (Shamrock)🍀

Well St Patricks day is only around the corner and so it would be wrong not to mention this little clover and give a little history about it.  T...

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Diseases- Blight
Diseases- Blight

Ireland has the perfect climate for fungi, especially at this time of year. The hard frosts have lifted, the temperature is slightly rising and everyt...

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Grow Your Own Tomatoes 🍅
Grow Your Own Tomatoes 🍅

The Tomato plant is a must have for any vegetable gardener. In fact I don't think I know of any veg gardener that doesn't have tomatoes growin...

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Grow Your Own Garlic 🧄
Grow Your Own Garlic 🧄

Garlic is one of the most loved food ingredients here in Ireland. Bolognaise, shepherds pie, lamb, salad dressings, the list goes on and on. Very few ...

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Grow Your Own Broad Beans 🫛
Grow Your Own Broad Beans 🫛

Broad Beans (Vicia faba) Broad beans also known as Fava beans (yep from the movie) are a fantastic crop to try if you are an inexperienced gardener. ...

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What Plants are Toxic & Not Toxic for Your Pets 🐶
What Plants are Toxic & Not Toxic for Your Pets 🐶

A lot of us have pets, not just cat's and dogs, but hamsters, gerbils, rabbits and even snakes in some braver cases.  They provide us with a...

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Giving Birds A Home (end the birds housing crisis!) 🐦
Giving Birds A Home (end the birds housing crisis!) 🐦

With all the building and clearing of vegetation that goes on these days our little feathered friends are finding it more difficult to find places to ...

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Winter Fruit Tree Care - Pruning 🍏
Winter Fruit Tree Care - Pruning 🍏

It's a common misconception to think that once we have gone to the trouble of planting our fruit trees that we can then just ignore them and reap ...

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Grow Your Own Potatoes 🥔
Grow Your Own Potatoes 🥔

Ireland has a long history with potatoes but we haven't lost any of our love for the humble spud and we go through a whopping 455,000 tonnes of th...

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Grow Your Own Chilli's 🌶️
Grow Your Own Chilli's 🌶️

Chilli peppers (Capsicum annuum) were actually discovered by Europeans in the Americas (Ecuador/Peru for example) as early as 1560. Our diets here in ...

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Christmas Tree Farewell: What to do with your Christmas Tree
Christmas Tree Farewell: What to do with your Christmas Tree

Nollaig na mban or Women's Christmas is the date on our calendars where the women rest and the men take over the household duties. It takes place ...

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