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Month: September 2020
No Dig Garden Bed Preparation for Winter Planting
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The other day we harvested a bed of onions & carrots and freed up another bed where our broccoli had gone to flower. Now we have space to plant something new! In this video we are showing how simple bed preparation can be when using no dig. We mulched the beds with 3cm of compost […]
Root Vegetable Harvest Compilation – 6 Different Edible Tubers including Potatoes, Oca, Mashua etc..
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As part of our last Ancient Edible Tubers LIVE Stream we compiled some of the best bits of our tuber harvest videos with music. Included are the Potato, Oca, Mashua, Yacon, Apios & Jerusalem Artichoke. If you’re interested in more information about all of these tubers please feel free to check out our other videos […]
Horseradish Root Cuttings
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Horseradish is a great perennial root crop often used for seasoning & sauces. It’s very hardy and requires no attention. Vigorous root cuttings are freshly harvested on the day of shipping and sent out unwashed for extra preservation. Root cuttings can be planted in a pot to start them off or directly into the ground […]
Comfrey Root Cuttings – 2 Types
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Comfrey is traditionally known as knitbone with many uses both in the garden and in the homestead. The leaves make for great compost tea and mulching material as they are high in minerals and nitrogen. In permaculture, due to it’s deep tap root comfrey is known as a mineral accumulator and often planted under fruit […]
LIVE Stream – Ancient Edible Tubers – Growing, Harvesting, Storing & Cooking
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The next LIVE stream will be all about Ancient Edible Tubers. This includes tubers such as Oca, Mashua, Jerusalem Artichokes, Yacon, Tigernuts (Chufa), Ullucus & Cinnamon Vine. We’ll be showing you how to grow them and what sort of harvests we’ve had here in our cold temperate climate in the midlands of Ireland. We will […]
Thornless Blackberries Bare Root (Sold out)
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These blackberries are not just thornless but they have bigger fruits than their wild counterparts. Well worth growing perennial, easy to manage once growing up a trellis for easy harvesting keeping the fruit well off the ground. — PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A PRE SALE DUE TO HIGH DEMAND IN PREVIOUS YEARS AND PLANTS WILL […]
Raspberry Plants Bare Root (Sold Out)
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Excellent quality large fruits with almost zero maintenance and perennial plants. We’ve been growing this variety of raspberries for over 10 years now and they are a reliable cropper twice a year as they are primocane. This means they fruit in early summer off last years canes and again in September on new canes. Raspberries […]
Farm & Market Garden Tour – The Bullaun Ark
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We made a video tour of the Bullaun Ark in county Galway, a small scale farm and market garden ran by Charles & Shannon. Amazing place and very knowledgeable people putting all sorts of new and old innovations in growing food to the test here in the west of Ireland. Everything is done by hand […]
Mashua Mix
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Mashua (Tropaeolum tuberosum) is a vegetable that has been used by humans for 8000 years and has been in cultivation for about 1400 years in Peru and Bolivia at over 3000 meters above sea level. It’s a tuberous Nasturtium and it has been grown along side of the famous potato, as well as Yacon and […]