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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 Bocking 14 & White (Pre-Sale)
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Comfrey is traditionally known as knitbone with many uses both in the garden and in the kitchen. The leaves make for great compost tea and mulching material as they are high in minerals and nitrogen. Please note this is a PRE-Sale. This item is part of the Winter Selection and will be posted when plants […]
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 (Pre-Sale)
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These are best planted in full sun and trellised for best results and easy harvesting keeping the fruit well off the ground. Upright branches fruit and branches hanging down tend to root when touching the ground, this is called tip layering. Please note this is a PRE-Sale. This item is part of the Winter Selection […]
Birdland Raspberry Plants Bare Root (Pre-Sale)
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Produces abundant raspberries twice a year with almost zero maintenance. We’ve been growing this variety of raspberries for 12 years now. It’s a ‘Primocane’ variety. This means they fruit in early summer off last years canes and again in September on new canes. Please note this is a PRE-Sale. This item is part of the […]
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 Mega Mix (Pre-Sale)
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Mashua is a tuberous Nasturtium, extremely hardy and well suited to our cold temperate maritime climate in Ireland. It provides an abundant of leaves throughout the growing season and flowers late in the season. These are both mild and are very tasty addition to any salad. The tubers are spicy and best grated into a […]