Gardens for Life

Autumn is a great time of the year to save seeds. Whether annual or hardy perennial, most flowers and vegetables will have gone to seed by now and are ready for collecting in the garden. Seed saving has many advantages apart from saving money and having plenty to share. You will also find that your […]

One of the easiest and most rewarding vegetables we’ve ever grown is the pumpkin. We planted 7 different varieties into our No Dig mulched garden earlier this year as little seedlings that had been grown from seed in our greenhouse. At the time it was hard to imagine them turning into monster pumpkins 5 months […]

With winter slowly but surely approaching at the of October here in Ireland, our plant nursery and greenhouse are finishing up for the year until the beginning of March. Even now there are still lots of interesting plants to see, such as Cinnamon vine, Apios, Goji’s, grapes, figs and thornless blackberries. This years plants and […]

We made a video harvesting and planting of our No Dig sweet corn. It was planted into our woodchip mulched vegetable garden for zero maintenance. This year it was a bit of an experiment and we’re very happy with the results for our cold temperate climate here in Ireland. We used a variety from Scotland […]

Weeds, or as we like to call them undesirable plants normally don’t grow in our gardens because we don’t dig the soil and we always cover the ground with a thick layer of woodchip mulch. Well.. almost always. We left a small patch of ground uncovered and airborne thistle and grass seeds have established here. […]

We made a new No Dig potato harvest video and we are delighted with the results of our little experiment. It’s so simple anyone can grow their own with very little effort and no maintenance. We simply planted 40 chitted potatoes in 2 small patches at the beginning of June. 3 months later, we harvested […]