A garden can provide you with harvests throughout the year, even after the abundance of the Summer months and later crops such as apples and pumpkins in the Autumn. There are plenty of vegetables available to harvest during the cold Winter months, some of which can still be sown now in September. Our favourite Winter […]
This week we took a more laid back approach to gardening and we left mother nature in charge while we took some days off to save seeds and start more berry bushes. It’s always amazing to see the flush of growth when coming back to the garden. In this weeks vlog we’ll be giving you […]
Join us for our first weekly No Dig Gardening Vlog. I’ll be walking around our gardens discussing our philosophies based on our years of experience with all it’s up and down, failed experiments and successes. Our conclusion is to simply let go of the perfect image of the garden and in the name of productivity […]
We just finished our latest garden expansion. It took a few months of preparation and gathering materials, but once all the pieces were in place the new garden came together quickly with the help of a digger to spread the compost piles. We planted about 2000 plants we grew from seed, bulbs, tubers from cuttings. […]
A few weeks ago we did a bit of mid summer maintenance in our no dig gardens. It takes much less effort to keep on top of a no dig garden, but you must not let weeds, or unwanted plants get away with growing for too long as they will eventually go to seed and […]
Here’s a quick Spring garden tour and an update on the upcoming Seed & Plant Swap this Sunday. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS ON THE SEED & PLANT SWAP Subscribe to our email list for occasional updates and raffles.
2021 is now another year gone by, a productive year with lots of fruitful gardening and homesteading projects. Thanks to all of those that have helped, volunteers, neighbors, our customers, our audience and last but not least nature itself. The wheel of life is ticking over even now in mid winter, spring is fast approaching. […]
In this Farm & Market Garden Tour we are revisiting the Bullaun Ark in Loughrea Co. Galway (Ireland). Charles and Shannon have made amazing progress in establishing a sustainable food production system with many rare exotic vegetables, herbs and fruits. The No Dig method is really helping to develop a soil structure promoting healthy soil […]
Here is the new No Dig Pumpkin Patch Video! 2 hours of planting & 5 hours of harvesting and literally no maintenance. For most of the northern hemisphere Halloween marks the end of the growing season and the beginning of Winter. Pumpkins are an absolute delight to have to celebrate your gardens harvest for a […]
In our maritime climate here in Ireland we welcome the occasional drought and in recent years we’ve been looking forward to a break after a relentlessly wet Winter. This year we had a second drought combined with a heat wave followed by.. you’ve guess it – a third drought lasting another 2 weeks. Our gardens […]