REMEMBER MY ADVICE – IF YOU’RE SHORT OF TIME, JUST GET THOSE URGENT SEEDS SOWN! YOU CAN CATCH UP WITH EVERYTHING ELSE LATER, BUT IF YOU DELAY, THEN IT MAY BE TOO LATE FOR SOME CROPS, OR THEY MAY DISAPPOINT. TIME WAITS FOR NO MAN. (Or woman!) Funny how we spend so much of our… Continue reading What to sow in March – 2025
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FEBRUARY 2025
Growing Aubergines, Peppers and Beefsteak Tomatoes Now is the best time to sow aubergines, sweet peppers and large-fruited beefsteak tomatoes to get the earliest and best crops here in Ireland. In over 40 years of growing these crops, both as a commercial grower and for home use, has taught me that these important summer crops… Continue reading FEBRUARY 2025
What to Sow In February – 2025
Sowing home-saved, or non-F1 hybrid, open-pollinated Heritage seeds and supporting independent, organic seed companies ensures diversity in seed supply, and will provide plenty of food for us, bees and beneficial insects. It will also give us more self-reliance and resilience, help to protect biodiversity and ensure our future food security. Sowing seeds has been mankind’s sign of… Continue reading What to Sow In February – 2025
What to Sow in January 2025
First, I would like to wish you all a Very Happy, Healthy and Productive New Growing Year! Why not make 2025 the year when you discover the joys of saving your own seed? It isn’t complicated to do and can give you some very useful food security. Think about it when you’re doing your seed… Continue reading What to Sow in January 2025
DECEMBER 2024
Contents include – Growing Super-fast Microgreens, Plant Garlic in Tubs for an extra-early, disease-free crop, Sustainable, Planet Friendly Growbag Gardening Diversity is strength – in the Soil and in our Gut I have often said on my radio spot with Gerry Kelly, that whatever is going on in the world – if I can eat a homegrown… Continue reading DECEMBER 2024
What to Sow in November 2024
“Remember – always sow the seeds. You can catch up on everything else – but if you get behind on that, there’s nothing you can do about it.” Do it NOW…. Every day the light is getting shorter, and growth is slowing. In the UK and Ireland, we are once again facing some uncertainty of vegetable supplies due to unpredictable weather… Continue reading What to Sow in November 2024
What to Sow in October 2024
“Remember – always sow the seeds. You can catch up on everything else – but if you get behind on that, there’s nothing you can do about it.” Do it NOW…. Every day the light is getting shorter, and growth is slowing. Outdoors You can still sow these directly into the ground – covering with cloches later in the month in cold gardens.… Continue reading What to Sow in October 2024
‘From Tunnel to Table’ – 20th February – In the kitchen.
Malted Bara Brith (Malted Welsh Brack) – From Tunnel to Table recipe for October – (2).
Unglazed Bara Brith cooling on rack (Based on a traditional Welsh recipe, this is similar to a tea bread and is usually served buttered, but the malt makes it nice and moist so it is very nice without if you don’t want to use it) Ingredients: 2 & 1/4oz / 63g (ish) Barley malt (weight… Continue reading Malted Bara Brith (Malted Welsh Brack) – From Tunnel to Table recipe for October – (2).
Spinach, Tomato, Onion and Mozzarella Gratin – ‘From Tunnel to Table’ recipe for September
The gratin – golden brown, fragrant and sizzling from the oven (using spinach, chard, tomatoes, red onions, garlic and marjoram or oregano – all from the tunnel) This is a really very easy – but oozingly delicious dish using ingredients that most people will still have if they garden at all –… Continue reading Spinach, Tomato, Onion and Mozzarella Gratin – ‘From Tunnel to Table’ recipe for September