Back in the spring of 2009 the gardeners at Capparoe planted around 300 Bedford monarch parsnips and wanted to save the plants for seed production.
So the gardeners took away all those which didn’t look too great.
They took away [...]
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Bedford Monarch Parsnips- Selecting for seed production
Date:3 March 2010
Save your old trees- Our grafting service.
Date:11 February 2010
If you have an old apple tree you would like to save or propagate, we can graft it for you. You can send us the scion wood ( 1 year old straight grown branches) and we send you [...]
Larry Leptin – Invasion of the GMO Frankenfood
Date:8 February 2010
Please watch and learn from this video, maybe GM isn’t all it’s cracked up to be? There’s no way we should have it rammed down our throats, and perhaps this island of Ireland would be the ideal place [...]
Biodynamic Tree paste
Date:28 January 2010
We are no longer offering the biodynamic tree paste for sale, mainly as it is a cheap and easy preparation to make, but costs a fortune to send through the post, so for those who want to have [...]
Planting an Orchard-REPS 4 Supplementary Measure Traditional Irish Orchards
Date:28 January 2010
The Irish Seed Savers Association (ISSA) is at the moment, the only outlet for the purchasing of Native Irish Apple trees. The main objective of ISSA is to halt the depletion of our native agricultural biodiversity, and to [...]
Summer Apples by Kevin Dudley
Date:28 January 2010
You don’t have to go back that far in time to find that the apple was a seasonal fruit. When the last of the apples that stored well had been eaten and the preserves of bottled fruit and [...]
Apple Folk Customs
Date:28 January 2010
There are many myths, legends and folk customs associated with apples. Here is a small selection extracted from The Irish Apple: History and Myth…
Apples were saved for the last night in January, St Brigid’s Eve, and a griddle [...]
Antique Apple Names by Max Robinson
Date:28 January 2010
The following definitions of some old pomological terms come from the Oxford English Dictionary, but I have put them in my own words. The dates are the first use of that word for which the dictionary has a [...]
Organic fertilisers
Date:24 November 2009
Taken from:A basic book of self reliance-The concise book of organic growing and small livestock- Meikd & David Watkins.
These materials may be purchased. They are natural products and therefore readily assimiable by the plants.
N%
P%
K%
Hoof & horn
13
2
Slow [...]
Wireworm
Date:24 November 2009
I was asked for information on getting rid of an awful attack of Wireworm in a garden. I spoke with Steven Marsh (a potato grower) and he relayed this information.
Get hold of some poor tubers, either those which have [...]