Comments on: Welcome http://trevorskitchengarden.ie/2009/02/01/welcome/ How I grow my own food and how you can too. Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Trevor Sargent http://trevorskitchengarden.ie/2009/02/01/welcome/#comment-790 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:12:03 +0000 http://trevorskitchengarden.wordpress.com/?p=117#comment-790 Hi Sue,

No arid land in Ireland, but sandy areas in parts of east coast can be dry during a rain free spell especially during the Summer. Generally gropwing conditions good especially if a polytunnel or greenhouse is used to extend the growing season and protect against a wet period.

Regards,

Trevor

]]> By: Sue http://trevorskitchengarden.ie/2009/02/01/welcome/#comment-775 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:24:17 +0000 http://trevorskitchengarden.wordpress.com/?p=117#comment-775 Hi there. I’d like to know where in Ireland are the most fertile growing conditions to produce the widest range of fruit and vegetable crops (small hobby farm or family garden). I need to know about soil content and chemistry, temperature and growing season, rainfall. I assume there is no arid land in Ireland. Can anyone help me?

]]> By: Trevor Sargent http://trevorskitchengarden.ie/2009/02/01/welcome/#comment-424 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:17:29 +0000 http://trevorskitchengarden.wordpress.com/?p=117#comment-424 Kevin, a chara,

Best wishes with your watering system business. Any devices or ideas which help us conserve and use water more carefully are good news for everyone. I’d be interested in a brochure if you can send it to me at 37 Tara Cove, Balbriggan, Co. Dublin.

Le meas glas,
Trevor Sargent

]]> By: Trevor Sargent http://trevorskitchengarden.ie/2009/02/01/welcome/#comment-276 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:45:46 +0000 http://trevorskitchengarden.wordpress.com/?p=117#comment-276 Roy, a Chara,
Glad to hear you saw the TV3 interview which I thoroughly enjoyed doing. Good luck with the new garden and the move. Blackcurrants give great return and the currants freeze very easily. I put some straight from the freezer in top of hot porridge every morning right through the year. They thaw to ‘fresh’ within seconds.
Forest floor ancestors are probably OK on north facing site. Lettuce or parsley for example. I’m trying rhubarb in north side of house under trees. It tolerates and performs OK but does not thrive. Better than nothing however.

I had a single plum tree and it fruited fine. Victoria was the variety. Plums do not like to be pruned but only prune in summer if necessary. I’d check the GIYIRELAND website to see the nearest group to where you live. These guys are learning by trial and error in soil conditions probably similar to your own.

Le meas glas.
Trevor

]]> By: Roy H W Johnston http://trevorskitchengarden.ie/2009/02/01/welcome/#comment-265 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:30:06 +0000 http://trevorskitchengarden.wordpress.com/?p=117#comment-265 Trevor I have discovered this site thanks to the recent TV3 interview. I will be reading it regularly in the coming months. We have bought a house in Rathmines, in the context of the downsizing programme, and I have begun to prepare the garden, saving some topsoil from where an extension out back is on the agenda. We will not move in until the work is done, but I am hoping to get the garden ready for an autumn planting of fruit bushes and trees etc.

We will be spacing the blackcurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries etc in the lawn, in Myrtle Allen mode.

Any suggestions for what will do against a north-facing wall? Loganberries perhaps?

Am I right in thinking that plums need to be in pairs, for pollen etc?

Can you suggest a source of good garden lore and perhaps supplies in easy reach of Rathmines?

RoyJ

]]> By: Trevor Sargent http://trevorskitchengarden.ie/2009/02/01/welcome/#comment-237 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:31:16 +0000 http://trevorskitchengarden.wordpress.com/?p=117#comment-237 Hi Eileen,
I notice the Irish Seed Savers website has a ‘starter pack for polytunnels’ in the seed catalogue section which costs from €10 and lists toamatoes, pepers, salad greens and cucumbers along with instructions. Apart from that I see goods books now available in shops as polytunnel growing has increased in popularity over recent years.
Le meas glas,
Trevor

]]> By: EILEEN http://trevorskitchengarden.ie/2009/02/01/welcome/#comment-223 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:42:17 +0000 http://trevorskitchengarden.wordpress.com/?p=117#comment-223 HALLO TREVOR I WOULD GREATFUL FOR ANY INFORMATION YOU CAN GIVE ME ON WHAT I CAN GROW IN POLLYTUNNELL I AM A BEGINNER

]]> By: gardener http://trevorskitchengarden.ie/2009/02/01/welcome/#comment-182 Sat, 08 May 2010 08:45:20 +0000 http://trevorskitchengarden.wordpress.com/?p=117#comment-182 Hi Trevor, I learn from your weblog since view month ago , I really enjoy it, now can I link exchange with you? thank’s before. cheers from me :)

]]> By: Trevor Sargent http://trevorskitchengarden.ie/2009/02/01/welcome/#comment-171 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:27:13 +0000 http://trevorskitchengarden.wordpress.com/?p=117#comment-171 Hi Valerie,
Thanks for the video link and the thoughts. I’ll not be distracted from pursuing the interests we discussed in Drumcollogher regardless of Government involvement.
Le meas glas.
Trevor

]]> By: Trevor Sargent http://trevorskitchengarden.ie/2009/02/01/welcome/#comment-170 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:24:21 +0000 http://trevorskitchengarden.wordpress.com/?p=117#comment-170 Hi William.
Thanks for the feedback. I hope things are well where you are allotmenteering.
Le meas.
Trevor

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