My hope of growing a Halloween pumpkin in the same grow bag from which I harvested the early potatoes unfortunately did not work out. Some pumpkins did form but they never swelled to the size required. I now realise the extensive root system really needs the expanse of open soil to develop and support the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘October’
20 Oct
DIGGING OUT THE COMPOST BEGINS THE CLEAR UP OF SPENT VEG GROWTH – THIRD WEEK IN OCTOBER 2010
Last Sunday 17th October was a perfect dry crisp sunny day to work in the garden. Out came the compost and grass got cut and green roof on shed got trimmed back too. This growing pile of cut greenery will in due course become layers in the multi decker ‘sandwich’ along with kitchen organic material [...]
13 Oct
LAST APPLE JUICED AND HONEY POTTED, TIME TO CLEAR GARDEN FOR AUTUMN PLANTING – SECOND WEEK IN OCTOBER 2010.
Made a start on clearing the spent pea and bean stalks and haulms. I did not dig them out, just chopped them at ground level so their roots remained in the soil. These legume roots have nodules of nitrogen fixed from the air during their growing season. I’m told this is valuable for the cabbage [...]
6 Oct
BALBRIGGAN FOOD FESTIVAL STRESSES LOCAL FOOD CULTURE GOOD FOR JOBS AND BIODIVERSITY – FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER 2010
Ar an chéad lá de Dheireadh Fómhair, d’fhreastail a lán daoine ar Fhéile Bia Bhaile Brigín a bhí urraithe as Bridgestone. Deireadh Fómhair or October literally means ‘end of Harvest’ so the first of October was a good day for the first ever Balbriggan Food Festival. The sponsorship of Bridgestone was a big help and linked the Bridgestone Food Guide with the town where Bridgestone in Ireland is based and [...]
3 Nov
SOWING BROAD BEANS – FOURTH WEEK IN OCTOBER 2009
The recently sown Radar onion sets are growing well now in the cleared patch from which beetroot was harvested about a month ago. Nearby, last season’s onion patch has now been cleared, some compost mixed in and the soil levelled. This patch will now become the legume patch between now and next autumn. Broad beans [...]
21 Oct
GOOD WAY TO REMEMBER ROTATION PLAN – THIRD WEEK IN OCTOBER 2009
The growing interest in amenity fruit and vegetable growing has given rise to the mushrooming of initiatives such as www.giyireland.com. In Balbriggan the local Horticultural Society has launched a course of workshops on vegetable growing co-ordinated by committee member, great local gardener [and indeed chef] Judith Chavasse. Her neighbour and veg growing expert Dave gave [...]
21 Oct
SETTING UP GREENHOUSE FOR WINTER – SECOND WEEK IN OCTOBER 2009
Spare time has been in short supply. Any couple of hours free on a Sunday afternoon has been spent in the garden. With the dry mild weather and the wish to be outdoors, the Trevor’s Kitchen Garden.ie site has been neglected. You could say I was saving the blog update work for a rainy day. [...]
1 Oct
DEALING WITH APPLE POWDERY MILDEW – FIRST WEEK IN OCTOBER 2009
After the joy of winning a first prize in the Naul Horticultural Show for parsley which grows well under the apple tree, I was then brought back down to earth to discover a white fungus on a branch of the apple tree above. I read up on the symptoms in ‘Natural Pest and Disease Control’ [...]
