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I'm glad I caught the weather forecast yesterday - there was a heavy frost last night. I brought in the newest plants and made sure the ones I could move were against the walls of the house. The rest will have to shift for themselves ( ... )Leave a comment ( 22 )
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Gardening update from Co. Kildare
Here's a few pictures of what's going on in our neck of the woods, right now it's all daffodils all the time.
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Lilly of the Valley Post
Thanks to everyone for their wonderful suggestions to my Lilly of the Valley post, I have ended up planting a couple of white Dicentra and 4 or 5 Digitalis plants around the area where we planted the Lilly of the Valley. The Digitalis should give beautiful late summer colour and height to that area once the Lilly of the Valley and the Dicentra are ( ... ) -
Companion for Lilly of the Valley
Does anyone have any suggestions as to a perennial that I can plant amongst a patch of Lilly of the Valley that will take over when the Lilly of the Valley is done blooming? This patch is in pretty deep shade amongst tall trees so also fairly dry. USDA 8ish, I live in Co. Kildare in Ireland.Leave a comment ( 6 )
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Sigh
My husband left the poly tunnel door open for a couple of nights when it froze, killed all our early cauliflower and leek seedlings. I can't get it through his head that he needs to close that door even if he's working in there, it's too cold right now. *Bangs Head on Desk*Leave a comment ( 21 )
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Pictures as requested
I posted an update on my garden last week it's not currently very exciting but I took some pictures. Here's an overview of the veggie beds:
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Recap of 2011 in Ireland
We had a weird year weather wise. We had a very dry couple of months in spring and then a very mediocre growing season. It caused a few of our crops to bolt and a few to not do very well. Our peas and french beans did pretty poorly although the peas might have been because we didn't put pea sticks in until way too late. Our onions (Ailsa Craig ( ... )Leave a comment ( 6 )
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Companion/Cooperative Plant Growing & Overwinter Crops
My garden's slowly coming along, and the vegetable patch has been bordered out into a raised bed with some soil in it (the gardeners are using the soil from the garden as they've said it's very fertile, so I suspect our only issue with it was the stones. This does mean there's a load of grass in it, but also the possibility of weeds; I'm going to ( ... )Leave a comment ( 11 )
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