How to Garden - Gardening Tips & Advice for the Irish Garden

Wheelbarrow Care

Oct

3

2013

Life for the garden wheelbarrow and be a rough ride and is all too often, cut short. Being constantly exposed to the tough external conditions of wind snow and rain the barrow must put up with a lot of hardship in it’s time. But today we want you to take the time and give your ...

Useless Pallets & Garden Planters

Sep

25

2013

Timber pallet mountains are a thing of the past as we can now find so many uses to put our old pallets to. The question you ask is; what pallets am i talking about? Well most shops and businesses often find themselves with a pile of pallets amounting in their store yard and are often ...

Storing Your Potatoes With The Potato Clamp

Sep

25

2013

With the harvest very much in full swing we turn of attention on how to store and keep our crops in a suitable order over the winter months. There is a clear understanding that we must maintain a cool and dry environment with good airflow to keep vegetables as these are the conditions which allow ...

Going Wild With Wild Bird Care Products

Sep

17

2013

What really makes the garden stand out from the home is that a garden is teaming with life. Each individual garden is an ecosystem of its own and has an array of plant and animal species all co existing. This delicate relationship is heavily influenced by our own actions and making some small changes to ...

The Garden Planter & Container Gardening

Sep

17

2013

Low maintenance gardens should be filled with flower pots, planters and plant pots as these can offer an abundance of colour and interest all year round with the smallest amount of maintenance. The one word that you may be screaming at your computer right now is ‘Watering’!! yes, watering is essential and must be done ...

Storing Seeds at the End of the Season

Sep

11

2013

Frugal is the way forward and us gardeners always love a bargain and getting something for nothing. Whether you are grow vegetables to swap with your neighbour our barter with friends and family, there is always a way to get rid of some unwanted and excess garden plants, vegetables and seeds in return for something. ...

What to Grow in Your Cold Frame

Aug

31

2013

As summer draws to a close we turn our attention to the onset of chillier weather and what that means for our vegetable garden. Luckily though this does not mean the end of production as garden cloches, greenhouses, polytunnels and cold frames can all be used to extend our growing season and provide some much ...

Extra Privacy With Garden Timber Trellis

Aug

31

2013

Many city and town gardens are faced with the problem of lack of privacy and noisy neighbours. With so many new houses being built and the high damage to live in such confined spaces, we have found ourselves to be living on top of each other more and more and this means smaller gardens and ...

Get Your Garden Furniture Covers

Aug

18

2013

There is nothing worse then the slow and steady decline of your favourite garden furniture. With the majority of garden furniture being made from timber such as ash, pine or oak – rotting can quickly set in with damp weather conditions. There are a number of ways to protect your garden furniture from the harsh ...

Spring Flowering Daffodil Bulbs Planting Companions

Aug

17

2013

When it comes to planting your spring bulbs one of the first questions is ‘what bulbs and other plants should and can we plant together’? Below is a list of the most common spring bulbs and what plants look great next to them Narcissus ‘Tete a Tete’: these dwarf daffodil bulbs have miniature yellow trumpets ...