This evening we picked the first of the strawberries. Summer has come early! Strawberry plants were some of the first plants planted in...

This year we decided to do some work on our garden. As usual something small (well maybe not so small) turned into something bigger. ...

In the past couple of days, we have begun planting the tomatoes in the tunnel. These are probably the plants that receive the most...

We have so many things to update you about. We have been so busy in the garden. Planting and transplanting (moving seedlings into bigger...

On St. Patricks Day, sure what else would Irish people be doin? bejaysus plantin the spuds... all going well we will have potatoes in...

We have been busy outside each weekend since our tunnel arrived. We are doing a lot of work to tidy and put some order on our garden...

It is February it is that time of year again when my wife is like a busy little bee. The house is full of little plastic pots and all...

We purchased our polytunnel without furniture, beds to contain the soil and compost for plants within we had decided to construct them...

Hi again. Apologies for not had a post on this for a long while. The Winter set in and most gardening activities ceased. We are back, and...

Quick Update 25 July It is a damp Saturday morning, humid and the thermometer in the tomato greenhouse is reading 21 degrees. Outside it...

Today we harvested a good bunch of produce, some broccoli, a couple of gherkins, a cucumber, a lot of onions and ¾ Kg podded fresh peas....

This evening we had our first what I term ‘free’ dinner of 2020. We had our own potatoes, peas, broccoli, and carrots fresh from our...

It has rained consistently here for the last couple of days. It is July! its terrible, everything is thoroughly soaked. But thankfully...

I should really rename this site to the ‘strawberry site’, as I seem to devote a lot of column inches to this fruit. A strawberry plant...

The weather forecast has been terrible over the weekend. We have been battered by high wind and heavy rain which began yesterday evening,...

The strawberry harvest has begun. Over the past week or so we have begun strawberry picking. Slowly since the warm Bank Holiday the...

The evenings are good and long at the moment, add to this, we are both working from home, and the weather is mainly dry these factors...

We had a Bank Holiday Weekend last week. The Sun God decided to shine on us, a whole weekend of fabulous sunshine from Friday through...

Though we have been harvesting lettuce, radishes and spring onions for some time now, today marks the beginning of the Summer. We picked...

Those of us who took history in secondary school remember Potato Blight as being one of the causes of the famine in Ireland back in the...