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Try your local chip shop, they usually get their tatties delivered in paper bags,and are usually glad to give them to local gardeners gratis. They keep the tatties dry and keep out the light

Hi Yorky
Blood Fish and Bone Meal.
Any Garden Centre or DIY store,not sure of the price in Euro's but around £8 in UK, comes in 7 kilo tubs.
Jock

Paddy
I think the stuff you are looking for is debris netting, it is used to cover scaffolding to stop things falling off. The best places to try would be builders merchants, or scaffolding firms who ...

Plenty of books out there Sean,. try Ebay or a book site called Greenmetropolis.

http://www.greenmetropolis.com

Jock

Saw this post and followed the link to RTE iPlayer, I watched the 19 may programe, it was exellent !!.Michael Corrigan bursts with enthusism for growing and rearing your own food. I have bookmarked th ...

I agree with Liparis ,its sun scorch. Don't water over the leaves as water on the leaves magnifies the suns strength and causes the scorching. Follow Liparis good advice and also only water into the p ...

Thanks boys ,thought you would be interested.
Had a wee check and it is not being shown on BBC2 NI at the same time ,but it is
bound to be in the schedule at some time.
It will almost certainly be ...

This is not strictly garden related, but as a piece of Scots /Irish social history I think will be of interest to those Irish gardeners who have Sky TV or live close enough to the north to receive BBC ...

Here in Scotland as in the rest of the UK garden waste is uplifted free from April till November , We have a wheelie bin with a green lid which takes only garden waste. Most councils in UK now have co ...

Hi Michelle
I would get both gooseberry and strawberrys planted to their final positions now.
Both fruits are quite hardy and will stand a little frost, I renewed my strawberry bed last Sept/Oct by ...

Sand on your carrot bed is a good idea, carrots do best in a sandy loam and need good drainage. but use builders sand not from the shore for the reasons mentioned in the previous posts. My biggest pro ...

Found this in the Grow Your Own website,
starts 2nd march in UK, and I think a week later in Ireland.
The prices shown will be in pounds not Euro's.
Jock

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grape ...

Thanks for the welcome Everybody,
walltoall aye reekin lums are no sae common noo'adays, and we followed Ireland's good example by banning smoking in public a couple of years ago.
you are right abou ...

Hi Verge
Weather is still too cold and wet to get anything done outside, winter cabbage and garlic are doing fine they came through the cold snap fine. Got some thigs started in the greenhouse in hop ...

Thanks Bill
I'm pretty sure I will, my allotment is behind the mill on Rosetta Rd,
champin' at the bit to get on with things, but the weather is still too cold and wet.
Regards Jock