Put down the onion sets there and pruned back half the fruit bushes.
I gathered up an absolute hape of wild flower seeds. Is it too late in the autumn to sow them or should I wait for the spring…knapweed, cornflower, fireweed and Himalayan balsam
That Himalayan balsam is listed as an invasive species in Ireland, so whatever you say, say nothing.
Anyway, I’d wait for well prepared ground in Spring at this stage myself.
A bit late but, this is going to be a fermented hot sauce from the chillies I grew. It’s still coming along.
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Lovely
When we built our deck a couple of years ago, we had to take out an old, very straggly lemon scented gum. I held onto the trunk, took off the bark and was thinking what I’d do with it. I came up with this, a piece of no cost garden art. I’m very pleased with myself.
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A fence post I put in the vegetable garden and drilled a load of holes in it. The native bees and assorted insects make their home in it. It’s fascinating to watch them build their nests. Anything to attract pollinators is good.
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@Fagan_ODowd re your issue with growing onions from seed above. I grow red onions every year from seed sown in punnets. When they’re a fee inches I transplnt them into the vegetable bed, I’ve had great success with this.
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He’d want to give me a very good fucking price for it. I’ve had offers to do something similar.
A friend of mine dropped about 3k for a garden sculpture recently. He was well fucked off when he saw mine, which cost 2 fifths of fuck all.
Cheers chief, it was a good year I have to say and the most I’ve taken in from the auld buck who’s a genius at this kinda stuff… He’s 83…wount be around for ever but the knowledge is something else
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Is that what you’ve been doing for the last 6-9 months?
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Calling the advanced gardeners.
I picked up an oregano plant in Aldi today. Good value as it was in a very nice clay pot.
How do I mind it? I’ve no greenhouse. Kitchen window? Water intermittently?
Kitchen window and water sparingly, should be fine. Fine pot with it too.
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There is nothing like growing your own tomatoes. I’ve been harvesting loads of Roma tomatoes over the last week. A gorgeous type, absolutely no bother, no problems with bugs or disease.
But every year I try a new tomato as a companion to the Romas. This year it was Money Maker, a small tomato. Hasn’t been great, probably the worst tasting tomato I’ve ever grown and very disease and bug susceptible.
The tiny tommy bush tomatoes have been a great success for the 4th year in a row, but the quest for the right tomato to accompany the Romas continues.
I’ve tried some big beefeater and Mortgage Lifter tomatoes and all were a disaster. The humidity here means they grow like fuck, but rapidly develop problems.
Had the first of the sweetcorn tonight for dinner with some lovely rainbow trout. Absolutely delicious. Sweetcorn you pick and put in the pot or on the barbecue straight away is phenomenal.
I was thinking tonight though how much I miss fishing for trout and bringing home a decent brown for my oul lad very early on a summer morning.
Not to.mention how beautiful a goid white trout is.
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Sea(white) trout is the nicest game fish of all, but you couldn’t really be not releasing them these days.
I only ever caught the one. It had come up the Nore all the way to Brownsbarn, just past Inistioge.
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They are without doubt the most beautiful fish to eat.
They’re also the best to fish for, they’re like a freight train when they take the fly and they fight like fuck. There’s an enormous sense of achievement when you land one.
I remember my oul fellas reaction of joy when homself and mam came home from Redmonds one Friday night to three white trout gutted on a plate in the fridge.
I’d start fishing white trout in May and I wouldn’t taste one until August as I had a long line of relatives I had to give them to. I didn’t mind when it was my great auntie Eve who lived next door to us. She had great joy in getting a fresh trout and I always loved dropping them into her.
But yes, it’s very sad what has happened to white trout and really it’s a national scandal. Not just in Ireland, it’s been devastating whats happened to them on the UK as well.
I used to read Trout and Salmon magazine growing up and the reverence paid to the sea trout. And then we fucked it all up.
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