Tag: Crops
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Sowing Early Crop Spuds
The first proper bit of outdoor work of 2022, two lots of early crop spuds gone in this week so far. Hopefully the first of a bagful of hands-on projects to come to fruition. Will they all happen? Who knows, but the day I can’t dream close the door and knock off the light on…
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Chip in for a great local day out
What was the first price you can remember for a packet of Tayto Cheese And Onion? For me, it was an old 10p. Back then, they were considered a major treat – usually during or after a Meath match or if some of the clan happened to be in the local watering hole it was…
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We Are Sowing
A day I have longed for, honestly since we closed up the shed last winter, crop sowing for 2021 has begun. While I was in Rehab yesterday, Susie was busily getting my escape hatch ready for me to get stuck straight into bagging, sowing and fertilising our first crop of Kerr Pinks. It’s not the…
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Valentine’s Day Lunch
Do not adjust your sets. What you see before you is real. For the day that was in it yesterday I had a go at making lunch for my lovely lady. The least I could do to repay just a fraction of the way in which she has turned my life upside down for the…
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Watch “Every Journey Has To Start Somewhere” on YouTube
Into the shed for the first time in earnest this year. Starting to give it a good clean up as preparations begin for this year’s farming journey. Wherever it may lead…
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Two pillars of the Irish staple diet
So much of life is based around routine. It’s made easier by it. Conversely, when one’s expected incarnation of ‘normal’ is knocked out of kilter it can have a wholly debilitating effect on the person involved. Change doesn’t have to be a bad thing but it can take a serious amount of adjusting to. Believe…
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All cards on the table
In today’s video, we have a mixture of what has got me through this strangest of winters and a glimpse of what lies ahead going forward. We have our first unboxing of the new year as preparations for Spring sowing begin in earnest. And there’s also a look at a new pass time, which has…
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Cabbage Packed And Crops Wrapped Up
And so we arrive at the end of the first season working with vegetable crops. I say season rather than year as it was, after all, midsummer before we got going. From then, there’s been ups, downs, a lot of learning and an even greater amount of therapy.
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Indoor Vegetable Harvest
Unfortunately, I have to admit to being a little bit under the black cloud again over the last while, but my beautiful lady is not only guiding me back to a more peaceful place in mind but gently coaxed and persuaded me back out to the vegetable crops again. Now, naturally, as has always been…