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Rose hip syrup is a wonderful elixir to have in the winter store cupboard as it's full of vit C. Good as a daily tonic to keep off colds and flus but it also tastes quite exotic (as opposed to tasting like medicine like many tonics do!). Rose hips are in season around now (late summer to...
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Sweetcorn must be picked at just the right time, writes Fionnuala Fallon Photo: Richard JohnstonThere can be few vegetables as versatile or as useful as corn, that magical golden grain that can be transformed into a fuel (Ethanol), an animal feed, a sweetener (corn syrup,...
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If you had a variety of tomato that was a particular success this year, why not try saving the seeds from the tomatoes to grow next year's plants? Seed saving is a really important skill for all GIYers to learn, because it (a) saves us money and (b) takes back control of our food from the...
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The sight of a row of scarlet runner beans in full flower is magic, writes Fionnuala Fallon.“So Jack jumped up and dressed himself and went to the window. And what do you think , he saw? Why, the beans his mother had thrown out of the window into the garden, had sprung up into a big beanstalk...
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While discussing her garden with a client lately I got distracted when I spotted a swallows nest immediately outside her patio doors, resting between the house and the down pipe. This nest was the hive of activity with mammy swallow feeding her young and directing traffic as the young birds flew...
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In this week's tip of the week, we discuss what to sow in August. Often when we start GIYing we assume that sowing seeds is something that is only done in the spring - not so! The key to having a good year-round supply of veggies is to sow regularly and often between Feb and...
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By Jane Powers. This article first appeared in The Irish Times.WE’VE BEEN GARDENING our hearts out for the past decade or so. First, because it was fashionable, and then, because in these challenging times, it gives us a way to connect to the Earth, and to provide us with a bit of...
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GARDENS A new book by German-born gardener Klaus Laitenberger is tailored to the Irish vegetable grower, writes Jane Powers.This article first appeared in The Irish Times.GARDENING BOOKS ARE like the proverbial buses. You’re waiting ages for the right one, and then, just like that, two of...
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This article first appeared in The Irish Times - (C) Irish Times 2010IRISH ABROAD: Michelle Obama has taken food out of the lifestyle pages and made it front-page news, with a little help from Irish-born chef Cathal Armstrong. LARA MARLOWE meets him at his four-star restaurant in...
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Caterpillars got your corn? Slugs scoffed your beans? Don’t worry, just shrug and start again writes Fionnuala Fallon.IT WAS recently pointed out to me by a savvy, twentysomething GYO-er that you really don’t get that many chances to get things right when it comes to growing your own....
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