Composting
Garden gadgets: hotbin composter
Composting has been one of the long games for the garden here at Ar Bruadair, and I mean LONG game. As you can imagine, at
Eli 6th November 2016
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Gardening
2016 review: Quadgrow, would I recommend it?
That’s the tomato growing season come to an end here at At Bruidair and so the green house has been cleaned up for winter. Those who
Eli 30th October 2016
Gardening
Can you go on holiday and not come home to a dead greenhouse? With quadgrow you can.
When I installed my new quadgrow watering system in the greenhouse, one of my questions was, “will I be able to go off on holiday
Eli 2nd August 2016
Fruit
Did the copper tape defeat the slugs and save my strawberries?
You betcha! So… strawberries, slugs, copper tape. I promised you an update after I put copper tape around the raised bed with the strawberries growing
Eli 14th July 2016
Gardening
More greenhouse gadgets – the quadgrow system
Today was quite a productive day in the garden, despite some heavy showers (really heavy – heavy enough that they drowned me out while I
Eli 21st May 2016
Gardening
Laying a lawn – turf
I had a query recently from a work colleague about lawns, whether to grow it from seed or to lay turf. This got me thinking
Eli 28th April 2016
Gardening
Grass, the hardest plant to grow. Honest!
One of the hardest plants to grow and maintain in our garden, believe it or not is grass. Although I should clarify, it grows brilliantly
Eli 14th March 2016
Flowers
Petunias – the growing from seed adventure
This year’s experiment was to grow the flowers for our hanging baskets ourselves rather than buy plants from our local garden centre. This would be
Eli 10th May 2015
Gardening
Unheated greenhouse – does it really make a difference?
I was going to give you a very quick update on the garden today as things do seem to be coming along nicely but in
Eli 1st May 2015
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