Organic College Garden Diary

See what our students have been up to in their gardens and read about local food in Ireland
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We are a small college in Dromcollogher, County Limerick, Ireland.

You'll find courses in organic horticulture - growing fruit, veg and herbs - on our website: organiccollege.com

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DL towna garden rainwater harvesting

Margaret,   I'll upload the pics here, so others can acess them too. Just 3 pics of the guttering and collection tank.......          

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Posted 1 minute ago by John Flynn 

Chitting early potatoes - photo

  This time with photo.... ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: John Flynn Date: 8 March 2010 10:39Subject: Chitting early potatoesTo: Dromcollogher Organic College The first little...

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Posted 1 day ago by John Flynn 

lambs ...

This morning the first two lambs have been born - nearly all the sheep are pregnant, so I am expecting many more :)

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Posted 4 days ago by Felix Meissner 

Test Imelda Mullen

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Posted 4 days ago by email 

cultivating mushrooms

I found in the organic gardening catalogue a mushroom growing kit - and got really interested in the idea to grow mushrooms in the garden.I ordered the kit which contains dowel spawn of oyster, shiitake...

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Posted 5 days ago by Felix Meissner 

  We had another beautiful day here today, busy mucking out stables I have decided to stop seeing it as mucking out stables and call it composting in future, this way i will think i am working on the...

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Posted 5 days ago by rosiesgarden 

Summary of February Tasks

1-3rd: Germinating radish & carrot seeds (x50each) in hotpress/ Seaweed. Joined the BLOG. Tested ph of new soil =7 7th Ordered all seeds & sprouting kit from Tamar & Chase with Mgt. total: £56.60...

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Posted 5 days ago by Annette O'Shea 

Making marmalade, planting asparagus and gooseberries

Last week I enjoyed some winter kitchen and garden activities. Making marmalade is an annual winter ritual in our house - the time to do it is when the delicious bitter Seville oranges are in the shops...

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Posted 6 days ago by Tom Atkins 

Beautiful Day in South Tipp

    Today was a beautiful day and i got to spend most of it out in the garden as the kids love it outside and also now that i have a play pen set up for the baby inside the tunnel. I transferrred my...

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Posted 6 days ago by rosiesgarden 

farm yard manure

We had a few dry days and I am able again to drive onto the fields with heavy machinery.I used the good weather to spray our compost onto the fields.All farm yard manure is 100% organic (from own production...

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Posted 7 days ago by Felix Meissner