This is Winter Roscoff cauliflower which produces curds at this time of year. Madeline McKeever has the details: read more at: Brown Envelope Seeds: Cauliflower cheese season.
Weekend Course: Starting the Kitchen Garden
It’s on Sat 28th March 2009 and will cover a variety of activities from planning to sourcing information, seeds, compost and fertility to follow on care needed to make the home garden work and still be enjoyable. The course starts
'Stir Fry Greens' – Madeline's Cut and come again peas
Madeline at Brown Envelope Seeds has been trialling peas for ‘cut and come again’: read more on the Brown Envelope Seeds Blog.
Classic Book Review: How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible
Rob Hopkins has a nice review of this book… via Classic Book Review: How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible (etc. etc.) » Transition Culture.
RTE Nationwide – Wednesday 18th
The college will be featured on RTE Nationwide next week on Wednesday 18th March.
Vegetable Seeds – Roguelands Seed Company
Thanks for Alison for the link to this heirloom seed supplier based in Oregon US but with UK website priced in sterling…. Vegetable Seeds – Roguelands Seed Company.
Heavy gardening counts as good exercise!
We knew this anyway… but you can cancel that gym membership and get digging… read the full article at: Middle age ‘key for exercising’.
Seed capital – The Irish Times – Sat, Jan 31, 2009
This year’s catalogues, with their shiny images of flawless plants, will keep you sowing and growing for another season WITH TWO CONSECUTIVE non-summers piled up in a sodden mess behind us, part of me feels like giving up gardening. But
Imbolc – beeswax candle
A beeswax candle we lit at Imbolc:
How an accident of geography could power wind project
In Ireland the wind blows stronger at night thanks to the weather systems blowing off the Atlantic ocean from the Gulf stream — just when demand for wind power is lowest. It means much of this potentially cheap and abundant