Just one great photo of Dunree Fort taken by Adam Porter Date: Saturday, July 17, 2010 Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm Location: The Plaza Main St Buncrana For the duration of The Buncrana Music & Arts Festival a host of local photographers will exhibit there work of picturesque landscape & more from in and around Inishowen. Inishindie

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Aoíbhinn Inis-eoin. Photographic Exhibition

Buffalo, New York. The quintessential snow storm city, forever pictured in the minds of out-of-towners as a place where snow is ever present.  Forget about all of that! Now it’s Buffalo, New York.  The quintessential gardening city, forever pictured in the minds of gardeners and other people as a place where gardens are everywhere. Remember it that way! From exuberant plantings of perennials

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Redefining Quintessential Buffalo

When a gardener flies on an airplance, leaving her garden just as the corn is tasseling, the tomato hornworms are threatening, and it is so hot that by mid-morning every plant wants to be the shade, there must be something very worthwhile to get to. When the gardener sees that the first plane in her journey is a turbo prop jet, she immediately gives herself the job of watching that propeller to

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When A Gardener Flies On An Airplane

I went on a search for all the verses of “The Diehards”, a poem by Ruth Pitter published in 1941 in a book of her poems called “The Rude Potato”. I had read little snippets taken from the poem, which often show up when you search for quotes on gardening, including: “We go, in winter’s biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay

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In Search of "The Diehards"

Greetings to all members of the Society for the Preservation and Propagation of Old-Time Gardening Wisdom, Lore, and Superstition (SPPOTGWLS or “the Society”) I, your self-appointed Society president for life, am hereby calling to order this special meeting to share an important piece of information. It has been some time since we last met. We refer to the previous meeting minutes to determine

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The Society Meets: Anticipating the End Of Spring, Start Of Summer

I love how this video, from the White House Blog, captures the essence of the Chefs Move to Schools initiative: Look! A new post about the initiative from my friend, Lia at the Nourish Network. Since my return from the White House, just over a week ago, I have been invited to help launch salad bars in

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Chefs Move to Schools: Celebs with Kids at the White House

Welcome to Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day for June 2010. It seems like June is a month when gardeners from all hardiness zones begin to have more plants blooming in common, though we sometimes grow those plants differently. Who doesn’t have coneflowers, Echinacea purpurea, pictured above?

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Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – June 2010

Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, Greetings! As I write this letter, I smell the distinctive, strong scent of my night bloomer, Epiphyllum oxypetalum, which bloomed this evening for me. I’ve been so busy outside that I just noticed the flower bud a few days ago, and then this evening I decided to check to see if it was getting close to blooming, and there was the flower.

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Dear Friends and Gardeners: June 14, 2010

INISHOWEN DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP The Inishowen Development Partnership is inviting applications from Inishowen-based groups under its Local Community Development Programme as follows: SMALL GRANTS FOR COMMUNITY GROUPS Applications are welcome from community groups who are engaging in projects to promote social inclusion. Funding may be sought for project work, training and development. INFORMATION EVENINGS Monday, June 21st at IDP Offices, Buncrana 7.30pm Wednesday, June 23rd at IDP Offices, Carndonagh 7.30pm More information will be available at the information evenings.

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Grants

You might be a gardening geek who likes rocks in your garden if… When your shovel hits a big rock in the ground, you immediately get out other tools to gently pry the rock out so you don’t scratch it all up. When you find a rock while digging, you get that same feeling you get when opening an unexpected present as you gently brush the dirt off to see what the rock looks like

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You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Rock Edition

Is it just me, or are others starting to notice how non-gardening related products are starting to market gardening and growing plants, including vegetables? My thoughts always turn to gardening, so maybe I’m the last to catch on that the rest of the world is starting to think about gardening, too.

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Seeds On The Back of The Cracker Box

Copse – a thicket of small trees or shrubs Thicket – a dense growth of shrubs or undergrowth Grove – A small growth of trees without underbrush Forest – A dense growth of trees, plants and underbrush covering a large area Pale – An area enclosed by a fence or boundary. As in… “Within the pale, we began to see the beginnings of a copse, a thicket of plants looking much like a grove

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Garden Design Update: View Through A Copse

By guest blogger Sharon Halkovics It’s just the start of summer, and I admit to not always being motivated to cook meals involving more than two or three steps of preparation – especially on weeknights.  One of the magnificent perks summer brings forth is brilliantly fresh, abundant produce that is showcased most stunningly with little alteration.  I’ve been absolutely thrilled to start regular harvest of items from my garden.  Just this past week, I’ve picked radishes, broccoli rabe, arugula, lettuce, herbs, and green onions. When I arrived home around 7:30 last night to a warm, sleepy, slightly muggy kitchen, I was not very interested in preparing anything that required more then 15 minutes of attention.  Blissfully, I opened windows and doors, headed out to the garden to gather a beautiful bunch of bright green spring onions, and prepared a delicious 15 minute dish using a recipe from the Momofuku cookbook: Ginger Scallion Sauce.  I altered David Chang’s recipe just a bit (cut down on the ginger, added a small amount of seasoned rice vinegar, a tablespoon of sesame oil, and a splash of fish sauce) and served it over cold soba noodles with a few scoops of avocado.  Yet another simple recipe to keep at my finger tips, as it is refreshing and amazingly versatile. I’d honestly LOVE to get comments and conversations rolling with readers, fans and customers about your ‘go-to’ lazy summer day recipes.  Many Boulder County Farmers’ Market shoppers stop by our booth regularly to pick up market recipes and enjoy their simplicity.  I encourage you to let us know your favorites so we can offer more recipes that you’ll want to keep in your ‘back pocket’ and use over and over again.

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Lazy Summer Day Recipe

Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, Do you know how long it takes to shell eight cups of peas? I do! I can tell you from my own experience that it takes about an hour, and that’s an hour working steadily at it with no breaks. That’s a lot of peas and my fingers were sore afterward.

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Dear Friends and Gardeners: June 7, 2010

Knowth The 5000 year old main mound at Knowth, known as Knowth Site 1 is contemporary with the mounds at Newgrange and Dowth. The mounds are classified as Passage Tombs by archaeologists and are collectively are known as of Brú na Bóinne, they are situated in the valley of the River Boyne in Ireland.

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Newgrange and Knowth Heritage Sites

I originally posted about the backyard garden beds right after they were first outlined by the garden designer. Those beds have been mulched now and the garden seems much different, even without adding any new trees or shrubs. Without getting on the roof of the house, it is hard to capture the overall view of the garden beds and how they relate, so let me attempt to describe it all.

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Garden Design Update: The Back Yard Beds

What happens to those gloves, pruners, trowels, loppers, dandelion diggers and other assorted gardening tools that disappear in the garden? One minute you are using a tool and then you set it down, perhaps to pick up another garden tool and then when you reach to grab it again, and it’s gone

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What Happens To Our Missing Gardening Tools?

Known by friends as “The Slug Man,” Callum Davis is on a quest to help you in the garden according to Guardian.co.uk . Davis is still a month shy of his 20th birthday but his company, EcoCharlie, employs five full-time staff and is set to turn over £150,000 this year in sales of a fast-expanding range of “natural” garden products, including a garden watering system – which can be used with most mineral water bottles – sold through Oxfam. The aim is simple, he says: “To manufacture products which are natural, ethical, recycled, eco-friendly, sustainable or support a good cause.” As gardening enthusiasts turn their attention to the Chelsea Flower Show next week, many will doubtless do so dreaming of new, green-fingered careers.

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Business Is Blooming For Green Entrepreneur

(This is a continuing series of weekly letters exchanged between Dee, who gardens in Oklahoma, and Mary Ann, who gardens in Idaho, comparing how similar and different our gardens are, especially the vegetable gardens.) Dear Dee and Mary Ann and Gardening Friends Everywhere, Greetings from the garden on this last day of May, Memorial Day 2010! I’ve attached a picture so you can see what I

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Dear Friends and Gardeners: May 31, 2010

You might be a gardening geek when it comes to photography if… You welcome an occasional cloudy day because it gives you a good WOO to take pictures in your garden. Bonus points if you’ve stood over a plant to cast a shadow on it because that provided better lighting than the direct sun that was shining on it

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You Might Be A Gardening Geek: Photography Edition