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Our Harvest in Charts: Potatoes a Big Winner

October 28, 2009

Throughout the growing and harvest season I kept tabs on what we have harvested. In this post I’ve constructed some pretty graphs in an attempt to illustrate how well (or not!) I have done this year and how we might change things next year.
Before I dig into the data there are a couple of things [...]

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Maximizing Tomato Yield

August 25, 2009

I had an interesting conversation the other day with the folks who are responsible of the Dartmouth Square Project and  Edenbee about our upcoming talks at Electric Picnic. During the conversation their resident gardening authority  offered a couple of tips to help put my tomatoes on the fasttrack to ripeness.

I followed up our conversation with [...]

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Gardening Mob Rule – Results and Implementation

August 13, 2009

Thanks to everyone who responded to the survey I put out there a while ago looking for help with my balcony dilemmas. As promised, here is the upshot of the crowd’s decisions!
1. Should I put the tomato plants outside in the unpredictable Irish weather?

At the time I took the results, the winning option was to [...]

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