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Rodgers Potato Growers

In the context of shopping local or at the very least supporting local, you won’t get much finer than this. I personally never knew that Rodgers Potatoes were awarded spud grower of the year for 2006. And they are only down the road ! Where did I find this little bit of information ? On the [...]

Belarus Meets Ballyboughal

Today Ballyboughal welcomed some new visitors to the village all the way from Belarus.

A disco was held in the hall in the village and Katherina [I hope I spelt that right....], the childrens translator was on hand to explain why exactly was it was all happening.

A huge round of applause to all involved. The disco was [...]

Hedgerow Walk. Ballyboughal. This Sunday May 29th. Anyone ?

NB: as this was taken from Peter’s Garden Blog – from a so he knows what numbers are going along perspective – you might pop over there and leave a comment with a very simple ‘I’m in‘ – click here to do so: http://blog.doneganlandscaping.com/2011/05/23/the-garden-group-may-summer-outing

The 5th Garden Group outing takes place this weekend coming Sunday May 29th.

This [...]

The #SodShow – Fridays 3pm – @DublinCityFm

It seems our very own Peter and his garden podcast have made the jump to real radio. Which is kind of funny – as he puts the audio from the live radio show on his blog as a podcast after – just in case you couldn’t tune in

That said… you have to give the [...]

Gardening On iTunes – Guess Who ?!!

He call’s it The Sodcast… credit where it’s due, it made me smile

It’s over on iTunes. It’s also on his garden blog.

Go rate it and tell him to shut up – or – go there and thank him for the gardening advice In fairness, worth the visit and well worth the [...]

Grow Your Own Garden Class

Straight from Peter’s Garden weblog…. another of his now famous garden classes is set to take place. Book it while you can. Comments over on Peters site only.

course title: grow your own garden class
where: ballyboughal [just outside Swords, north Dublin]
when: saturday 21st August 2010
time: 9.30am – 3.30pm
cost: €75 – including morning tea, lunch and all materials
numbers [...]

Cian Delaney: 18 of Irelands Highest Mountains in 62 Hours

Take a listen to above first….

More information over at the fire fighters challenge website.

To throw Cian a few bob – drop it into the pub in an envelope or ask for his Dad Ronnie.

Other than that – drop a comment below and wish the man all the very best. Well done Cian my friend – very [...]

The Best Politician For Ballyboughal

In search of the list of politicans who represent Ballyboughal I chose the following sources for my information:

Balbriggan local elections – elected/ Cllr
Dublin North TD’s – elected/ TD
You may also vote for a badger called stephen

Please note:

Stephen is not a real badger or a politician
Repeat voters are blocked by cookie
The answers are randomised in appearance as [...]

*The Grow Your Own Gardening Class

Straight from Peter’s Blog…. the garden guru is doing it again:

NEXT CLASS: saturday April 17th 9.30am – 3.30pm

*class needs minimum 8 people – maximum of 10 allowed

Booking[s] over at Peters Landscaping Weblog

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I did the grow your own gardening course about 2/3 weeks ago now…. It wasn’t until I was out recently at an event [...]

A Gardening Class ...?

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Over the last weeks I’ve been researching chatting with some friends about gardening and the usual how to bits of outdoor advice.

From those conversations came the suggestion that I should do a crash course of some format in ‘gardening‘.

I did teach horticulture and courses before. But this class request or what one should get at [...]