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About Me:
Diary of allotment holder Ciara Carrott
About Me:
A twentysomething with a passion for family, growing veg, baby-making and mojitos
- Ciara Carrott
- "Owning an allotment is the ultimate workout I'm told: fresh air, back ache, dirt under the fingernails and the joys of growing your own is something I am looking forward to.
The plan is to be self-sufficient by growing vegetables in my new allotment in Castlefarm, Narraghore, Athy.
Beating the crunch by making my lunch! A word of warning, this is by no means an advice column, merely an experimentation and record of a newbie allotment holder/veggie grower."
Allotment March 9th
Allotment April 4th
Allotment May 3rd
Allotment May 16th
Allotment June 6th
Resources
- Trevor's Kitchen Garden
- The Organic Centre, Rossinver, Leitrim
- The National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners
- The Daily Spud
- Teagasc, the agriculture and food development
- South Dublin Allotments Association
- Leinster Leader - For Ciara Carrott's weekly column
- Irish Organic Farmers and Growers Association
- Irish Community Gardening
- Irish allotments
- Irish Allotment Information Source
- Hot Cross Mum
- Get Growing Campaign
- Garden Organic, UK
- Eight Square Metres
- Dublin Food Growing
- Cheap eats
- Castlefarm, Narraghmore, Athy
- Adventures in my urban garden
Labels
- allotment
- allotment envy
- allotment madness
- aphid
- Athy
- bamboo shoots
- Beetroot
- birds
- blackfly
- blight
- brassicas
- Broadbeans
- buttercups
- canes
- Carrott Jnr
- castlefarm
- chitting
- cider
- creepy crawlies
- crows
- docks
- dresscode
- Eamonn Ryan
- fertiliser
- flea beetle
- French beans
- garlic
- Get Ireland Growing
- goosegrass
- Green Party
- greenfly
- herbs
- kale
- kids
- labels
- leeks
- legumes
- lettuce
- manure
- Michelle Obama
- mom
- Narraghmore
- netting
- nettles
- onions
- organic
- organic farming
- pea moths
- peas
- pest
- pest control
- pests
- plot
- ploughing
- potatoes
- rabbits
- record book
- rhubarb
- roots
- rotation plan
- rows
- runner beans
- sarpo axona
- scarecrow
- seed potatoes
- seed trays
- seedaholic
- seedlings
- seeds
- shallors
- shallots
- singing
- slugs
- snails
- soil
- spinach
- talking to plants
- Tilling
- tools
- trench
- Trevour Sargent
- vegetables
- weeding
- weeds
- wheelbarrow
- white butterflies
- whitefly
- wigwams
- wipeout
- wood pigeons