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€199 Everyone has had, at one point in their lives, the sad supermarket basil sitting on the kitchen windowsill. You might have had great intentions initially; watered it regularly, regularly plucking off leaves to use in your cooking, all with the hope that it will live beyond the standard couple of weeks. Before long, the […]
Google the name “Monty Don” and the resulting list of endearingly odd questions that appears on the screen is eye-opening in terms of what it reveals about the public’s fascination with this charismatic, Cambridge-educated British gardener, writer, broadcaster and host of BBC’s Gardeners’ World. Why does Monty Don wear red socks? What does Monty Don […]
In a world shaken by the cost of living crisis, growing some of your own food has never made more sense. For Laois man Brendan Sheppard, whose impressively productive, pretty 0.2 hectare plot, is situated on the edges of Durrow village, it’s also second nature. Now retired, this soft-spoken gardener, beekeeper and keen fisherman, comes […]