We are now starting and potting more plants for the remainder of August just to make the most of the growing season. In September and October we'll be doing more homesteading jobs and preserving autumns bounty from the gardens. This week it cooled down a lot since last weeks heat wave and with that the rain wasn't long to follow. Although the no dig gardens do very well during times of drought, plants are looking relieved and our new no dig garden has greened up a lot. Hopefully it'll turn into a canopy of produce by the end of September leaving no space for weeds to grow. We also waxed our first batch of cheese for practice and upon popular request we'll be making a video of our second batch. The Winter Selection Pre-Sale is available NOW. Remember to use discount code: earlybird22 for 15%. The first 100 pre-orders will include a free packet of our own red russian kale seeds, some giant oriental poppy seeds and a free lemon balm seedling. Take a look at our selection: http://gardensforlife.ie/shop Don’t forget Gardens for Life Members get a year around 25% discount on everything we do. Click link below to read more about the benefits. http://gardensforlife.ie/members SUBSCRIBE HERE for Free: http://gardensforlife.ie/subscribe Check out our website for lots of pictures, info and videos on near zero maintenance and highly productive gardening, many recipes, country wine and cordial making, medicinal and food plants, plant propagation and much more. #food #garden #gardening ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjvmVN_csFY

This spring we have set up a grow challenge. You can grow food anywhere anyplace even without access to land. We are growing 6 different ancient edible tubers in pots and we are going to give the harvest away in a free giveaway raffle at the end of the growing season. We do like potatoes but in this challenge we included something a little more exotic - Oca, Mashua and Jerusalem Artichoke. What is your favorite root vegetable? Please comment below. :D We have posted a video (see below) of setting up 12 large pots filled with compost mulched with woodchips and volcanic rock dust. These are in a permanent location in the middle of our nursery in full sun and will be looked after until harvest time. Although nearly zero maintenance they will be watered in times of drought. You can follow progress as we will post pictures and video updates during the summer. You can enter for FREE simply follow the link below and subscribe to our website. http://gardensforlife.ie/6-ancient-vegetables-grow-challenge-and-new-giveaway ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk-WF5Xuh_Q