I bought a few sunflower plants for our BLOOM stand this morning. I was actually on my way to buy some bags of farm yard manure in the local Connacht Gold co-op when the sunny bright faces of the sunflowers caught my eye. They were standing by the side of the road in Ballaghaderreen inContinue reading “Sun flowers from local market”
Author Archives: Ciaran Burke
Collecting newspaper
Over the last couple of months I have been collecting newspapers from friends of mine. From a typical broad sheet paper I can make about 100 pots for sowing seeds, maybe even more. Each week I collect a bag like this one, lots of pots!
Project Nasturtium Bloom 2010
Project Nasturtium We enjoyed it so much last year we decided it to do it again! Thousands of visitors to Bloom meant to make a newspaper pot using an old smoothies bottle, and then sowed a nasturtium seed and brought it home. Once again our main sponsors are Enrich and Sutton’s Seeds. This year weContinue reading “Project Nasturtium Bloom 2010”