Sun flowers from local market

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 in the misty rain. They looked like they were hitching a lift.

The sunflowers were being sold by a local nursery at the farmers market. I thought they would be perfect for our Project Nasturuim stand, and it is good to support local business. Later this evening Hanna and I will visit their nursery to select some flowering plants of nasturtiums.

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 we have not only nasturtium seeds but sun flowers and coriander too, which will be sown in peat free organic compost.

Bloom 2010 starts on Thursday 3rd of June and runs every day until Monday 7th of June. If you are visiting Bloom make sure to drop by and sow some seeds.