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Pickles, sauces and spiralising: Using up the summer's veg harvest
Michael Kelly
Gardening: Grow your own tomatoes - from seed to sauce
Michael Kelly
GIY: Make your own mildew spray and bake some courgette bread
Michael Kelly
Grow it yourself: 'Onions - a phenomenally useful veg'
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GIY: 'Turnips are perfect for late summer sowing'
Michael Kelly
Gardening: This week, a beer trap for pesky slugs and seasonal soups
Michael Kelly
Gardening: Forage elderflowers now for a fresh, blossom-infused cordial
Michael Kelly
'Sunflowers literally follow the sun across the horizon, only to turn back and face east by sunrise'
Michael Kelly
July Gardening: 'This is the start of a super-abundant period in the veg patch'
Michael Kelly
Gardening: Pick your beetroot early for summer salads and slaws
Michael Kelly
'A bowl of seasonal goodness using veg from our land and fish from our seas'
Michael Kelly
Grow it yourself: New potato salad with capers and herbs
Michael Kelly
Gardening column: Growing carrots in the veg patch and roasting radishes in the kitchen
Michael Kelly
Grow it yourself: Barley salad with green garlic and sugarsnap peas
Michael Kelly
GIY Comfrey: Grown for it's healing powers, comfrey is a great garden fertiliser
Michael Kelly
Grow it yourself: Pearl barley and spring greens soup
Michael Kelly
Fancy a nettle tea? Spring nettles are abundant right now and have lots of health benefits
Michael Kelly
When to use horticultural fleece: 'The Irish spring can bite you in the bum'
Michael Kelly
Gardening: Grow your own ingredients for the Hairy Bikers' cheesy, oniony panhaggerty
Michael Kelly
Grow it yourself: Seed sowing tips from our gardening guru
Michael Kelly
GIY column: This week, it's time to start sowing your vegetable seeds
Michael Kelly
GIY: Growing tomatoes successfully and a pitta pocket recipe
Michael Kelly
Gardening: It's spring in the veg patch and we have a recipe for broccoli and cheese risotto
Michael Kelly
'Irish people put their spuds in the ground around St Paddy’s Day, believing it to be an auspicious day'
Michael Kelly
Gardening column: What to grow when you don't have much space, plus a wild garlic pesto recipe
Michael Kelly
Luscious starter of broccoli gratin with anchovy-infused cream: Grow it yourself
Michael Kelly
Updates from the potting shed - and a recipe for spicy carrot and lentil soup
Michael Kelly
GIY Guru: 'I’ve become interested in mindfulness, sitting quietly for ten minutes, in the morning'
Michael Kelly
Courgette shortage: Grow your own instead plus a recipe for pan-fried Jerusalem artichokes
Michael Kelly
Gardening: 'When children grow their own food, they develop 'food empathy' and have better diets'
Michael Kelly
Gardening column: How to keep hens, plus a kale and cheddar cheese risotto recipe
Michael Kelly
Gardening: Plant your potatoes right now plus a recipe for warming winter root veg frittata
Michael Kelly
Garden Guru: GIYing your own ingredients for hummus and beetroot burgers
Michael Kelly
Gardening guru: January to-do list plus a delicious recipe for buttery colcannon
Michael Kelly
GIY: For first-time vegetable growers, leeks are an easy and tasty option
Michael Kelly
GIY Chicory: Bring some colour to your vegetable patch and a bite to your salad bowls
Michael Kelly
Mibuna: The mustardy Japanese leaf that's super easy to grow
Michael Kelly
GIY Yacon: The Peruvian tuber that looks like a potato but tastes like a pear
Michael Kelly
Rediscover your roots: 'Exotic oca thrives in Irish gardens'
Michael Kelly
Corn salad: Super-hardy, nutty-flavoured salad leaves to sow now
Michael Kelly