Person: Klaus Laitenberger

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

<p>The exclusive 1824 Bar at the Shelbourne Hotel, in Dublin, hosts a special evening of Hennessy cognacs and cocktails</p>

food

Menu: Healthy food - homegrown or prepared by chefs and juice-makers

Perfectly Pure Juices is a range of fresh fruit and vegetable juices with no added sugar, preservatives or chemicals, made by Kath McCausland, in Dungannon, in Co Tyrone

Plants can provide a forecast for weather and point to climate change

home and gardens

Fighting fly and fungal problems in your garden

home and gardens

Techniques for growing great tomatoes

home and gardens

Fiann O’Nuallain discusses organic-interest research and education in Ireland

farming

Olvier Moore: Heavier cattle are compacting soil

Oliver Moore: What does EPA say of Irish soil quality?

Soil quality is a hot topic this year, the UN International Year of the Soil.

Thu, 09 Jul, 2015

Oliver Moore: Rich soil holds key to organic success

I visited a friends’s allotment in Clare recently. It was a gorgeous sunny day, and the gardens were abundant, almost teeming with wildflowers as we approached.

Thu, 02 Jul, 2015

Get your teeth into a crunchy home-grown carrot

Brilliant orange, crunchy, and crammed with flavour, nothing quite compares to the earthy, sweet taste of a freshly pulled, home-grown carrot.

Sat, 16 May, 2015

Our gardening noticeboard

Helen Dillon, the renowned plantswomen, writer, lecturer and broadcaster will give a lecture on gardening to the Cork Literary and Scientific Society on Thursday, January 29, at 8pm in the Crawford Art Gallery, Emmet Place. 

Sat, 24 Jan, 2015

Take out the seed packets to begin the new garden year

Even the most diehard gardeners will spend a good part of January indoors, be that finalising rotation plans or simply browsing through new seed catalogues. 

Sat, 17 Jan, 2015