Courses for 2010
One-day Introduction to Permaculture
Date: June 12th 2010
Venue: The Organic Center, Co. Leitirm
Cost: 90 Euros
Bookings: Contact The Organic Centre direct.
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Introduction to Permaculture
One-day course at Sonairte June 26th 2010
Sonairte is located at Laytown, Co. Meath
Full 10-day Permaculture Certificate Design Course
August 22-29th.
Venue: The Village, Cloughjordan, Tipperary Click here for full details
This course will also include a complete Powerdown Toolkit Training.
Tutors include: Graham Strouts, Davie Philip of the Irish Transition Network, Albert Bates of the Farm, Tenessee; Klaudia van Gool
For bookings and further information contact Davie Philip davie@cultivate.ie
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Hi there! Website and courses on offer – great! Also looks like Graham is doing the 3 day Yurt Wheel workshop at Bealkelly Woods, East Clare for CELT – CHECK with him about it and would be great to post it onto your List / Site and possibly, if you’d like to, a link to our CELT site : http://www.celtnet.org
Instant mulch garden with instant slug protection
Hi Graham,
Like to get your input on how to get those lovely mulch plots away from the slugs in the all too important early weeks. Animal control not an option really, though am always interested in ideas/experiences here.
Cheers
Thanks Niels The permaculture way is always- “the problem is the solution” and “minimum effort maximum output” which in terms of slugs and mulch means: 1)grow things slugs don’t favour- alliums such as garlic, onions, leeks; are generally a good bet; 2)try growing other seedlings to a larger size before planting out- I might grow squash in up to a three-litre pot for example; 3)otherwise you have the full gamut of slug-prevention measures at your disposal from copper strips to slugging at dusk to encouraging frogs and biodiversity, beer-traps etc.. The dryness of the season and availability of other cover for the slugs such as long grass in the paths is also a consideration. Slugs can certainly be a bigger issue in straw mulch; seaweed with its salt content may not be so bad. Be aware and happy gardening!
Rather than limiting your diet to alliums try the following. - If you have deep beds with wooden sides, slide the sides up and check them for slug eggs on a fairly regular basis, then remove the eggs -check for slugs once it goes dark with a headtorch, put them into a tub perhaps using a twig for the squemish and empty them somewhere well away from your garden.
We live on the wet and windy Isle of Skye which is slug heaven. Using these methods we have very limited and acceptable losses.
Shots form the Cashel course are up on Photobucket. Tghis includes a design for a 2.5 acre plot/
Google photobucket and then key in Aimsir1
There’s a link here , but I dion’t hink this form accepts them.
http://s917.photobucket.com/albums/ad14/Aimsir1/
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