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In Ireland, where winter temperatures remain fairly mild and summers are cool, you have the perfect climate for cultivating a lush, beautiful, and productive potager garden. A potager garden, also known as a kitchen garden, blends ornamental plants with edible crops in an eye-catching, structured layout. Here’s a step-by-step guide to designing and growing your own potager garden.

Now is the time of the year when you start planning what you will be planting and designing your garden layout. Planning a garden involves going through your seed packets from the year before, decide what you want to plant this year, how to efficiently use your space so you can plant the most fruits and vegetables, and correctly time when you are going to start sowing your seeds.

Why grow Heirloom or Open-pollinated Seeds?  Are Heirloom seeds organic? When we bought seeds for the first time, we did not know what the difference was between heirloom, open-pollinated, hybrid, and GMO. If you are asking yourselves the same questions we used to, we have tried to summarize the main differences for you. 

We all wonder when to start planting seeds indoors in the spring to give them a jump start on the growing season, so we can get fresh grown vegetables, fruits and herbs on our table sooner! This post will give you some information on the benefits and challenges of seed starting.