Every month in the Irish kitchen garden has a job. Most of them take thirty minutes. Here is the full year, month by month, for Italian seed varieties in Irish conditions.

Something has shifted. You can feel it at the supermarket checkout, in the news headlines, in conversations at the kitchen table. Prices are rising. Shelves that were once reliably full are sometimes unexpectedly empty. Economists are cautious. Families are cutting…

May is one of the most rewarding months in the Irish growing calendar. The risk of frost has passed in most parts of the country, temperatures are climbing, and the soil is finally warm enough to welcome a full range…