Adam’s Nature
Field notes on trees, seeds and the science of keeping them alive, written from a garden in Ireland.
Latest from the notebook
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Building a horticultural lab in a back garden
Why a flatpack greenhouse, a Raspberry Pi and a handful of sensors are about to become my research station.
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The Irish Atlantic Rainforest series: my thoughts
My thoughts after watching Eoghan Daltun's two-part RTÉ series on the Irish Atlantic rainforest.
What I’m working on
- The lab
- Turning a 6 by 10 foot greenhouse into a monitored growing space, logging temperature, humidity, soil and light around the clock.
- Ash dieback
- Following the science on protecting ash from Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, and what an amateur can usefully contribute.
- Growing from seed
- Beech, holm oak and giant redwood, sown this autumn and left out for the winter to do its work.