Barrack Hill Town Park & Community Gardens Carndonagh

18/06/2026

Looking forward to father's day???? Bring them down to our garden party fundraiser, fill them with homemade cake. All monies raised will go towards the creation of the community garden.
A lovely family day out, ALL WELCOME.
Buncrana Tidy Towns Initiative
What's On Buncrana
The Exchange Inishowen
Cashel Na Cor, Community Inclusion hub
The Mill River Conservation Group
OURganic Gardens
Toradh Talún
Wild Inishowen Club
Change Makers Donegal
St. Oran's NS Cockhill
KPM Soils
Inishowen Co-Op Garden Centre
Feel Good Fortnight
Inishowen Credit Union

14/06/2026

14/06/2026

Stop waiting for those first zucchini flowers to set fruit. Half of them never will — and that is normal.

A zucchini plant opens its male flowers first, often a week to ten days before the females appear. Early on the plant is all male blooms: pollen ready, nothing to pollinate. People panic, overwater, and overfeed a plant that is simply on schedule.

Tell them apart in a second. The female flower has a tiny zucchini already swelling at its base. The male is a plain stalk. Once both are open on the same morning, pollination happens — by bees, or by a quick swipe of a male bloom into a female.

If females open but the fruit yellows and rots at the tip, that is a pollination miss, not a disease. Hand-pollinate at 9am, before the blooms close for the day.

No fruit yet is not failure. It is the plant waiting for its other half.

14/06/2026