This Saturday, 8 July, Es Viver, the GOB garden centre, will be at the Ferreries Agricultural Fair in the Plaza España from 17.00 hours. We are hoping to be able to take part in the activities organised by APAEMA where there will be the sale of ecological products which are instigating the change towards sustainability. Continue reading Come to the Agricultural Fair in Ferreries
Tag Archives: Gardening
Sale of seedlings from the Es Viver nursery garden
GOB`s nursery garden, Es Viver, is selling off summer plants this Friday and Saturday. We are now at the end of the season for planting appetizing summer vegetables. Es Viver is putting on sale all their existing ecological plants of various local varieties for the kitchen garden: stocks of different types of peppers, aubergines, pumpkins… Continue reading Sale of seedlings from the Es Viver nursery garden
Now is the time to plant fruit trees
Es Viver, the GOB nursery garden, is selling fruit trees of Menorca produced ecologically by Caritas “Arbres d’Algendar”. Now, during the cold winter, is the best time of the year to plant them. We have apple, plum, pear, fig, peach, pomegranate trees… Continue reading Now is the time to plant fruit trees
Time to plant up the kitchen garden
Now is the time to plant seeds and plants for the kitchen garden. Es Viver, the nursery garden of GOB, has ecological plants for sale which are local varieties particularly adapted to the climate, needing less water, are stronger and less likely to become diseased, and are of the highest gastronomic quality. Continue reading Time to plant up the kitchen garden
Sewage and green filters
Time to treat sewage without mains drains
It is currently being discussed if a moratorium to stop the further construction of houses in areas without mains drains can be made by the Balearic Government. In GOB we think that the problem is not only with the building of new houses, but also with the hundreds that already exist causing nitrates to enter the Minorcan aquifer each day. Continue reading Sewage and green filters
Grafting workshop, this Saturday 19 March
Learn how to graft onto fruit trees at a workshop this Saturday 19 March at GOB´s Es Viver. The reproduction of the fruit needs this technique to maintain the characteristics of each variety, thanks to the surprising capacity of plants to accept grafting from different species. Continue reading Grafting workshop, this Saturday 19 March