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It has been well over a week since I felt ‘normal’. Actually, I never feel normal, let me rephrase that. It has been well over a week since I felt well. This cold has really taken its toll on me. …
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Tags: August, being sick, Coastal gardening, daffodil, GARDENING, getting back into the garden, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, missing the garden, New Zealand, romanesco broccoli, Sarah the Gardener, turnips, weeding
The first seeds of the season have been sown, with love and care and great expectation. But then disaster struck. Actually, it isn’t as bad as that, but it is extremely frustrating. I have picked up some kind of cold…
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Tags: August, Coastal gardening, cold and flu, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, New season, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, seed sowing, Spring is around the corner
The weather has turned. Up until recently it was mild, even possibly warm. The sun shone for more days than it rained to the point the experts were concerned about impending summer drought as the reservoirs were at a similar…
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We are still in the grasp of midwinter, but the grip of winter is loosening. Late winter starts in a few days and with that the planning and preparation for the summer garden has amped up a gear. I have…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Geodesic biodome, greenhouse shelving, Growing Vegetables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, sorting seeds, sowing seeds
After being away for 10 days I was champing at the bit to get out into the garden and check out how it fared in my absence. To be honest I wasn’t really worried as there isn’t much going on…
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Tags: asparagus, Coastal gardening, fragrant flowers, garden progress, GARDENING, garlic rust, Growing Vegetables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, Romanesco, Sarah the Gardener
I’ve been away. Not only that, I’ve time travelled! With the garden mostly under control it was the perfect time to have a bit of a holiday. For the keen gardener mid-winter really is the best time to take a…
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Tags: Bora Bora, Coastal gardening, Eating snails, GARDENING, holiday, July, midwinter, Moorea, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Stingrays, Tahiti, The gardens of Versailles book, tropical islands
After my recent confession on the failure of the first orchard in the new place, I am determined to get it right the second time. So the first thing I did was research the trees I wanted first based on…
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Tags: Apple trees, Apricot trees, Backyard orchard, Choosing fruit trees, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing fruit, Growing vegtables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, Olive trees, Pear trees, Planting fruit trees, Plum trees, Sarah the Gardener, Spraying fruit trees
It was with great expectation I approached my Yam bed, also known as Oca. As far as I was concerned, I’d done all the right things, I’d fed and watered with a frequency that could be described as regular. I…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Don't give up, garden failures, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, July, Mid Winter, miniature pumpkins, New Zealand, oca, Sarah the Gardener, Try again next season, yams
You may or may not remember late last year I bought some fruit trees…. >Read about it here< Umm… yeah…. Well… I killed them, all of them. Well the olive still has leaves, but it might as well be dead…
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Well I did it, I grabbed a spade and pushed it into the sand, not just once but repeatedly. At the first metre of trench I celebrated. ‘This isn’t so bad.’ I may have even done a happy dance. I…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, digging, digging trenches, Early Winter, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Installing irrigation, irrigation, June, Neta Irrigation, New Zealand, preparing for spring, Sarah the Gardener
