Category: VIDEO
This is not how I meant to start the year. I have dropped the ball and started to fall by the wayside. But I had a very good excuse. I somewhat foolishly decided it would be a good idea to…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: Coastal gardening, Drone shot, garden visit, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, restoring order, Virtual garden tour, you tube
The updates here are slim right now and I can only offer excuses. Firstly, a lot of what has been going on in the garden has been rather same samey, which can come across as repetitive and boring. I’m not…
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: asparagus, Coastal gardening, Early Spring, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, New Zealand, Planting potatoes, September, stormy weather, you tube
Spring has sprung and I think this time I’m ready for it. This is largely due to the amazing weather we had as winter drew to a close. I feel like it was a bit of an apology for being…
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Over the last several weeks the focus in the garden has really been about getting it planted. For some reason I have been running behind, even though my intentions were to try and get ahead. In that process I ended…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden challenges, garden tour, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, Keeping it real, Late spring, New Zealand, November, planting out, Sarah the Gardener
Having completely missed my June garden video tour due to the work on The Palace, as well as ordinary gardening things, I decided I should make the effort for an end of July garden video tour. I was aiming for…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: August, Coastal gardening, finding a balance, garden tour, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready, you tube
It has been my intention this year to do a video tour update every month, but I was a bit slow getting the end of May video done. I put it down to the nasty lurgy I had in between…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Winter, garden tour, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready, You Tube video
This is a strange time of year. Daylight savings has ended but it is still warm-ish and we are wandering about our days feeling it should be later than it is, which strangely gives us more time in our days. …
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: April, Coastal gardening, Cover crops, garden tour, GARDENING, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, vegetable gardening, you tube
Once again summer has come to an end and as usual my monthly video garden tour has been left to the last minute. It has been a busy time just recently with a lot more doing stuff than documenting the…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: Boy and girl asparagus, Coastal gardening, February, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, how to tell when a melon is ready, Identifying carrot seedlins, Late Summer, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Tomato Potato psyllid, Wind break maths
To mark the last day of January I filmed a quick garden tour to show the state of the garden as it stands, as representative of the middle month of summer. To be honest, I’m quite pleased with it, all…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden tour, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, painted shed, Sarah the Gardener, the height of summer, you tube
The run up to Christmas has been a little bit hectic, with last minute shopping and a busy work life balance, but I can now finally throw myself into all things Christmas and enjoy the festive season with my family. …
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: Christmas, Coastal gardening, Crops for the Christmas table, December, Early Summer, garden tour, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, you tube