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… On a Tuesday. The weather outside might be terrible, but all storms pass eventually. Today is really stormy – it was yesterday too. You really feel it out here exposed on the coast. The garden seems to be holding…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: April, Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Mid Autumn, Monday Message, new normal, New Zealand, stay safe, stormy weather
I had the pleasure of chatting to the lovely Sam and Julia on Newstalk ZB this morning and one of the things we talked about was things that can be growing things from the kitchen when you don’t have ‘proper’…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: April, Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing things from the kitchen, Growing Vegetables, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, stay safe
Find a new rhythm and look for a new normal. It is strange times indeed. Daylight savings finished the other day and it made no difference – I didn’t need to be anywhere so time is almost irrelevant. Even the…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts
Tags: April, Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Mid Autumn, Monday Message, new normal, New Zealand, stay safe
I have been rather busy lately. I am fortunate in that my workloads and deadlines haven’t changed and writing about gardening is just as popular as it ever was. So, I have been tucked away in my office or creating…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: April, Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, harvesting pumpkins, Harvesting the last of summer, Mid Autumn, Monday Message, New Zealand, preparing pumpkins for storage, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, sweetcorn, watermelon
I love a good party as much as the next person, but when you are the host, there is a lot of work behind the scenes that needs to happen to make sure the event runs smoothly. If you get…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: April, baking, Fundraiser, garden party, Garden preparation, Garden to Table, garden visitors, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, weeding the garden
But that is the beauty of the garden – it is completely forgiving. Plans can be made, but nothing is set in concrete – except the things actually set in concrete like fence posts! Over the last year I have…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: April, carrots, crop rotation, garden planning, GARDENING, garlic, Growing Vegetables, lima beans, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, peppers, Sarah the Gardener, zucchini
My greenhouse journey has been long and arduous, fraught with horrifying drama – mostly occurring as a shock to the bank balance! To be honest I’m not sure how much it cost and really don’t want to know. So after…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: April, GARDENING, Geodesic biodome, Glasshouse, glazing the dome, Growing Vegetables, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, Time lapse, you tube
Our water tank has a little red ball poking out of the top. It should be on a long stick as the internal part is floating on the surface of the water letting us know just how much we have…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: April, Ayrlies Garden, French Tarragon, garden visit, GARDENING, gardening with friends, Growing Vegetables, Herbs, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, rain, Sarah the Gardener, water
All things gardening have been a bit sluggish lately. Fortunately, this isn’t a euphemism for actual slugs in the garden… now that would be devastating and have a much more dramatic heading. No, the problems in the garden have been…
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Aside from us coastal newbies, that is… It is always good for a gardener to know who will be sharing the land with you. I got off relatively easily at the last place in the swamp, as there weren’t all…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: April, Deer, frogs, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, know your neighbours, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, Rabbits, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, snails
SARAH THE GARDENER 