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I have to confess the shortest day took me a bit by surprise. Its not that I didn’t know it was coming, but the speed it approached left me feeling a little like Wylie Coyote standing there with tools unused…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Winter, elephant garlic, GARDENING, Growing onions, Growing Vegetables, June, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, shallots, Winter gardening
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana 1863 – 1952 These are wise words indeed for a gardener to heed. If you forget what you did last season you will make the same mistakes…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, Early Winter, garden planning, GARDENING, George Santayana, Growing Vegetables, June, learn from your mistakes, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
This is always a bit of a grey area as to when the new season starts and the previous one ends. It makes sense to think that when harvesting stops from plants planted in the spring is a logical end,…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: asparagus, Coastal gardening, Comfort Flower Rake, Early Winter, GARDENA NZ, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, NatureLine Spade, New Zealand, Paid post, Sarah the Gardener, Secateurs, sponsored, The new season, the winter garden
“A garden is half-made when it is well planned. The best gardener is one who does the most gardening by the winter fire.” Liberty Hyde Bailey (An inspiring American horticulturist 1858 – 1954) Due to the sudden drop in temperature…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, Early Winter, garden planning, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
I have had a lovely week. I approached it with trepidation, but I had no choice. Once again our power was off for maintenance. In an effort to catch up for the time lost during the lockdown, the power company…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Winter, garden routine, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, New Zealand, Planning for winter, powercuts, Rats, Sarah the Gardener, the winter garden
Keep doing the little things often so they don’t become big things later. This week I will be mostly weeding! Sarah the Gardener : o)
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, Early Winter, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, Keep on top of ya weeds, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
May is done. We are now in a new month and a new season. Winter. The easy month. The one where it is ok to hunker down in a cosy spot and dream dreams of dream gardens without a weed…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, concrete beach balls, Early Winter, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, garlic, Growing Vegetables, June, Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Unseasonal sunflowers
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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Category: Uncategorized
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
Well to be honest, not too shabby. The winds of last week are well behind us, although I have to say I am glad I wasn’t here. It isn’t so much the wind itself that bothers me but the horrendous…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, cuttings, Early Winter, elephant garlic, end of season asparagus, fog, GARDENING, growing asparagus, growing shallots, Growing Vegetables, June, Making soap, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, spacing out planting distances
It should have been an afternoon job, but as soon as I started it, I kept getting called away to other things and then I found I had underestimated the resources I needed and had to go out and get…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Controlling the overflow from the tap, Drainage solutions, Early Winter, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, sink hole, Small project, water catcher
