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It is always questionable as to when to start the growing season. But today is as good a time as any. Today is the shortest day and the thing to do on the shortest day is to plant onions. I…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: 10 years on WordPress, blog anniversary, Coastal gardening, Early Winter, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, How to plant onions, June, New season, New Zealand, planting onions, Sarah the Gardener, Shortest day, Towards being spring ready, Winter solstice
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
Well actually, just my hands on deck. The deck in front of the sheds is wide and expansive and well worth every extra dollar it took from my meager budget. Although at the time it was a bit of a…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Blind daffodils, Cleaning up, Coastal gardening, Early Winter, GARDENING, June, Listen along, Making bucket pots, New Zealand, repotting bulbs, Sarah the Gardener, storing plants in pots, Towards being spring ready, tulips
I have spent a lot of time trying to put all my ducks in a row so I can stay on top of things this winter. Ordinarily winter is a time to wind down and ease up on the gardening,…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, Cover crops, Digging in cover crops, Early Winter, GARDENING, June, Listen along, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready, welcome to winter, Winter plans
You may be wondering where I was over the last week. Certainly not in the garden. I have been nursing a bog-standard ordinary head cold. So, the last week after all that effort of trying to #MakeMayCount came to nothing…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: #MakeMayCount, Coastal gardening, Early Winter, GARDENING, June, Listen along, New Zealand, Rock building, Sarah the Gardener, welcome to winter, Winter plans
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
