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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
In order to decide what to grow, (see yesterday’s post) I needed to assess the state of the garden and see what can go where, and what is still lingering. It is always good to do a state of the…
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, cool season seed sowing, February, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Summer, Late summer garden to do list, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, sowing seed, State of the garden, what to sow in autumn
I put socks on yesterday. I’m probably just being a bit namby pamby, but my feet got cold. Not winter cold by any stretch of the imagination. But that shock cold when the temperatures you have been used to up…
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We are still in summer, repeat after me ‘we are still in summer’. It is becoming a little bit hard to believe right now. After the rain eventually came there has been a perceivable shift in the way things feel. …
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Category: COOKING, GARDENING
Tags: basil, Coastal gardening, February, freezing onion, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Summer, meal planning, New Zealand, okra, Processing the harvest, Sarah the Gardener, scallopini
It has been a long hot summer. The kind of endless summer you remember as a kid, when the sun shines for days on end and it seems like it will last forever. You go to bed at night with…
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I’m leaping for joy. Ordinarily this would be the last day of summer! Normally, on this day I would begin to bemoan the demise of the fair weathered season and get ready for all things all things autumn. However, this…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, cruel summer, end of summer, February, GARDENING, getting ready for autumn, Growing Vegetables, Late Summer, Leap Day, leap year, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
You may still need to water in the rain! It was nice to have some rain, but dig down to see how far it got into the soil… probably not far! The last decent rain we had was before Christmas,…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, February, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Summer, Monday Message, New Zealand, Rain is good, Sarah the Gardener, water in the rain
Over the last wee while there has been a bit of a battle going on in the garden and up until recently I was the biggest loser. There have been rats! They have been so bold and brazen that they…
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MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES. The season will change soon enough and it will be too cold and miserable to want to finish projects. Without wanting to seem like a harbinger of doom, this warm, rain free weather…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, February, finish the projects you have started, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Summer, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
There is one thing I haven’t managed to sort out in the garden, and it has been bothering me all season. Actually, there are many things I haven’t sorted out in the garden, but this one is especially important and…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: broody chicken, Coastal gardening, February, GARDENING, Growing mulch, Growing Vegetables, Late Summer, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Tree lupin as mulch, Weeds as mulch, wheat as mulch
