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The drop to level three couldn’t have come sooner. Not only for the health and wellbeing of all the kiwis who have put in the hard yards to get us to this point, but also, I was beginning to get…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Spring, finding a balance, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, How to transplant seedlings, Lockdown, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, September, Transplanting seedlings
I have a long list of things I absolutely need as soon as we get out of lockdown level 4. Level 3 is still pretty high security but it frees up what can be bought – it doesn’t need to…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: carrot seedlings, Coastal gardening, Early Spring, finding a balance, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, iris flowers, Lockdown, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, September, shopping list
For the last wee while I have been Big Picture Thinking, with my drive to get spring ready. But now we are in spring and as the garden wakes from its winter dormancy I’m finding things are moving fast. There…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Spring, finding a balance, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, Lockdown, New Zealand, planting plants, Sarah the Gardener, September, sowing seeds, Transplanting seedlings, weeding
Except it is for me… I need it. But here in lockdown level 4 the local shops aren’t selling it. All I can hope is we nip this thing in the bud – and all signs show we can, and…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Spring, Father's day, finding a balance, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Lockdown, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, September, sowing seeds, The big to-do list, Transplanting seedlings
That heading has so many emotions all tied up in it: “Hooray the warmer weather is on the way” “…But I’m not ready…” “Ohh so much hope and expectation – surely it will be a good season” “I’m so excited…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: August, Building windbreak, Coastal gardening, finding a balance, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, Lockdown, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, The big to-do list
Ok, it is Tuesday, and I may have started without you, but I think I have formulated a vague plan for the week to get ahead and become spring ready. According to my countdown to spring giveaway over on my…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: August, Building windbreak, Coastal gardening, Cover crops, finding a balance, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, Lockdown, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, The big to-do list, Towards being spring ready
After months and months of a relatively normal existence, we find ourselves once again in lockdown. I trust that our country is doing the right thing to keep us safe as Delta attempts to darken our door. In the meantime,…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: August, Building windbreak, Cleaning the greenhouse, Coastal gardening, Countdown to spring giveaway, Cover crops, finding a balance, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, Lockdown, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Spring cleaning, The big to-do list, Towards being spring ready
And it certainly isn’t waiting for this gardener! I have been in and out of the garden this week, but I can say without a shadow of doubt, I’m not progressing with my spring preparations as quickly as I’d like. …
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: August, Building windbreak, Cleaning the greenhouse, Coastal gardening, Cover crops, finding a balance, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Spring cleaning, The big to-do list, Towards being spring ready
I hate it when a week disappears out from under me, doesn’t it know I have plans. Some of the week was spent not gardening because the weather was awful – we had a huge storm – right in off…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: August, Coastal gardening, finding a balance, GARDENING, gathering supplies, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, storm damage, stormy weather, Towards being spring ready
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