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You may or may not remember late last year I bought some fruit trees…. >Read about it here< Umm… yeah…. Well… I killed them, all of them. Well the olive still has leaves, but it might as well be dead…
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As we are only a year and a bit into this new property beside the coast, there are no trees. It didn’t come with trees and I haven’t quite got to the point of planting some – well not quite,…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: autumn leaves, Coastal gardening, Gardena, Gardena combisystem Adjustable Rake, Gardena Comfort Hand Rake, GARDENING, Late Autumn, Make May Count, Making Leaf Mould, May, New Zealand, Raking autumn leaves, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored
Having a nice lawn around here is kind of a big deal. If anyone has ever built or relocated a house will agree that the lawn is the least of tradesmen’s worries. When we first got the site, it had…
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Tags: Early Autumn, Gardena, Gardena Oscillating Sprinkler ZoomMaxx, GARDENING, Growing lawns, Growing Vegetables, March, New Zealand, Repairing a damaged lawn, Repairing a summer tired lawn, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored
Of all the garden tools at my disposal the one that works the hardest is the hose. It is the font of all hydration that is not heaven sent. Actually, all the water here is heaven sent, but the hose…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Gardena, Gardena SuperFLEX Hose, GARDENING, good quality hoses, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored, toxin free hoses, watering the garden
Since we moved here back in January there was an important member of the family who came with us. However we weren’t able to bring all of his bits and pieces with us and had to leave them behind. We…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Gardena, Gardena Robotic Lawnmower, GARDENING, How to install a robotic lawnmower, Late spring, mowing lawns, New Zealand, November, Robotic Lawnmower, Sarah the Gardener, Sea View, sponsored, you tube
Finally, the weather turned to ‘not rainy’ and my schedule cleared up and I could go tree shopping. Only I’ve left it a little late. I knew I had but didn’t realise just how late as all the good stuff…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: apples, August, blueberries, Comfort Bypass Secateurs, fruit trees, Gardena, GARDENING, Getting spring ready, Growing fruit, Late Winter, New garden, New Zealand, orchard, Plums, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored
We are firmly on the down hill run to spring and the final weeks of winter are imminent. Ordinarily this fills me with excitement and a large portion of my being is jumping with joy. The rest of me really…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Boxthorn, Chopping down boxthorn, Gardena, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, Orchard preparation, pruning, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored, Tree and Shrub Lopper StarCut 160 plus
It is always the way – you just get to sink your teeth into an exciting project and something comes along and throws a spanner in the works. We had a productive couple of days with the bulldozer sorting out…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Comfort Hand Trowel, Gardena, GARDENING, Gardening indoors, Growing Vegetables, kitchen gardening, Late Autumn, May, New garden, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, stormy weather, Transplanting seedlings
Currently, in my gardenless state, any opportunity to get up close and personal with any kind of gardening and I’m in. Even a rain soaked autumnal day won’t dampen my enthusiasm, so when I was invited to help pick apples…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Apple press, apples, Early Autumn, Gardena, Gardena Fruit Collector, Gardena Fruit Picker, GARDENING, Making cider, March, New Zealand, Picking apples, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored
We have survived our first month living in a caravan with just a handful of weeks left before the house arrives. We seem to be in a lull in the busyness that has been swirling around us in the last…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Comfort Bed Sprayer, Container gardening, February, Gardena, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Summer, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, seaside garden, sponsored, watering