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(A paid post with the good people from GARDENA NZ) The thing I love about the garden is there is always something new to do or discover. But the knock on effect of this is there are some things that…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: clever watering, Coastal gardening, Gardena, GARDENA Water Computer MasterControl, GARDENA Water Distributor Automatic, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, How to clear blocked drippers, How to get irrigation ready for the growing season, irrigation, mid spring, Neta Irrigation, New Zealand, October, Paid post, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored, watering the garden
After the drama of the Great Water Escape over Christmas when we lost over 30,000 litres overnight thanks to a tap fiddler, I’ve made a few changes. The leak wasn’t intentional as the tap didn’t immediately gush with water and…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: clever watering, Coastal gardening, Gardena, GARDENA Water Computer MasterControl, GARDENA Water Distributor Automatic, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, irrigation, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, Paid post, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored, watering the garden
With the summer holidays fast approaching the lawn becomes more than the grassy area between the house and the garden. Being the only flat area of land we actually have, it is quite useful. It started out flat and grassy…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: caring for grass, Coastal gardening, December, Early Summer, Gardena, GARDENA Spreader L, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, New Zealand, Paid post, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored, Yates, Yates Weed n Feed
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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Category: Uncategorized
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