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This is always the most challenging time of year in life and in the garden. As we get closer to Christmas, the pressure mounts. The start of the month is fraught with the tension of end of year deadlines that…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Christmas, Coastal gardening, December, Early Summer, GARDENING, Gardening and the holidays, Growing Vegetables, La Nina, Preparing the garden for the festive season, Sarah the Gardener, Split tomatoes, too much rain
When you move to a new spot it can take a while to get the hang of the new environment and adjust your technique and style to the new conditions. For the most part I have been quite happy with…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Building an insect mesh structure, Coastal gardening, garden challenges, GARDENING, getting stuff done, growing tomatoes, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, New Zealand, November, Pith Necrosis, Sarah the Gardener, Tomato Potato psyllid
After a period of life getting in the way of the garden with its dodgy weather, emotionally anxious pandemic, teens and exam related stress and non gardening computer related activities, the pendulum swung back in my favour. All it took…
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: A garden full of potential, Coastal gardening, garden challenges, GARDENING, getting stuff done, gherkins, Growing Vegetables, Haymakers punch, Late spring, New Zealand, November, Sarah the Gardener, Things look better on a sunny day
Normally my only early thoughts of Christmas are getting the spuds into the garden on time. Jersey Benne’s take 100 days and so the planting day is 16th September. Then I turn my back on all things festive until about…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Christmas, Christmas gift ideas, Christmas tree, Coastal gardening, garden challenges, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, New Zealand, November, Sarah the Gardener
Yesterday a found myself with a bit of a headache I just couldn’t shake so I erred on the side of caution and didn’t push myself to do much at all. So today was a bit of catch up. It…
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden challenges, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, hot spring days, Late spring, Making sauerkraut, New Zealand, November, Sarah the Gardener, Summers coming, Weeding and digging
It was touch and go there for a while as to whether I would actually achieve my daily 5 things. I was slow to get out into the garden due to a load of computer gardening. Some of it was…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden challenges, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, hot spring days, Late spring, making a strawberry cage, New Zealand, November, Sarah the Gardener, Summers coming
Now the garden has been planted out, it is easy to think, Nah… I’ll leave it for today, the garden doesn’t really need me. Or I’ve worked hard up to this point, and it is the lull time before the…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden challenges, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, making a strawberry cage, New Zealand, November, Sarah the Gardener, Tidying the garden
Over the last several weeks the focus in the garden has really been about getting it planted. For some reason I have been running behind, even though my intentions were to try and get ahead. In that process I ended…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden challenges, garden tour, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, Keeping it real, Late spring, New Zealand, November, planting out, Sarah the Gardener
Finally, I can put down my trowel and stop lying awake at night worrying about the increasingly leggy plants growing in pots rapidly becoming too small. Everything that can be or needs to be, has been planted into the garden. …
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden challenges, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, New Zealand, November, okra, planting out, Planting plan, pre sprouting peanuts, Sarah the Gardener
The garden has been so patient, waiting for me and the weather. Getting this garden planted out is really happening in fits and starts. Yesterday was so foggy, misty, and drizzly that it wasn’t worth going out. It was the…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Bean seeds, Coastal gardening, Direct sowing, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, mid spring, New Zealand, October, planting out, Sarah the Gardener, sowing seeds