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May is done. We are now in a new month and a new season. Winter. The easy month. The one where it is ok to hunker down in a cosy spot and dream dreams of dream gardens without a weed…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, concrete beach balls, Early Winter, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, garlic, Growing Vegetables, June, Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Unseasonal sunflowers
I have to say I am rather glad I am trying to make the month count that is the least productive as far as effort required in the actual garden. I have spent way too long this week doing computer…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Do one more thing, Finding Motivation, fortnightly plant feed, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, garlic, greenhouse, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, New Zealand, out of season sunflowers, peas, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, strawberries
This takes us to the final phase of what I got up to this week. It got a little muddily towards the end of the week. The wind died down to just a gentle puff which was lovely. The first…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: asparagus, beans, Coastal gardening, corn, cucumbers, GARDENING, garlic, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Leafy greens, Midsummer, New Zealand, potatoes, Sarah the Gardener
There has been an imperceptible shift in the garden. Up until this point I feel like I have been managing tender young seedlings, doing what I can to nurture them into independence. They have been scrawny, scrappy and poorly and…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, December, Early Summer, GARDENING, garlic, Growing Vegetables, New Zealand, okra, onion, pumpkins, Sarah the Gardener, Seedlings becoming plants, vegetable garden, zucchini
While I have been taking a few things here and there, like the globe artichokes. I have been quite simple with these – just pick, wash and steam until tender. Then we normally dip the scales into melted butter and…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, curing garlic, GARDENING, garlic, Garlic harvest, garlic rust, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, Managing a large garden, New Zealand, November, Sarah the Gardener, When to harvest garlic
But that is the beauty of the garden – it is completely forgiving. Plans can be made, but nothing is set in concrete – except the things actually set in concrete like fence posts! Over the last year I have…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: April, carrots, crop rotation, garden planning, GARDENING, garlic, Growing Vegetables, lima beans, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, peppers, Sarah the Gardener, zucchini
The days are long, the sky is blue and the temperatures are soaring. It is the perfect combination for the veggie garden. I am seeing a harvest and am completely delighted. There were a few points in time when it…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: beetroot, GARDENING, garlic, Growing Vegetables, Heatwave, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, onion, potato, Sarah the Gardener, the harvest, Tomato seedlings, vegetables, wordless wednesday
It seems like forever since I have been in the garden. Last week I was at the flower show which was exciting and inspiring, and I loved every moment. This week we had a bereavement in the family and while…
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A spoonful at a time! While most of the garden is still very new and either recently planted or still to be planted, there are some crops that have been in for ages. The onion and the garlic were the…
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Category: COOKING, Uncategorized
Tags: Eating elephant garlic flowers, elephant garlic, Elephant garlic scapes, GARDENING, garlic, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, New Zealand, November, onions, Sarah the Gardener
And it isn’t Bug-ger. Although this is the sentiment of the situation. You just can’t win with the weather. This year can easily be described with soggy soggy soggy soggy dry. And not just any dry, but the one tinged…
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