After my recent confession on the failure of the first orchard in the new place, I am determined to get it right the second time. So the first thing I did was research the trees I wanted first based on…
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Tags: Apple trees, Apricot trees, Backyard orchard, Choosing fruit trees, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing fruit, Growing vegtables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, Olive trees, Pear trees, Planting fruit trees, Plum trees, Sarah the Gardener, Spraying fruit trees
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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I have a confession. I have been holding out on you. But I wanted it to be a surprise. You see after the big storm back in April, when the house was still up on jacks, while the foundations underneath…
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Tags: August, garden tour, GARDENING, Geodesic biodome, Getting spring ready, greenhouse, Growing fruit, Late Winter, New garden, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, 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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I have a problem. I want it all and I want it now. But there is an ancient Chinese proverb to support me in my pressing desires. “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The next…
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Tags: apples, August, fruit trees, GARDENING, Getting spring ready, Growing fruit, Late Winter, New garden, New Zealand, orchard, peaches, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener