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“A garden is half-made when it is well planned. The best gardener is one who does the most gardening by the winter fire.” Liberty Hyde Bailey (An inspiring American horticulturist 1858 – 1954) Due to the sudden drop in temperature…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, Early Winter, garden planning, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
I have had a lovely week. I approached it with trepidation, but I had no choice. Once again our power was off for maintenance. In an effort to catch up for the time lost during the lockdown, the power company…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Winter, garden routine, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, New Zealand, Planning for winter, powercuts, Rats, Sarah the Gardener, the winter garden
Keep doing the little things often so they don’t become big things later. This week I will be mostly weeding! Sarah the Gardener : o)
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, Early Winter, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, Keep on top of ya weeds, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
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
Well I did it, I grabbed a spade and pushed it into the sand, not just once but repeatedly. At the first metre of trench I celebrated. ‘This isn’t so bad.’ I may have even done a happy dance. I…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, digging, digging trenches, Early Winter, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Installing irrigation, irrigation, June, Neta Irrigation, New Zealand, preparing for spring, Sarah the Gardener
Well to be honest, not too shabby. The winds of last week are well behind us, although I have to say I am glad I wasn’t here. It isn’t so much the wind itself that bothers me but the horrendous…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, cuttings, Early Winter, elephant garlic, end of season asparagus, fog, GARDENING, growing asparagus, growing shallots, Growing Vegetables, June, Making soap, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, spacing out planting distances
It should have been an afternoon job, but as soon as I started it, I kept getting called away to other things and then I found I had underestimated the resources I needed and had to go out and get…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Controlling the overflow from the tap, Drainage solutions, Early Winter, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, sink hole, Small project, water catcher
So much has happened in such a short space of time. Firstly, it is now winter. It is cold. I’m allowed to say that now. In autumn I was putting on a brave face, so while it was getting colder…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Building a new shed, Coastal gardening, Cover crops, Early Winter, garden tour, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, time lapse video, winter garden, you tube
I have a mountain of earth to move. It equates to 6 truckloads of good quality swamp-like soil from ‘up near Froggies’ near where we used to live. I feel confident it will be a fabulous growing medium for my…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Early Winter, Filling raised beds, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, Moving soil, New garden, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, time lapse video, you tube
I feel like I have bitten off more than I can chew, and my eyes are bigger than my stomach but I really want what I want, so I will work hard to get there. My garden is huge. Last…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Building raised beds, Early Winter, Filling raised beds, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, New garden, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, time lapse video, you tube
SARAH THE GARDENER 