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This weekend I did something I’d been putting off for absolutely ages. During the summer I grew French Red shallots. Every year I hold back my biggest and replant them in the hopes that I end up with something a…
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Category: COOKING, GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Making salt, May, New Zealand, pickled onions, Sarah the Gardener, shallots
I’m really starting for make some great progress in the garden and the feelings of being overwhelmed are slipping away. There are some seriously dodgy areas that have gone way out of control and some pretty big projects on the…
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: brassica, brick paving, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Late Autumn, May, New Zealand, progress, Sarah the Gardener, spring bulbs, trimming gaura
Now that I have my Handy Helper who pops along once a week to help out, to make things easier for me, I have this huge hankering in me to create a visible difference in the garden so when she…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, Doing too much, Garden maintenance, Garden shopping, GARDENING, Getting help, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, May, Native trees, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, weeds
As I have sunken my teeth into a large project, with a couple of minor projects on the go, a few projects I’m champing at the bit to start, and a veggie garden that is largely under control as it…
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There has been a major spanner in my #MakeMayCount works. We have had horrible weather. Now I’m not adverse to a bit of bad weather but to work in this would be madness. It has been 3 days of super…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, GARDENING, home made soup, Late Autumn, Making soap, May, New Zealand, rescuing succulents, Sarah the Gardener, waiting for the weather to improve, windy weather
Last week disappeared in a complete blur. There was lots of the usual hoeing and rock building but that’s kind of becoming a bit boring – well not boring to do but boring to talk about. The weather has thrown…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: #MakeMayCount, aphids, building a rock, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, lawn repair, May, New Zealand, peanuts, Sarah the Gardener
To be honest I think the brick saga has had more of an impact on my #MakeMayCount timeline. Up until the bricks entered my world, I was making great progress, but collecting them was a huge effort and then they…
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: #MakeMayCount, autumn seedlings, bricks, Coastal gardening, cuttings, GARDENING, Growing onions, Growing Vegetables, iris bulbs, Late Autumn, May, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
I set off into the #MakeMayCount with a whiz and a bang with a superhero mentality of all things are possible. In my head I can see each of the projects I want to achieve broken down into individual chores…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: #MakeMayCount, building a rock, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Good Nature Rat Trap, Growing flowers, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, May, New Zealand, not overdoing things, Sarah the Gardener, spring bulbs
During #MakeMayCount, I need to embrace activities that happen beyond the garden and value them as productive time. Yesterday I spent several hours in the morning doing some computer gardening but found myself getting frustrated at being indoors because I…
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden routines, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Inkweed, Late Autumn, May, New Zealand, Rats, rock making, Sarah the Gardener, weeding
Day 2 of #MakeMayCount was starting to look like there would be no room at all for anything ‘planty’. As it was a weekend day, we wanted to paint one of the bedrooms in our house. We haven’t really done…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: avocado, avocado orchard, Coastal gardening, garden visit, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Listen along, Make May Count, May, Sarah the Gardener