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Picking up from where we left off yesterday >You can catch up here< I am sharing my adventures in making the most of the peppers and chillies I have grown this season. No longer are they all just allowed to…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Jwala, Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, Mulato, New Zealand, Padron, Pakrika, Pepperoni, Peppers and chillies, Sarah the Gardener, Smoked chilli powder, stay safe
In my garden my pepper bed has space for 18 pepper plants. I normally pop in half a dozen bell peppers so I can have a good supply to freeze to use over the winter months as we use them…
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Tags: Cayenne, Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Habanada, Habanero, Hungarian Wax, jalapeno, Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, New Zealand, Peppers and chillies, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, Yellow banana pepper
I can hardly believe the garden is 2 years old today. On this day in 2018 the shipping container company came and took away the container that had held all our worldly possessions. The caravan that we had lived in…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden birthday, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Level 2, Make May Count, May, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe
Today marks the start of yet another new normal, and just when I was getting used to the last one. The kids headed off to school. The house is decidedly quiet, and Jasper the Dog is patiently awaiting their return…
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Tags: Autumn sunflowers, Coastal gardening, drought, Entertaining family and friends, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Level 2, Make May Count, May, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe
I need to remind myself that while I’m attempting to Make May Count, I shouldn’t overdo it. I’m not superwoman, I am a mild mannered gardener with an annoying side kick called MS. It’s just that I get a little…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Lemon verbena, Level 2, Make May Count, May, MS, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, Strawberry popcorn
I may have lied at the start of the Make May Count project. Well maybe not lie exactly, just stretched the truth when I said, “the garden is looking tidy and in control”. I had dark areas of shame. Mostly…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, compost, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, lime tree, Make May Count, May, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, strawberries, weeding
I have been so busy Making May Count that I didn’t get a chance to share the excitement with you. Saturday was productive but in a more laid back way. I continued moving thousands of photos across to my super…
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Tags: changes, chiminea, Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Landscape design, Late Autumn, lime tree, Make May Count, May, Monday Message, mothers day, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe
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
It was another mostly computer gardening day today and to be honest I didn’t mind being tucked up in my cosy office as the wind was howling and it was rather cold outside. Not exactly outside gardening weather. But what…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Homemade sriracha., Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, Mulato pepper, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Smoked chilies, stay safe
I have to say it is great to have electricity again, I really appreciate its value, especially when it enables my heater to heat my wee office because the temperatures have really dropped. However on the flip side of not…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, greenhouse, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, smoking chilies, stay safe
SARAH THE GARDENER 