You may be wondering where I was over the last week. Certainly not in the garden. I have been nursing a bog-standard ordinary head cold. So, the last week after all that effort of trying to #MakeMayCount came to nothing…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: #MakeMayCount, Coastal gardening, Early Winter, GARDENING, June, Listen along, New Zealand, Rock building, Sarah the Gardener, welcome to winter, Winter plans
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
And just like that we are a quarter the way through the year. I really don’t know how it happens. I get up every day and try to make the most of the hours ahead of me and go back…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: #MakeMayCount, Coastal gardening, garden tour, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, May, New Zealand, onion aphids, peas, Sarah the Gardener, you tube