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On a Tuesday… again. Same same but different. Stay home, stay safe. Shop local, shop sensible. This is a still a weird old time. The Monday Message is on a Tuesday because we had a public holiday on Monday and…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: ANZAC, April, Bite sized blog post, Change, Coastal gardening, Freedom, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Level 3, Mid Autumn, Monday Message, new normal, New Zealand, Shop local, stay safe
As the days grow cooler, the love of a good chilli can add some heat! I have plenty to choose from in my garden – cayenne, jalapeno, padron (gone too far to be a playful game of spicy roulette –…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: April, Bite sized blog post, Chilli peppers, Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing chillies, Growing Vegetables, Mid Autumn, Monday Message, new normal, New Zealand, stay safe
This lockdown has been a bit of a strange creature for me as far as productivity and getting stuff done goes. I have to confess a lot of time has been spent in a bewildered state. While my life hasn’t…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: //, Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Getting things done, Going of in a new direction, Growing Vegetables, Landscaping, Mid Autumn, new normal, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe
… On a Tuesday. The weather outside might be terrible, but all storms pass eventually. Today is really stormy – it was yesterday too. You really feel it out here exposed on the coast. The garden seems to be holding…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: April, Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Mid Autumn, Monday Message, new normal, New Zealand, stay safe, stormy weather
I had the pleasure of chatting to the lovely Sam and Julia on Newstalk ZB this morning and one of the things we talked about was things that can be growing things from the kitchen when you don’t have ‘proper’…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: April, Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing things from the kitchen, Growing Vegetables, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, stay safe
I need to start by saying I am not a baker. When a small child came home from school with that little paper plate with a piece of paper stapled to it with the instructions to return the paper plate…
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Category: COOKING, Uncategorized
Tags: Catching wild yeast, Celebrating Easter in challenging times, Coastal gardening, Easter, GARDENING, Lockdown, making flour from wheat, Making hot cross buns, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe
Not wanting to go on about it, but the Pith Necrosis in my tomatoes (you can read about that >HERE<) has been on my mind. One of the things that made the conditions ideal for the disease was the soil…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, how much organic material, Improving the soil, Mid Autumn, Monday Message, new normal, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, Testing the soil, using mustard seeds to measure soil fertility
Find a new rhythm and look for a new normal. It is strange times indeed. Daylight savings finished the other day and it made no difference – I didn’t need to be anywhere so time is almost irrelevant. Even the…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts
Tags: April, Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Mid Autumn, Monday Message, new normal, New Zealand, stay safe
I have been rather busy lately. I am fortunate in that my workloads and deadlines haven’t changed and writing about gardening is just as popular as it ever was. So, I have been tucked away in my office or creating…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: April, Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, harvesting pumpkins, Harvesting the last of summer, Mid Autumn, Monday Message, New Zealand, preparing pumpkins for storage, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, sweetcorn, watermelon
I love a good party as much as the next person, but when you are the host, there is a lot of work behind the scenes that needs to happen to make sure the event runs smoothly. If you get…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: April, baking, Fundraiser, garden party, Garden preparation, Garden to Table, garden visitors, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Mid Autumn, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, weeding the garden
