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I can say that, for this week, progress has been made. But it feels a little like it was hard fought for. Aside from easing myself out of a boom and bust yo-yo cycle where I do too much one…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Clearing an overgrown path, Coastal gardening, Corners of Shame, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, Hot temperatures, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, Ploughman's pickle, Sarah the Gardener, Too hot to garden
As I mentioned in the last update, I have a wonderful garden club coming to visit the garden next month, and I need to make the corners look nice. I think in the face of everything else I was in…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: barley straw in pond, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, Removing weeds with Tyndallization, Sarah the Gardener, Trellis arch, Tyndallization
And just like that we are at the start of a new year, with the festive holiday season behind us and the months ahead stretching out like a blank canvas. Aside from a smattering of dates beginning to fill the…
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To mark the last day of January I filmed a quick garden tour to show the state of the garden as it stands, as representative of the middle month of summer. To be honest, I’m quite pleased with it, all…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden tour, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, painted shed, Sarah the Gardener, the height of summer, you tube
If I am to learn anything from this month is to lower my expectations. This is not a normal month where life ticks by with the ebb and flow of a reliable routine. It is filled with holidays and opportunities…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Balancing life and the garden, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, giant pumpkin, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, painted shed, Sarah the Gardener, tomatoes
This is always such an interesting time of year; the summer holidays just keep giving. I have settled down in my garden office for the 3rd time this year determined to start the year on the right foot, with a…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, family time, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, making memories, Managing goals, Midsummer, New beginnings, New Zealand, routines, Sarah the Gardener
I have been away on our annual summer break. I do find Christmas and the summer holiday a tad incompatible with a fully burgeoning garden, however that is an argument for another day and at the end of the day…
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After the drama of the Great Water Escape over Christmas when we lost over 30,000 litres overnight thanks to a tap fiddler, I’ve made a few changes. The leak wasn’t intentional as the tap didn’t immediately gush with water and…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: clever watering, Coastal gardening, Gardena, GARDENA Water Computer MasterControl, GARDENA Water Distributor Automatic, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, irrigation, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, Paid post, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored, watering the garden
I had a bit of a problem. Well it was a good problem, but with a knock on effect that turned it into a not so good problem. But in terms of real life serious problems it is hardly a…
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Category: COOKING, Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing onions, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, pickled onion recipe, pickled onions, Pickling onions, Sarah the Gardener
This takes us to the final phase of what I got up to this week. It got a little muddily towards the end of the week. The wind died down to just a gentle puff which was lovely. The first…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: asparagus, beans, Coastal gardening, corn, cucumbers, GARDENING, garlic, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Leafy greens, Midsummer, New Zealand, potatoes, Sarah the Gardener