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These days I have been working my way though all the winter projects on my to do list at a great rate of knots. With only 34 days until the start of spring – not counting today, I feel like…
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I’ve missed you all and I don’t know how I managed to leave it so long before getting in touch. I haven’t stopped or anything. In fact, quite the opposite. I’ve had my most productive June ever. I think the…
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: being organised, chickens, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing brassica, Growing onions, Growing Vegetables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
It is the beginning of midwinter with just over 60 days until spring – not that I’m counting and as I look around the garden not all is as it seems. There are the usual midwinter things like onion seedlings…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: borage, Coastal gardening, eggplant, GARDENING, Growing onions, Growing Vegetables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, out of season plants, peppers, Sarah the Gardener, snapdragons, sunflowers, Winter gardening
We are still in the grasp of midwinter, but the grip of winter is loosening. Late winter starts in a few days and with that the planning and preparation for the summer garden has amped up a gear. I have…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Geodesic biodome, greenhouse shelving, Growing Vegetables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, sorting seeds, sowing seeds
After being away for 10 days I was champing at the bit to get out into the garden and check out how it fared in my absence. To be honest I wasn’t really worried as there isn’t much going on…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: asparagus, Coastal gardening, fragrant flowers, garden progress, GARDENING, garlic rust, Growing Vegetables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, Romanesco, Sarah the Gardener
I’ve been away. Not only that, I’ve time travelled! With the garden mostly under control it was the perfect time to have a bit of a holiday. For the keen gardener mid-winter really is the best time to take a…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Bora Bora, Coastal gardening, Eating snails, GARDENING, holiday, July, midwinter, Moorea, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Stingrays, Tahiti, The gardens of Versailles book, tropical islands
After my recent confession on the failure of the first orchard in the new place, I am determined to get it right the second time. So the first thing I did was research the trees I wanted first based on…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Apple trees, Apricot trees, Backyard orchard, Choosing fruit trees, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing fruit, Growing vegtables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, Olive trees, Pear trees, Planting fruit trees, Plum trees, Sarah the Gardener, Spraying fruit trees
We are firmly on the down hill run to spring and the final weeks of winter are imminent. Ordinarily this fills me with excitement and a large portion of my being is jumping with joy. The rest of me really…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Boxthorn, Chopping down boxthorn, Gardena, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, Orchard preparation, pruning, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored, Tree and Shrub Lopper StarCut 160 plus
While we were away, I did do a lot of thinking about what needs to be done to get the garden ready for the spring. I have a fixed vision in my head of how I want it to be…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Filling raised beds, GARDENING, Getting spring ready, Growing Vegetables, July, lists of new garden to dos, midwinter, Moving soil, New garden, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, tasks for a new garden
After all of the dramatic events of the last nine months – making the decision to move, preparing the house to sell, not to mention the extremely stressful sale process. That is the only thing you can’t control and stands…
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