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With less than a week left of spring, it is pretty much safe to say the garden is all but done. There are a few bits and pieces left to do, like sort out the flowers – but they don’t…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: All planted out, Cleaning the greenhouse, Gardena, GARDENING, Gardening Tool Kit, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, mulch, New Zealand, November, Repotting, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored, Tying in tomatoes
Sometimes you know you need something, but just can’t have it. So you try your best to make do and manage with what you can, but once you get your hands on something of quality then nothing else will do…
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Tags: Fiber Earth, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, Lucerne Mulch, mulch, New Zealand, November, Product review, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, Straw
As we say here in New Zealand everything is Sweet As, which means its pretty good. Earlier this week I made a video and the garden was in such a lovely place – the grass was low, the weeds were…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Drying out, flooding, GARDENING, garlic, Growing Vegetables, growing wheat, Late Autumn, May, mulch, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sweet peas, you tube
My strawberries, historically have had a bit of a rough ride. I would just take the goods until they slowed down and then would neglect them until it was time to start to think of them again. This was generally…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: GARDENING, Growing Strawberries, Growing Vegetables, growing wheat, Late spring, mulch, New Zealand, November, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, strawberries
Months ago back in the autumn I wasn’t thinking. I definitely wasn’t thinking of the convenience of my spring self. And now my spring self is a little disappointed with my autumn self. You see I grow wheat each autumn,…
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Every year I mark in my calendar this day, having specially counted back from the harvest date so I know they will be perfect for harvesting on the right day and today my calendar popped up with a reminder: plant…
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I have come up with a novel way of sourcing mulch for my garden and I’m so excited! I have always been a bit flummoxed when it comes to mulch. I understand the importance of it – to keep weeds…
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