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Well the storm didn’t eventuate, not on the scale the boffins were suggesting. Well not here anyway. So, it would seem I battened down the hatches for no real reason. But it still wasn’t great weather for most of the…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing onions, Growing Vegetables, Harvesting onions, Late spring, New Zealand, November, onions, Sarah the Gardener, storing onions
Finally I have reached that sweet spot in the garden when everything is planted out and the harvest isn’t quite there yet. The lull allows me to catch my breath and recover from the frenzied chaos getting all the work…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: Between the planting and the harvest, garden tour, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, New Zealand, November, onions, planting out, Sarah the Gardener, strawberries, tomatoes, you tube
‘… with pretty things all in a row…’ Well maybe not all in a row, but there are a lot of pretty cool things in the garden right now. Check them out: Come again soon – it feels like…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, GARDENING, growing salad, Growing Vegetables, mid spring, New Zealand, October, onions, peas, potatoes, Sarah the Gardener, spring
Up until now the garden hasn’t exactly brought me a lot of joy this season, more a sense of overwhelming, never ending impossibilities. It has been a huge struggle to negotiate the storms and troubles, and shout down the thoughts…
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I spent the weekend with a nagging feeling in the back of my mind…. ‘I need to sort out this crop rotation cover crop thing. Once it is done, I’ll never have to think of it again.’ But there were…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: brassicas, Cool season gardening, Cover crops, crop rotation, February, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Summer, New Zealand, onions, Sarah the Gardener, tomatoes
I am back in the garden again. It isn’t like I didn’t go anywhere, but over the Christmas and New Year break, I took a holiday of sorts. We have such a beautiful spot here by the ocean, so we…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Back in routine, GARDENING, gladioli, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Midsummer, New Zealand, onions, Sarah the Gardener, shelling peas, Tomato Potato psyllid
As exciting as 2018 was, I’m not all that keen to repeat it. I think you should probably limit the number of dramatic upheavals in a lifetime. Now we have found this beautiful spot and put in all this hard…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: December, Early Summer, GARDENING, growing different corn varieties, Growing Vegetables, irrigation, New Zealand, onions, popcorn, Sarah the Gardener, sweetcorn, Training melons
A spoonful at a time! While most of the garden is still very new and either recently planted or still to be planted, there are some crops that have been in for ages. The onion and the garlic were the…
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Category: COOKING, Uncategorized
Tags: Eating elephant garlic flowers, elephant garlic, Elephant garlic scapes, GARDENING, garlic, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, New Zealand, November, onions, Sarah the Gardener
These days I tend to fall into the bed at the end of the day exhausted. I have been working hard. The spring has not been kind to me, but together we fall in to rhythm that seems to work…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: berries, edible garden, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, New Zealand, November, onions, rhythm of nature, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener
I have to say it is taking all my inner strength not to load post after post complaining about the weather. So, I have been looking for the bright side. Finding up beat and exciting things to share. Doing things…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: chickens in the garden, Christmas potatoes, Early Spring, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, New Zealand, onions, Pukeko, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, September, Sodden, Tomato seedlings, too much rain