After last year’s seed order postal debacle, I decided to plan the garden earlier this year, and get my seeds ordered in good time, just in case. Having said that, The Palace project has held me up a little bit,…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, July, Mid Winter, New Zealand, Ordering seeds, Rock building, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready, Vegetable garden planning
… And hunkering down when it’s not. It has been a difficult week. There were days when the sun shone down on us like it was spring and days that felt like winter was making us pay for some unknown…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: bad weather, Coastal gardening, Cover crops, GARDENING, good weather, Growing Vegetables, July, Mid Winter, New Zealand, Rock building, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready
This week couldn’t have been more contrasting if it tried. The first 3 days was constant rain, high winds with frequent gusts up to or at 150 km/h, hail coming in sideways and fast, and some thunder and lightning thrown…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: bad weather, Clearing asparagus, Coastal gardening, Cover crops, GARDENING, good weather, Growing Vegetables, July, Mid Winter, New season, New Zealand, Rock building, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready, yams
You may be wondering where I was over the last week. Certainly not in the garden. I have been nursing a bog-standard ordinary head cold. So, the last week after all that effort of trying to #MakeMayCount came to nothing…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: #MakeMayCount, Coastal gardening, Early Winter, GARDENING, June, Listen along, New Zealand, Rock building, Sarah the Gardener, welcome to winter, Winter plans
As I have sunken my teeth into a large project, with a couple of minor projects on the go, a few projects I’m champing at the bit to start, and a veggie garden that is largely under control as it…
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