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Not wanting to go on about it, but the Pith Necrosis in my tomatoes (you can read about that >HERE<) has been on my mind. One of the things that made the conditions ideal for the disease was the soil…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, how much organic material, Improving the soil, Mid Autumn, Monday Message, new normal, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, Testing the soil, using mustard seeds to measure soil fertility
I have been rather busy lately. I am fortunate in that my workloads and deadlines haven’t changed and writing about gardening is just as popular as it ever was. So, I have been tucked away in my office or creating…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: April, Coastal gardening, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, harvesting pumpkins, Harvesting the last of summer, Mid Autumn, Monday Message, New Zealand, preparing pumpkins for storage, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, sweetcorn, watermelon
Although for many ways for me it still feels a little normal. Because I’m not a great extrovert and so staying at home and potting about in my garden is my favourite thing to do. So, I ordinarily I don’t…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Autumn, GARDENING, gardening through covid 19, Go home stay home, Growing Vegetables, Lockdown, March, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, Staying at home
I have a garden group visiting the garden today, probably the last for a while. But I do love having groups coming to visit, first and foremostly to share the garden love, as there is always the opportunity for it…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Autumn, End of season clean up, garden visit, GARDENING, Grow something new, Growing Vegetables, March, New Zealand, Panic tidying, Sarah the Gardener, Tidying the garden
You should always grow at least one thing you’ve never grown before. You never know – you might find a new LOVE. This season I’ve grown Lady Godiva pumpkin, grown for the seeds not the flesh. It is almost too…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, Early Autumn, GARDENING, Grow something new, Growing Vegetables, March, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
Make places in the garden to sit. How can you appreciate all you have achieved if you don’t stop and look every once in a while? I have loads of places to sit in my garden. My swing seat overlooking…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts
Tags: Admire you achievements, Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, Early Autumn, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, March, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Sit in the garden
I normally dither about at this time of year, not wanting summer to end and ignoring the need to get the cool season seeds started now before it is too late! Well not this season. The sooner summer is behind…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: autumn, Coastal gardening, deciding what to grow over the winter months, Early Autumn, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, March, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, sowing cool season crops, The friendly season
WELCOME TO AUTUMN. The mild season… hopefully : o) As much as winter has the expectation of a new growing season ahead, spring is full of hope and promise, summer produces the goods – which is wonderful, autumn is my…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, Early Autumn, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, March, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, The friendly season
I’m leaping for joy. Ordinarily this would be the last day of summer! Normally, on this day I would begin to bemoan the demise of the fair weathered season and get ready for all things all things autumn. However, this…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, cruel summer, end of summer, February, GARDENING, getting ready for autumn, Growing Vegetables, Late Summer, Leap Day, leap year, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
You may still need to water in the rain! It was nice to have some rain, but dig down to see how far it got into the soil… probably not far! The last decent rain we had was before Christmas,…
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Category: Bite sized blog posts, Uncategorized
Tags: Bite sized blog post, Coastal gardening, February, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Summer, Monday Message, New Zealand, Rain is good, Sarah the Gardener, water in the rain
