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It has been my intention this year to do a video tour update every month, but I was a bit slow getting the end of May video done. I put it down to the nasty lurgy I had in between…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Winter, garden tour, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, June, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready, You Tube video
Well actually, just my hands on deck. The deck in front of the sheds is wide and expansive and well worth every extra dollar it took from my meager budget. Although at the time it was a bit of a…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Blind daffodils, Cleaning up, Coastal gardening, Early Winter, GARDENING, June, Listen along, Making bucket pots, New Zealand, repotting bulbs, Sarah the Gardener, storing plants in pots, Towards being spring ready, tulips
I have spent a lot of time trying to put all my ducks in a row so I can stay on top of things this winter. Ordinarily winter is a time to wind down and ease up on the gardening,…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, Cover crops, Digging in cover crops, Early Winter, GARDENING, June, Listen along, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready, welcome to winter, Winter plans
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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There has been a major spanner in my #MakeMayCount works. We have had horrible weather. Now I’m not adverse to a bit of bad weather but to work in this would be madness. It has been 3 days of super…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, GARDENING, home made soup, Late Autumn, Making soap, May, New Zealand, rescuing succulents, Sarah the Gardener, waiting for the weather to improve, windy weather
Last week disappeared in a complete blur. There was lots of the usual hoeing and rock building but that’s kind of becoming a bit boring – well not boring to do but boring to talk about. The weather has thrown…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: #MakeMayCount, aphids, building a rock, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, lawn repair, May, New Zealand, peanuts, Sarah the Gardener
To be honest I think the brick saga has had more of an impact on my #MakeMayCount timeline. Up until the bricks entered my world, I was making great progress, but collecting them was a huge effort and then they…
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: #MakeMayCount, autumn seedlings, bricks, Coastal gardening, cuttings, GARDENING, Growing onions, Growing Vegetables, iris bulbs, Late Autumn, May, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener
I set off into the #MakeMayCount with a whiz and a bang with a superhero mentality of all things are possible. In my head I can see each of the projects I want to achieve broken down into individual chores…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: #MakeMayCount, building a rock, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Good Nature Rat Trap, Growing flowers, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, May, New Zealand, not overdoing things, Sarah the Gardener, spring bulbs
During #MakeMayCount, I need to embrace activities that happen beyond the garden and value them as productive time. Yesterday I spent several hours in the morning doing some computer gardening but found myself getting frustrated at being indoors because I…
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, garden routines, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Inkweed, Late Autumn, May, New Zealand, Rats, rock making, Sarah the Gardener, weeding
