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Sometimes you get an idea or see something on the great big internet and something compels you to give it ago. Sometimes this is a good idea and other times it is a case of never mention it again. I…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, concrete beach balls, digging out kikuyu roots, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Make May Count, Making garden art, May, New Zealand, Painting the wall, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe
Sometimes Making May Count means I’m so busy Making May Count that at the end of the day I collapse exhausted into a comfy chair and remain there until I recharge enough to get up and send myself to bed….
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Tags: boiled peanuts, Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, New Zealand, Painting the wall, Rainbow Gardens, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe
Use the things you saved for a rainy day, on a rainy day. Today is a rainy day. I am in danger of being trapped in my office this evening because I don’t want to get wet and it is…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, foggy garden, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, look on the bright side, Make May Count, May, Monday Message, New Zealand, Raining, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe
I have been busy again in and around the garden in the last few days. I have been tackling those beach balls as promised but with mixed results. I still haven’t finished yet, so I’ll save the big reveal for…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, soil sieve, stay safe, Virtual Chelsea Flower Show
Picking up from where we left off yesterday >You can catch up here< I am sharing my adventures in making the most of the peppers and chillies I have grown this season. No longer are they all just allowed to…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Jwala, Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, Mulato, New Zealand, Padron, Pakrika, Pepperoni, Peppers and chillies, Sarah the Gardener, Smoked chilli powder, stay safe
In my garden my pepper bed has space for 18 pepper plants. I normally pop in half a dozen bell peppers so I can have a good supply to freeze to use over the winter months as we use them…
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Tags: Cayenne, Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Habanada, Habanero, Hungarian Wax, jalapeno, Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, New Zealand, Peppers and chillies, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, Yellow banana pepper
I can hardly believe the garden is 2 years old today. On this day in 2018 the shipping container company came and took away the container that had held all our worldly possessions. The caravan that we had lived in…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden birthday, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Level 2, Make May Count, May, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe
Today marks the start of yet another new normal, and just when I was getting used to the last one. The kids headed off to school. The house is decidedly quiet, and Jasper the Dog is patiently awaiting their return…
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Tags: Autumn sunflowers, Coastal gardening, drought, Entertaining family and friends, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Level 2, Make May Count, May, Monday Message, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe
I need to remind myself that while I’m attempting to Make May Count, I shouldn’t overdo it. I’m not superwoman, I am a mild mannered gardener with an annoying side kick called MS. It’s just that I get a little…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Lemon verbena, Level 2, Make May Count, May, MS, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, Strawberry popcorn
I may have lied at the start of the Make May Count project. Well maybe not lie exactly, just stretched the truth when I said, “the garden is looking tidy and in control”. I had dark areas of shame. Mostly…
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Tags: Coastal gardening, compost, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, lime tree, Make May Count, May, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, strawberries, weeding
