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It is all go in the garden and we approach the summer. Most of my seeds have been sown and there are some that still need to be done. I’ve tried to stick with the plan, so I have all…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Early Spring, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Monarch Butterfly, National Gardening Week, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, September, sowing swan plants, sponsored, Yates, you tube
Finally, the weather turned to ‘not rainy’ and my schedule cleared up and I could go tree shopping. Only I’ve left it a little late. I knew I had but didn’t realise just how late as all the good stuff…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: apples, August, blueberries, Comfort Bypass Secateurs, fruit trees, Gardena, GARDENING, Getting spring ready, Growing fruit, Late Winter, New garden, New Zealand, orchard, Plums, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored
We are firmly on the down hill run to spring and the final weeks of winter are imminent. Ordinarily this fills me with excitement and a large portion of my being is jumping with joy. The rest of me really…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Boxthorn, Chopping down boxthorn, Gardena, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, July, midwinter, New Zealand, Orchard preparation, pruning, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored, Tree and Shrub Lopper StarCut 160 plus
Currently, in my gardenless state, any opportunity to get up close and personal with any kind of gardening and I’m in. Even a rain soaked autumnal day won’t dampen my enthusiasm, so when I was invited to help pick apples…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Apple press, apples, Early Autumn, Gardena, Gardena Fruit Collector, Gardena Fruit Picker, GARDENING, Making cider, March, New Zealand, Picking apples, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored
We have survived our first month living in a caravan with just a handful of weeks left before the house arrives. We seem to be in a lull in the busyness that has been swirling around us in the last…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Comfort Bed Sprayer, Container gardening, February, Gardena, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Summer, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, seaside garden, sponsored, watering
It is fair to say the process of selling a house isn’t a simple process. Pop a holiday season in the middle of it all and it can really be challenging. The first step of getting the house ready for…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: controlling the garden, Gardena, Gardena Robotic Lawnmower, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Midsummer, Moving house, mowing lawns, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored
Historically I have been absolutely terrible with keeping plants in pots and containers. There is so much pleasure and joy found tending the garden that I seem to run out of time for the small pot bound plants, not as…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: asparagus, December, Early Summer, Gardena, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, New Zealand, Preparing plants to move house, sponsored, strawberries, Terrace Hose Box, Watering plants in pots
With less than a week left of spring, it is pretty much safe to say the garden is all but done. There are a few bits and pieces left to do, like sort out the flowers – but they don’t…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: All planted out, Cleaning the greenhouse, Gardena, GARDENING, Gardening Tool Kit, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, mulch, New Zealand, November, Repotting, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored, Tying in tomatoes
Since I have had my wonderful new irrigation system installed in my garden, late last year > you can read about it here <, I have had the pleasure and privilege of using it in a full weekly cycle a…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Gardena, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, mid spring, Neta Irrigation, New Zealand, October, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sponsored, starting up irrigation in the spring
Finally, the rain has stopped for long enough for the soil to dry out enough to begin the laborious task of digging and weeding. This is when I regret having such a large garden, but this feeling soon passes as…
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Tags: Early Spring, Gardena, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, how to weed, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, September, sponsored, weeding, weeding the garden, Weeding trowel, weeds