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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
You can always tell it is a good time to harvest your sweetcorn when you notice the rats are getting into it! I have a bit of a rat problem, but I am currently deliberately feeding them with goat food,…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Corn ear worm, cruel summer, February, GARDENING, Growing corn, Growing Vegetables, Harvesting sweetcorn, How to know when to harvest corn, Late Summer, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, storm damage, sweetcorn, treating corn ear worm
As exciting as 2018 was, I’m not all that keen to repeat it. I think you should probably limit the number of dramatic upheavals in a lifetime. Now we have found this beautiful spot and put in all this hard…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: December, Early Summer, GARDENING, growing different corn varieties, Growing Vegetables, irrigation, New Zealand, onions, popcorn, Sarah the Gardener, sweetcorn, Training melons
I tend to be a bit of a creature of habit and once I’m on to a good thing, then I don’t tend to change much and the beds that form the rest of sector one are of the ilk…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: cucumbers, garden planning, GARDENING, gherkins, Growing Vegetables, July, Leafy greens, midwinter, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sweetcorn
Finally, the weather blessed us with a fabulous weekend. It was hot, blue sky amazing and perfect for time in the garden. You could almost see the plants breathing a sigh of relief as they stretched out their leaves to…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: February, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, How to deal with end of season strawberries, How to know when corn is ready, Late Summer, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, strawberries, sweetcorn, tomatoes, you tube
I’m quite pleased with my routine schedule for the garden. In the past, I’d wander around aimlessly until I found a chore that needed doing, couldn’t be ignored anymore or was really easy and there was no real focus. The…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: garden organisation, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, New Zealand, November, onions, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sweetcorn, tomatoes
Sometimes it is a good idea to look back in time to see how things were at the same period years ago. It is interesting to see four years ago some things were very much the same yet others were…
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According to the calendar we are in the middle of summer. I have mixed emotions about this as if half of summer has just gone, then we have been ripped off big time because the weather has been completely rubbish. …
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