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Ok, it is Tuesday, and I may have started without you, but I think I have formulated a vague plan for the week to get ahead and become spring ready. According to my countdown to spring giveaway over on my…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: August, Building windbreak, Coastal gardening, Cover crops, finding a balance, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, Lockdown, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, The big to-do list, Towards being spring ready
After months and months of a relatively normal existence, we find ourselves once again in lockdown. I trust that our country is doing the right thing to keep us safe as Delta attempts to darken our door. In the meantime,…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: August, Building windbreak, Cleaning the greenhouse, Coastal gardening, Countdown to spring giveaway, Cover crops, finding a balance, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, Lockdown, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Spring cleaning, The big to-do list, Towards being spring ready
And it certainly isn’t waiting for this gardener! I have been in and out of the garden this week, but I can say without a shadow of doubt, I’m not progressing with my spring preparations as quickly as I’d like. …
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: August, Building windbreak, Cleaning the greenhouse, Coastal gardening, Cover crops, finding a balance, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Spring cleaning, The big to-do list, Towards being spring ready
I hate it when a week disappears out from under me, doesn’t it know I have plans. Some of the week was spent not gardening because the weather was awful – we had a huge storm – right in off…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: August, Coastal gardening, finding a balance, GARDENING, gathering supplies, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, storm damage, stormy weather, Towards being spring ready
Having completely missed my June garden video tour due to the work on The Palace, as well as ordinary gardening things, I decided I should make the effort for an end of July garden video tour. I was aiming for…
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Category: GARDENING, VIDEO
Tags: August, Coastal gardening, finding a balance, garden tour, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late Winter, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready, you tube
Making the decision to ease back on The Palace which was taking all my time and energy at the expense of all the other spring preparation tasks has been a little liberating. It allows me to assess the rest of…
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Category: GARDENING, Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, finding a balance, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, July, Mid Winter, New Zealand, Pruning autumn raspberries, Pruning summer raspberries, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready
I have been doing a bit of reflecting this week and decided I need a bit of balance in my life. I have been bursting a fufu valve trying to get the first garden in The Palace completed by the…
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After last year’s seed order postal debacle, I decided to plan the garden earlier this year, and get my seeds ordered in good time, just in case. Having said that, The Palace project has held me up a little bit,…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, July, Mid Winter, New Zealand, Ordering seeds, Rock building, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready, Vegetable garden planning
Last week was pretty much a bust as far as being productive in the garden. I got in an hour in total, prepping one bed for the spring, and I’m glad I did that, as I was toying with the…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Breaking irrigation, Coastal gardening, Fixing irrigation, GARDENING, Good Nature Rat Trap, Growing Vegetables, July, Mid Winter, New Zealand, Rats, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready
… And hunkering down when it’s not. It has been a difficult week. There were days when the sun shone down on us like it was spring and days that felt like winter was making us pay for some unknown…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: bad weather, Coastal gardening, Cover crops, GARDENING, good weather, Growing Vegetables, July, Mid Winter, New Zealand, Rock building, Sarah the Gardener, Towards being spring ready