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I have a really exciting opportunity coming up that will take me away from the garden for 20 days from the end of the month. It is garden related so there will be more on that later. But in order…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: celeriac, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, mid spring, New Zealand, October, Running out of time, seedlings, Spring preparations, Transplanting seedlings
The drop to level three couldn’t have come sooner. Not only for the health and wellbeing of all the kiwis who have put in the hard yards to get us to this point, but also, I was beginning to get…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Spring, finding a balance, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, How to transplant seedlings, Lockdown, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, September, Transplanting seedlings
For the last wee while I have been Big Picture Thinking, with my drive to get spring ready. But now we are in spring and as the garden wakes from its winter dormancy I’m finding things are moving fast. There…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Spring, finding a balance, GARDENING, getting stuff done, Growing Vegetables, Lockdown, New Zealand, planting plants, Sarah the Gardener, September, sowing seeds, Transplanting seedlings, weeding
Except it is for me… I need it. But here in lockdown level 4 the local shops aren’t selling it. All I can hope is we nip this thing in the bud – and all signs show we can, and…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Spring, Father's day, finding a balance, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Lockdown, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, September, sowing seeds, The big to-do list, Transplanting seedlings
How on earth did we get this far through the year already? I have been waking up, working hard, and going back to bed again and each day drags us along in time… I can barely keep up. If the…
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It was quite an ordinary spring day. The wind (and Fennel the Cat – she has a very loud meow and wasn’t happy the food she had been served for dinner and let me know about it at 3am) disturbed…
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There is nothing like trying circumstances to make things happen. And as if the situation we find ourselves in right now isn’t trying enough, the step down to level 3 has meant the power company has gone back to work. …
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Coastal gardening, Finding Motivation, garden through the troubled times, GARDENING, greenhouse, Growing Vegetables, Late Autumn, Make May Count, May, New Zealand, No electricity, Sarah the Gardener, stay safe, Transplanting seedlings
Well except the cold, the wind, the rain, non-gardening work and feelings of fatigue after doing too much in a time of pleasant conditions. I’m beginning to think I’m getting a bit soft. I have memories of seasons years ago…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Changeable spring weather, Coastal gardening, Early Spring, Garden preparation, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Harvesting brassica, New Zealand, planting peas, Sarah the Gardener, September, Transplanting seedlings, Trying to get stuff done
I wonder if you know how it feels… You make grand plans for something and completely over estimate your capabilities. But through sheer tenacity manage to make some kind of dent what needs to be done. I feel a little…
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It is always the way – you just get to sink your teeth into an exciting project and something comes along and throws a spanner in the works. We had a productive couple of days with the bulldozer sorting out…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: Comfort Hand Trowel, Gardena, GARDENING, Gardening indoors, Growing Vegetables, kitchen gardening, Late Autumn, May, New garden, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, stormy weather, Transplanting seedlings