When you live somewhere as extreme as we do, here on the wild west coast, there is nothing like experience to teach you what you need to know. More often than not, it comes after you complete a project with…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, Coastal Native plants, GARDENING, July, Making a coastal windbreak, Mid Winter, New Zealand, Planted tough NZ Native plants, Repairing wind damage, Sarah the Gardener, windbreak
It has been a long and difficult couple of weeks outside of the garden. Sometimes life is like that but that makes the garden all the more of a sanctuary from all that worries you. Fortunately, there hasn’t been too…
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Category: GARDENING
Tags: Coastal gardening, Early Autumn, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Making the most of what you have, March, muehlenbeckia, New Zealand, protecting Rhubarb, Sarah the Gardener, weaving a wind break, Wind break, windbreak
Things haven’t been off to a great start. 2019 ended promising with the early discovery and treatment of the Tomato Potato Psyllid. Last year, due to the holidays I found it too late and I fought a brave and brutal…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: another storm, Australian bush fire smoke, Coastal gardening, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, ill health, JANUARY, Midsummer, New year's resolutions, New Zealand, Sarah the Gardener, sun smart, wellness, wind damage, windbreak