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Things are racing ahead now, just like the year is. How have we reached May so quickly? It doesn’t seem that long ago we were just embarking on this hair brained scheme. But it can’t have been that hair brained. …
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Early garlic, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, House moving, Late Autumn, May, Moving a house, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, you tube
I don’t know about you but I needed a break from all that heavy sciency stuff. You should see what I have been looking into for us next! I do have to say it has been a great distraction from…
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Category: COOKING, Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Early Autumn, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, how to make sweet chilli sauce, March, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, sweet chilli sauce, you tube
After 87 days from idea to realisation, we are now all moved and settled in to our new place. Well not quite settled in. We are living in a caravan with all our worldly possessions scattered about the place waiting…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: garden plans, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, JANUARY, Midsummer, Moving house, New garden, New Zealand, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, you tube
Everything is changing, but for now it stays the same. It is a really weird time where we know what we want but have absolutely no control over it. All it takes is one person to buy the house. We’ve…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Harvesting onions, Late spring, New Zealand, November, Orchard tour, Picking elderflowers, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, Transplanting peppers, you tube
I think this is as close as I will get to a Did…Dah… moment. There are still a few empty beds, but I’m working on it. The grass is cut, most of the plants are in, it hasn’t rained in…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Dry weather, garden tour, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Late spring, New Zealand, November, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, you tube
Sometimes things don’t go according to plan – especially when there isn’t a plan but a vague idea in your head. Ummm yeah…. Occasionally my ‘she’ll be right – sweet as’ attitude doesn’t go so right and isn’t so sweet. …
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Cucumber trellis, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Labour Weekend, Last frost date, mid spring, New Zealand, October, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, Trying to build trellis with sheep fencing, when things go horribly wrong, you tube
Here we are in the middle of the best weekend of all time – Labour Weekend. Saturday was OK weather wise – a bit blowy, but the boffins are telling us the rest of the weekend will be soggy! How…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Building tomato trellis, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, Labour Weekend, Last frost date, mid spring, New Zealand, October, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, tomato, Tomato frame, trellis, you tube
The sun has been shining all week and I’ve been doing some great gardening. Mostly weeding, but I have even managed to do some planting. My poor peas, sown in good faith ages ago have been sitting and waiting for…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Bird scarer, cloche, deterring birds, Early Spring, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, New Zealand, planting peas, row cloche, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, September, sowing peas, you tube
We had another storm blow through overnight. This year is really becoming a huge lesson in patience. As much as I want to get on and dig the garden I continue to wait. I have done pretty much all…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: A year in review, Early Spring, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, New Zealand, Passing seasons, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, September, Starting the Growing season., you tube
You have to admit a vast expanse of well-maintained lawn in middle of summer with the fresh cut aroma invoking some kind of childhood memory where you would roll down hills, do handstands and lie on your back looking for…
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Category: Uncategorized, VIDEO
Tags: Early Spring, Gardena, Gardena Robotic Lawnmower, GARDENING, Growing Vegetables, How to install a robotic lawnmower, Mowing the lawn, New Zealand, Robotic Lawnmower, Sarah O'Neil, Sarah the Gardener, September, sponsored, you tube