Hints & Tips
Hedge fun
Posted 9 months, 9 days agoHedges are versatile, beautiful, sustainable, fashionable..and a big investment. Do you want edible, native or evergreen? Tall or short?[img82]In this photo we're planting a hedge of totara (Podocarpus totara). Totara is slower to establish and a little prickly, but makes a nice thick hedge and depe......
Don't make me sick
Posted 10 months, 28 days agoSpot, rot, rust and mould…if you had brown peaches or rusty celery this summer, you wouldn't be the only one.[img80] ...
A Seat at the Table
Posted 1 year, 2 months agoPlanting a successful summer vege garden takes a bit of forward thinking. Similar I imagine, to planning an important dinner party. Who grows well together? Which one needs support? And what about that character who tends to smother its neighbours? Not to mention dietary considerations....
Enough for Everyone
Posted 1 year, 3 months agoIt’s easy to grow your own kumara tipu for planting out in November: choose an unblemished, healthy tuber and nestle it into a pot or box filled with damp sand, woodchips or sawdust. Keep the pot somewhere warm, like the laundry cupboard, to stimulate the ‘eyes’ to sprout....
