New Year Update
It's been a real up and down first month of summer here in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. We've had downpours of rain turning our gardens into...
The garden is in bloom.
You only have to blink at this time of year and the garden can get away from you. By which I mean that the weeds suddenly.....almost over...
Springtime again!
Leo Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenina “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” And how very true that is. I am well behind on some of the...
Garden update - winter is here.
It's the 1st of June, therefore the end of Autumn and the beginning of winter, and don't we know it! This last couple of weeks have been...
Our relationship with the earth/soil....and Corporate greed.
Oh where to start on this one? From when the first human had the idea of planting seed in the earth to produce food we have been trying...
Autumn brings changes...
As I write this blog post, we are about to step into the final month of Autumn (or Fall for those in the USA) and Winter is just around...
Making the most of our produce
February already - the last month of summer and the garden is booming and blooming. We've had a lot of meals based around zucchini and...
Rainwater collection...finally
It's been a long time between blog posts, but then again during the winter there's not a lot happening in the garden. Spring, however is...
Pickles, chutney and tea
As mentioned in an earlier post, we have been making pickles and relish/chutney from our glut of lemon cucumbers (many thanks to our...
We reap what we sow....sometimes....gardening update.
It's been a while since my last blog post. My apologies for that. We are now almost at the end of the month of April, in the latter part...
