I have two pairs of these Red Band gumboots (they’re bit of a Kiwi icon) but recently these ones started to let in water so it appeared that their use by date was up. Normally they would have gone into the rubbish but this year I’ve decided to grow more herbs so “these boots” have [...]
Most mornings after breakfast I take a casual stroll around our property to see what’s new and to ensure all is in order. So that I don’t get distracted the camera remains on my office desk but sometimes it’s a hurried return to the house to fetch it. Drat, why didn’t I bring the camera? [...]
Celebrations are the order of the day as I’ve spotted a Tui feeding from the prototype liquid bird feeder I made several months back. Actually to keep the record straight I didn’t notice the Tui feeding until Steve from Eden Garden Care pointed it out to me. At the time he and his wife Suzanne [...]
The weather forecasters were slightly adrift with their predictions however there wasn’t enough rain over the weekend to stop me from completing my strawberry tower. Yes I know it’s an unexciting name but it will suffice until I conjure up something a little more glamorous. By now my neighbours must be thinking either a UFO [...]
This post is a continuation to that of April 30th when I declared my intention to build a vertical growing frame, tower, call it what you will for my first attempt at growing strawberries. Assuming all goes according to plan launch date will be about 4 months hence. Spring can’t come soon enough! The current [...]
This may sound like an unusual topic to write about for a blog (no I don’t mean bog) about vegetable gardening. There are five adults in our house and hardly a week goes by without Rose asking the above question, bless her sweet heart! Three of these are of the male variety so that narrows [...]
Starting a new garden can be exciting but it pays to keep at least one foot in the top soil otherwise you may bite off more than you can comfortably cultivate. This may sound a bit rich bearing in mind I’ve just finished turning over an additional 30 square meters out the back. Combined the [...]
