Whilst maintaining our vegetable garden over winter I often felt that it had grown much too big but now that spring is upon us its a very different story. The last time I paced out the fence line it equated to about 130 square metres and is more than double what is was in February [...]
Last winter our veggie garden became rather wet and claggy so this year I decided to spread a layer of mulch over it to help free up the soil and make it easier to maintain. I should have done this several months ago to give it more time to break down over the winter but [...]
Little did I know how this garden blog would evolve as I struggled to find words for the first post on that sunny February morning back in 2009. At the time I really didn’t know where to start. The intention was to keep a record of my garden and to make it available for anyone [...]
The tomatoes are finally finished and sadly its time to dig out the vines, pull up and store the stakes and wheel barrow the vines ragged remains to the tree prunings heap at the rear of our property. As much as I don’t relish the approach of winter it does give me time to relax [...]
Every year about this time people ask these questions of me, “Rodney why do you grow so many tomatoes and how do you achieve such great results … what are you going to do with them all ?” I must admit that sometimes I ask myself the same questions especially when its time to stake, [...]
Its been a few weeks now since I last blogged about the status of my garden as I’ve just been so busy. Between waiting for the weather to improve, getting the seeds sown, working over the soil and making up orders for Just Add Worms there hasn’t been much time left to tinker the old [...]
Daylight saving started last Sunday so now I have an extra hour at the end of each day to get our vegetable garden knocked into shape. The winter has been long and very wet but I’m hoping that’s all behind us now. In spite of the fact that the ground is still rather wet I [...]
Weekend Gardener Magazine – Issue 298 ( Sept 9th – 22nd) Click on image below for larger version. I enjoy growing as much as I can from seed plus it’s much cheaper than buying seedlings. Now that spring is finally here it’s time to plan the veggie patch and figure out where everything is going [...]
It’s amazing to think that soon all those northern hemisphere gardeners will have to bid spring and summer farewell as it will be the turn of gardeners down under to savour their magic. Just a few weeks away and already I’m feeling a little under pressure as I have so much planned for this growing [...]
On my list of favourite things to grow pumpkins are well up there and come in a very close second to my all time favourite, yes you guessed right, tomatoes. This past season I grew four different varieties: Whangaparaoa Crown (Weighed in average 3.6 kg) I’ve been growing this grey skinned variety off and on [...]
