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 for over 30 [...]
In spite of the slow start to spring it’s been a great season for growing tomatoes and to ensure bumper crops again next season I’ve been setting aside some of the choicest tomatoes for seeds.
Tomato seeds are encased in a gelatinous type sac which prevents them from sprouting whilst inside the fruit therefore this needs [...]
Upon passing out my card I’m often greeted with the comment “I had some worms once but they all died”.
“Was it something I fed them?”
There may have been other reasons why the worms died but my intention here is to summarise their dietary likes and dislikes.
Tiger worms (Eisenia fetida) also known as compost worms, manure [...]
When I wrote to the NZ Gardener recently to make them aware of my bumper crop of tomatoes I certainly didn’t expect my letter to be made into a full page feature. You could say I almost “fell off my ladder” when the neighbour dropped by to show me their copy (details are on pages [...]
It was just 365 days ago that I wrote the first post for Just Add Worms, how time flies when you’re doing something that you enjoy. One year and 63 posts later, the blog and garden are both flourishing. The photo below shows the garden as it was back then.
This photo shows the garden as [...]
Its been about 14 weeks now since I planted my first tomatoes and at last, they are ripening in reasonable numbers. I picked the first of the tomatoes about 3 weeks ago but they didn’t compare to yesterday’s harvest. I’m tickled pink (as in Brandywine Pink) with the results so far, since these are just [...]
On my list of favourite things to grow pumpkins come in at number 2. If you hadn’t already guessed tomatoes take out the top spot.
My philosophy for growing pumpkins is a very simple one. Find a good sunny site, dig in a generous quantity of compost and “watch em grow”. A regular watering regime is [...]
Back in September of 2009 I made two bathtub worm farms as I needed to increase my stock of tiger worms. Sales of my worms farms via the “Garden Shop” and Trade Me were going extremely well, however the demand had created a major problem.
Simply put, not enough worms.
Most folk don’t want to purchase a [...]
Do you ever wonder where all the bees have gone? It’ s no easy task to find bees whereas not many years back they were everywhere plying their all important trade.
I can remember many an occasion when one of our children would come storming into the house hollering that they had trodden on a bee [...]
Now that the Christmas and New Year’s festivities are over I thought it time to see how my two trial tomatoes are progressing. Since my post of the 18th of December all the tomatoes excluding the one below have received another generous dose of worm juice however I’m now applying it with a watering can. [...]
