… with a few pops of colour thrown in for good measure.  It hasn’t been the easiest season so far, however if I stop focusing on what is making it a struggle and look at the big picture. Or take a closer look at the things that aren’t considered superstars of the summer garden, yet are there every year and faultlessly do their thing.  On … Continue reading This post is bought to you by the colour green…
This is the absolute best kind of weeding there is. After a period of sustained torrential rain the soil becomes so moist deep down that even the nastiest weed like dock weed slips right out of the ground with the entire tap root attached.  This is my bright side to a few days of horrible stormy weather. It was probably the worst storm we have … Continue reading Storm weeding
Here we are in the middle of the best weekend of all time – Labour Weekend. Saturday was OK weather wise – a bit blowy, but the boffins are telling us the rest of the weekend will be soggy! How is that supposed to make gardening fun?!  I’ll choose to ignore the boffins – they’ve been wrong before. It still isn’t all that warm out … Continue reading Constructing structures Part one
The efforts to restore the garden back to some semblance of order are coming along nicely. My hands are looking more like gardener hands and at the end of the day I feel the need for a soak in a hot bath to ease my weary muscles. All is as it should be. Check out what I’ve been up to: it is quite exciting. Come … Continue reading Burning with Fire.
My recent article in Bite, the fabulous foodie section of the NZ Herald came with a wonderful accompaniment, a collection of recipes to complement what is being harvested in my garden. Each one was a mouth-watering wonder and it only made sense to recreate each one for my dinner each night, using the very harvest that was the inspiration in the first place. First up I … Continue reading Reaping what has been sown.
At this time of year there is so much going on and it is all new and fresh. Â Many little things need a lot of care and attention and others are just part of the bigger picture. I love watching the wee ones unfurl and spring into life. And we can’t forget my onions… Â however this is only a small selection of what is going … Continue reading Watching over tiny things
In my absence summer picked up and left and autumn stepped in to take its place. At this point there is no noticeable difference, as it is still hot, hot, hot. The garden is still doing its thing and the wonderful Hubby the Un-Gardener did a grand job of keeping everything alive. He may even have been more diligent than me with the watering – … Continue reading How to make Yellow Tomato Paste
I can’t believe we have had … I struggle to find the words – sunny days is too overstated, but cloudy days hardly seems worth getting excited about. The wind is still there and it rains overnight – which is convenient. But it is still really quite cold and definitely not imminently pre-summer weather. I know: Hooray, we have had four gardenable days in a … Continue reading Four days in a row!
Brief:  share an image that creates a sense of mystery. This weekend I am at a Christmas Market, although I still feel it is way too early to be thinking about Christmas.  I’m a kinda two weeks before kind of girl.  Besides the weather is still terrible so you can’t possibly feel Christmassy in the cold and wet.  It has to be hot, sunny and possibly … Continue reading PHOTO DAY 10: Mystery
But I’m going to try and do 30 beds in 30 days! And the challenge started yesterday. I am sitting here with sore aching muscles. Initially I thought it was the foreign lurgy I brought home from our trip as a souvenir.  Then it occurred to me – this is what hard work feels like! I have been so crazy busy on other projects and … Continue reading Please don’t consider me promiscuous
