How to Prune Cucumbers + Melons

For best health, plus the joy of a small footprint, grow vining small fruit cucurbits (melons, cucumbers, small squash) up strings or frames rather than along the ground. Pruning them […]

Easy Peasy Compost

Homemade compost is the very best fertility for your vegie garden because its alive, minerally rich and stable. Your plants reflect this by growing steadily + strongly, and the reduction […]

How to Prune Tomatoes, Peppers + Aubergines

A single leader tomato is a very fine thing.  Easy to support. Easy to pick. Easy to spot pests. Easy to spray. But most important of all in my high […]

December in the Vegie Patch, How to Grow Tomatoes + An Epic Giveaway!

This month, along with all your vegie patch and fruit tree reminders, you have the chance to win this awesome collection of goodies – up for grabs as one very […]

EPIC Giveaway!

What an awesome giveaway! All these gifts are up for grabs as one very cool prize. 7 gifts in all, contributed by 7 epic organic kiwi women. To win, hop […]

Easy-as Alternatives to Weed Spray

Weeds are, on the whole, not that tricky. Sure there’s a select few that are dynamite, but that’s to be expected given that we live in one of the weediest […]