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 as single leaders, as per tomatoes, makes for an easy life – easy to pick, to spot pests, and to support, but best of all […]
Easy Peasy Compost
By | LastUpdated March 28, 2024
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 in pests and disease is quite something. Homemade looks and smells nothing like bought – it really is far superior. And though it sounds like […]
How to Prune Tomatoes, Peppers + Aubergines
By | LastUpdated December 1, 2023
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 rainfall not reliably hot climate – plenty of airflow and sun for best health + ripening. A single leader best suits tomatoes grown up strings […]
December in the Vegie Patch, How to Grow Tomatoes + An Epic Giveaway!
By | LastUpdated December 4, 2023
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 cool prize. 7 gifts in all, contributed by 7 epic organic kiwi women. Bonne chance! Yours in the earth,❤️ Kath
EPIC Giveaway!
By | LastUpdated December 4, 2023
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 onto instagram, and enter at @everkindorganic. The winner will be drawn on 4 Dec. A $50 voucher for plants from @kahikateafarm. Kahikatea Farm is a […]
Easy-as Alternatives to Weed Spray
By | LastUpdated November 6, 2023
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 places on earth. Find my ideas for the really tricky weeds, at the bottom of the page. Today I’m sharing my top 4 weed management […]
