Stinging nettle is the food gardeners, best mate. Loaded to the brim with minerals and vitamins, at service to the plant kingdom entire, and you and I also – a little wilted nettle with a fried egg is a fine spring breakfast. Amazing at anytime in its cycle for foliar feeds, but when nettle is […]
Kath and Kim Hill Audio — RNZ Nov 2022
By | LastUpdated April 1, 2023
Kath Irvine: time for planting ahead of summer From Saturday Morning, 10:35 am on 5 November 2022. With summer just around the corner you might want to start thinking about planting new crops in your vegetable garden. Organic gardener Kath Irvine says now’s the best to plant things like squash, citrus and beans. She chats […]
Don’t Mow – Let It Grow!
By | LastUpdated November 1, 2022
Once the kids have gone and cricket games are no longer, you may wish to pause and ponder the usefulness of your lawn. If no compelling reason other than tidiness comes to mind, let me suggest you plant it up or let it go. Either way you’re adding to your homegrown mulch stash, improving the […]
Year Round Saladings
By | LastUpdated November 1, 2022
A year round supply of fresh picked salad greens is a must have! Sounds like a mission, but its not as hard as you think. With a few tricks, we can make each planting last a goodly long time. This is the key – the longer we stretch the harvest, the less work for the […]
October in the Greenhouse
By | LastUpdated September 27, 2024
There’s a gradual take over happening in the October greenhouse as new crops of tomatoes, peppers, aubergines, courgette, cucumber dwarf beans + basil are planted out amongst finishing winter salads, bok choy, spinach + celery. Get a living mulch on the go Companion plants to draw predatory wasps, hoverflies and bees, are important in the […]
How to Prune Passionfruit
By | LastUpdated October 3, 2022
Passionfruits, fruit on new seasons growth. Just like grapes. In both cases, an annual prune makes good sense. It cleans out the old, unproductive wood, keeping our fruiting plants open for light and airflow which is a two step that prevents sucking insects building large populations. Pruning stimulates shooting – and with the old, unproductive […]
