Before you buy fruit trees, make a super useful harvest calendar for a clear overview of the fruiting year. A big help in choosing varieties that stagger the harvest and spread workload. Before we map it out – lets double check you’re ready to go. Tick off the following steps and set yourself on the […]
Step by Step to Kickass Shelter
By | LastUpdated September 1, 2021
Shelter lays the foundation for a thriving food garden. What a difference to productivity when our crops are nicely tucked away! Today, I’m going to set you on the road to a handsome as, targetted and super low-maintenance shelter that once established, needs no pruning/ trimming/ fussing over. Kickass, don’t you agree? You only need […]
Spring Feed for Deciduous Fruit Trees, Citrus, Passionfruits + Strawberries
By | LastUpdated November 2, 2023
The orchard is waking up. Hurrah! blossom will soon be here. The trees sleep is over, and so is the gardeners – it’s time to get on the job! Make it a habit to wander your trees regularly – better than any fertiliser is this friendship that happens, when you spend time with your trees. […]
How To Prune Redcurrants And Blackcurrants
By | LastUpdated August 1, 2021
Pruning currants makes the wickedest difference to the amount and quality of fruit because the fruits come on young wood. Left unpruned, the harvests become increasingly pathetic – too much old unproductive wood! An annual winter prune and a spring feed will inspire the new wood to come through, netting yourself a haul of about […]
Managing Foodscraps: Easy Bokashi
By | LastUpdated May 20, 2022
This story begins on a sad note – Nellie, our beautiful kunekune pig, she in charge of foodscrap management, died. See you on the other side, my friend. As well as companionship (pigs are the best), she played an important part in the health of the garden – converting foodscraps into manure. A job she […]
How To Prune A Grape
By | LastUpdated September 29, 2022
Grapes fruit on new season wood. Prune your grapes every year and avoid a heavy, tangle of shoots. Grapevines have a tonne of vigour and left to their own devices take over the garden, next stop the world. The good news is grapes can handle a hard prune! So if yours has left its trellis […]
