Listen in Kath and Kim Hill RNZ Audio: On Apple picking and Autumn

Kath Irvine: apple picking and autumn in the garden From Saturday Morning, 11:35 am on 19 March 2022  Organic gardener Kath Irvine returns to share some autumn gardening tips and to answer your questions. This is a time in the garden for both harvesting and preparing for winter. Kath shares some advice on apple picking and storing, and planting […]

February in the Vegie Patch, Simple Soil Revivers + Summer Pruning

In a perfect world, our soils don’t end up hungry and tired at the end of summer, but often they are. Hey, it happens – life happens! So this month I have simple solutions to get you back into production. Regularly checking in with your soils is the difference, make this your new, best habit. […]

January in the Vegie Patch, Keep Soil Health High + How to Grow Basil

If you can keep your soil in good heart through summer, your autumn garden is going to be a much easier ride by far. Soil that dries out and looses its mojo is a big mission to repair – do your best to avoid it. Steady moisture and steady soil health is the foundation from […]

December in the Vegie Patch, How to Water + Hot Tomato Tips

Hello summer! Balmy nights and longer days means gardens go up a gear – plants, seeds, weeds, pests, the good and bad – everything zooms along. Keep up in the easiest and most pleasurable of ways with little and often bursts of attention. Little and often makes your summer garden (and your life), better. If […]