November in the Veggie Patch, How to grow Passionfruit + Tricky Weeds

For the very best soil health and all round abundance, focus on facilitating the web of life in your garden soil. It's as simple as simple could be, an equation of 3: diverse living mulches + compost + vermicastings, and perhaps a 4th... a little liquid feed now and then. That's all!

Health does not come in a plastic bag, no matter what promises the label makes, it comes from the vast, network of living things... trees, plants, birds, insects, fungi, bacteria et all.

When you stop piling bought stuff on i.e. over feeding, and start growing diverse, living mulches, the pest and disease dramas fade away, your garden stands up to all the up-and-downs of weather, and caring for it becomes heaps easier, and way more fun!

Will it be dry? Will it be wet? Will it be cold? Will it be windy? These things we cannot control, but "Will our gardens be healthy + strong?"... that we can do!

Yours in the earth,
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November in the Vegie Patch + Greenhouse

Focus on getting long-term summer crops in the ground, kumara, pumpkin, yams - get on it!

Edible Backyard NZKath Irvine

November Fruit Tree To-Do List

Exciting times as we watch young fruits + new wood develop. Thinning fruits and planting citrus are key jobs this month.

Edible Backyard NZKath Irvine

How to grow Passionfruit

Black passionfruit (passiflora edulis) are the prima-donnas of the fruit bowl. The trick to side stepping all the drama, is to create the ideal environment before planting - take the time!

Edible Backyard NZKath Irvine

Weed Smarter Not Harder #3: Tricky Weeds

Tricky weeds are tricky because of their scale and vigour. Moving them on means being more cunning + persistent than they are!

Edible Backyard NZKath Irvine

Fruit trees: Bountiful & Healthy

Join Kath Irvine and Bena Denton on shaping productive fruit trees and building healthy orchard soil.

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