In the garden...

Watching our parents tending a large vegetable garden and seeing the results on the table for dinner is a dim memory for many people today. How about recreating those scenes on the balconies of our apartments or the patios of our townhouses?

Rose growing notes – May

May should be a relaxed time in the rose calendar. The odd spray to keep them clean of disease and cutting the odd bloom that may appear. Do not dead head the bushes now. Leave that to pruning time. If you dead head the plant will try to produce new buds and that energy is best stored in the bush to give it a start in the spring. …Read more

Reikorangi ramblings – dahlias in the garden

Yes, this is real . This dahlia from my garden is 20cm across.

Spring is the time to plant dahlia tubers, but of course they are flowering now and are marvelous for providing colour for the late summer/autumn garden. …Read more

Autumn tasks in the garden

A beautiful early autumn day is the perfect time for those trimming and harvesting jobs.

The chooks have been helping me to harvest my self-seeded Maori potatoes, dear souls (the chooks not the potatoes). …Read more

Chooks in the garden

Oh, they are a delight. Personable little things, lovely to have except when they scratch out your newly planted pansies. Or, as I discovered this week, they nest in a totally different place – five plump brown eggs. …Read more

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