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I thought it was high time I updated you on where the garden is at. The truth is, we now are deep into winter here in New Zealand, so I haven’t been out there lately (well, occasionally to drop stuff in the compost bin!). I did, however, put in a few retainers and plant a [...]

One thing I have always been a fan of is composting. Packing your food scraps up in bits of plastic and sending them to landfill really makes no sense, especially if you have a garden. Even an apple core still has useful nutrients locked up in it, so why pay for a bag of compost, [...]

We have something of four gardens here. That is, if you count decks as gardens. Which I do. Leading up from the drive on the left, there is a front deck. Which spans half the width of the house and sits in front of the patio sliders. Down the right hand side of this deck [...]