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Silverbeet, zukinis, cucumbers, beans and tomatoes 1 Feb 10
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I have silverbeet, zukinis, cucumbers, beans and tomatoes all organic ready to swap or sell :)
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I also have plenty of rhubarb to trade.
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I have a healthy crop of rhubarb to swap for whatever you have
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green variety called diva very prolific this year after a slow year last year, lots more coming on too
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February in your garden

Watch out for pests descending on almost ripe summer fruits . Use a natural method to deter and eliminate these.

This is a good time to plant autumn, winter and spring maturing vegetables e.g. winter carrots, beetroot, parsnip, swedes, turnip, brassicas, celery, broad beans and silverbeet. Grains and other seed plants are ripening fast.

Harvesting The first of the summer grown long keepers should be ready to pick, dry and store if they were planted early enough. When handling vegetables always treat them with care as they’ll store much longer this way.

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Drews vege garden

New Zealand
Drews vege garden
This is our third incarnation of our vege garden. My wife and I get a real kick out of growing our own veges, and each year we get a wee bit better at it. This year we have planted: Broccoli C...


Garden Collars "in action"

New Zealand > Wellington > Waikanae
Garden Collars "in action"
Since the collars are self-stacking, it's very easy for me to add height to my raised garden beds - it gets really windy sometimes, and one extra collar on top provides quite sufficient shelter.


Janet's garden (Green Urban Living)

New Zealand > Hawke's Bay
Janet's garden (Green Urban Living)
Our garden is in sunny Hawkes Bay. It is on a gentle slope facing north. It is organic and based on low maintenace permaculture principles. I have 'crop circles' ( round gardens built with the no dig ...

Gardening Articles

Keeping Chickens in the City and building a Chicken dome
Keeping Chickens in the City and building a Chicken dome Come to this fun and informative workshop to learn everything you need to know about keeping chickens in the city. During this half day workshop you will learn how to build a permaculture chicken 'Tractor''. Morning tea and comprehensive notes provided. If you are unable to attend workshop you can subscribe to the members only section of the web...
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Growing big tomatoes and why plants 'bolt'
Growing big tomatoes and why plants 'bolt' The weather has certainly not been great for gardening this spring and here we are into the first month of summer and still receiving weather as if we were in the first days of spring. Plants suffer just as we do when temperatures plummet, cold winds and rains wrecking havoc making for a hard time in and out of the garden. Normally in the spring ...
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Using ocean plants for your garden - sea weed etc

Using ocean plants for your garden - sea weed etc Seaweed, which originates from the ocean's garden, is one of the best materials for an earth garden. For one thing, kelp helps stimulates soil bacteria. This, in turn increases fertility of the soil by humus formation (which feeds on the bacteria), aeration and moisture retention.
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Healthy soil for a healthy garden!
Healthy soil for a healthy garden! Gardeners are always looking for new ways to improve their gardens whether it be their vegetables, roses, ornamentals or fruit trees. The goal is to have very healthy plants, wonderful roses, great lawns and high yielding crops. There are a number of things that you can do to improve your gardens such as improving your soils. The optimum is to ha...
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Gardening tidbits
Gardening tidbits It is Saturday in Palmerston North, and while I am writing this, nice showers are wetting the soil and plants are growing in response. It has been a poor spring and summer so far for gardening, but hopefully conditions will improve in February, if they don't then its going to be a bad season overall. Poor seasons are accepted as part of the life ...
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Animals in the garden - friends or foes?
Animals in the garden - friends or foes? Gardens can be blessed or cursed by our four legged friends and the winged ones, dependant on your own attitude to the pleasure or harm that they may contribute. We are talking about dogs, cats, hedgehogs, chickens and other bird life wild or in captivity. Dogs are mankind's best friend, loyal, loving and devoted to a caring family. They are best...
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Baby Carrots
Baby Carrots Carrots are brilliant sweet staple vegetable to grow, and baby carrots are particularly versatile. They are easy to grow, cheap to sow so will save you dough! In December, get your carrots on baby! The most cost effective way to grow vegetables is growing from seed. Seeds are cheap as chips and you can grow a heck of a lot of seedlings from a bag ...
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Peas in your garden
Peas in your garden Gardening is an amazing skill to be learnt, and basic knowledge is picked up simply by doing. If you are a non-green-fingered urban gardener, with a desire to expand your growing knowledge, peas are a simple-grow vegetable to start with. Peas are delicious, very easy to eat, and also require a limited amount of space, perfect for urban spaces! P...
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Making compost
Making compost Sooner or later gardeners come across the word "compost." As easy as it is to say, compost has a reputation for being difficult to master. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. If I can make hot, 160-degree compost during an Alaska winter (see photo below), you can too--no matter where you grow your tomatoes. It's easy. In fact, yo...
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Bring your herb garden indoors
Bring your herb garden indoors For gardeners who like to cook, there's nothing like fresh herbs. But when the growing season ends, does it mean you have to resort to grocery store herbs?
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Home gardening basics
Home gardening basics With lots of people trying their hand at gardening for the first time, either last season or for this new season it is timely to give a few tips on how to garden and have the best results. There is nothing worse for new gardeners who put in the effort and money then end up with poor results. It is very disheartening and can lead to some people qu...
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Planting Calendar
Planting Calendar Here are some guidelines for the kinds of activities you should be undertaking in your garden on a monthly basis. The secret to productive gardening is to work consistently and plant regularly - plant something every day if possible. See our guidelines below for what to do, harvest, and plant every month.
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This looks like it could be stem or collar rot. Does the plant perk up again in the evening when the...

Try and Google "growing strawberries". The internet is a wealth of knowledge. In your par...

its not that wet all the time is it? they like well-drained soil apparently. also might want to try ...

A newbie seeks a little advice if possible... Our strawberry plants are looking pretty mongrol an...

Is there any kind of seaweed that is harmful to the soil? I mean some fruit trees don't like too muc...

I'm growing them for the first time and my sister tells me that they're ready once they have flowere...

Iwould like to know if you can cut back your tomatoe Plants.. My Glass house is like a jungle and f...

We have always had abundant crops of tomatoes but this year our tomatoes are not growing and look si...

if its big are you supporting it with a stake or something? might just be gravity doing its thing?.....

Please help. I have a number of tomatoe plants which growing in my back yard. Most of them are fine,...

yeah, ive heard that if anything, they like cat food. ...but putting cat food out will probably attr...

Hi ANimal Lover, thanks for your advice. Anything you could recommend for the hedgehogs rather than...

In reference to you putting out a dish of milk for your hedgehogs, all hedgehog carers advise agains...

Hi.. yes rain water is better than tap as it collects quite high amounts of nitrogen and other chemi...

Being from Christchurch, I imagine your tap water will be very high quality as it is from quality aq...

I've googled whether Rain water is better than tap water, but I found no discussions around that. I'...

Thanks Rob very insightful.

good use of the chicken tractor...

Bunnings have a herb section in their plants area. I picked up a horse radish plant there a few mont...

The size of any plant can generally be controlled with pruning and training. The fertility of the so...

Get some ducks!!! They work for free...

Hi. I'm in Feilding in the Manawatu. I have about 200 or so edible plant varieties on a permaculture...

How wet is too wet? Should I water the potted tree ? a) everyday on Hot days (20+C)without rain ...

Avocados prefer soil that is not too wet. I have lost one or two here in auckland this way. I had on...

Kia Ora, I've bought an Olive tree and I'd like to plant it in between a Chilean guava young plant a...

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