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Vegetable Seeds 4 Mar 10
Vegetable Seeds

A range of home grown and collected seeds

Beans 2 Mar 10
Beans

I have loads of round beans and scarlet runners & tomatoes

Organic pears 27 Feb 10
Organic pears

We have a tree covered in organic pears. We think they are Vicar Winkfield pears. 90 + year old tree. They're crispy pears and good for eating fresh a...

Zucchini and cucumber 26 Feb 10
Zucchini and cucumber

Have far more than two of us can eat. taste great but cant keep up with them even with making zucchini chocolate cake

Italian tomatoes 24 Feb 10
Italian tomatoes

Italian tomatoes perfect for preserves and sauces. Great in pasta and casseroles. Spray free.


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Home Gardens

Fruit and Vege Garden

New Zealand > Auckland
Fruit and Vege Garden
I've gardened since I was a kid and my dad taught me to triple ditch. Its an organic garden and I make my own compost etc. Several years back we we brought the section next door and the kids claimed t...


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

Growing avocado

Growing avocado Avocados are health and delicious but can be on the expensive side to buy. But did you know that you can grow an avocado from the stone in the middle of an avocado purchased from the shop? All you need to do is put it suspended over a jar of water with just one end in the water and once it has sprouted, transfer it to a pot until it grows too big f...
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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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Grow yourself some lettuce

Grow yourself some lettuce Why not grow your own lettuce – it is simply to grow and you can enjoy eating organic, fresh lettuce throughout the year. You will also save on cash – how many times have you purchased lettuce from the supermarket only to find it goes off in the fridge? Buy a packet of seeds and all going well it will keep you supplied with lettuce for most for the...
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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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Hi I'm trying to source a supplier of Yew timber(anywhere) and Yew trees located in Wgtn. Can a...

Okay - second attempt to post an image, I might be able to grow stuff but web stuff eludes me...

The shed has everything including the kitchen sink! I use it as a potting shed and the chooks use it...

What's in the red shed? And what do you do with all the fruit and vege you grow?

We have just acquired a tunnel house and growing tomatoes for the second season. Last year was awful...

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Ahh takes me back, cut fingers and knocked ankles from moving the tractor around the beds, great way...

Not that busy really. The main bed is about 8m x 8m and nothing fancy just an old fashioned veggie g...

Are you regularly watering them? Do it early in the day, at the same time each day and try not to wa...

I am VERY impressed with your garden. Its not a big area but you have used the land really well. I R...

You have been very busy. I wish I had that much room for vegies.

I am very impressed with your lovely garden. You have been VERY busy. How long do you work in it eve...

i havent had to buy any lettuce since november! just a mixed lettuce seed pack and a couple new seed...

Hey, what a great garden you have! Thanks for all the great photos of your produce.

Surely there is nothing better for you than picking a lettuce straight out of the garden, a quick ri...

Yes Coriander and Cliantro are both the same plant. Try and get slow bolt variety and sow direct as ...

I can see no purpose in mulching with sheep pellets! the pine needles are ok but all top-mulches lik...

Sounds like you NEED to cut back your tomatos to get the fruit ripening! snip off lower leaves, and ...

I used to live in Brisbane where they grow fabulously! I believe they need plenty of heat, so the gl...

The suckers are called runners, where there are leaves on it, it will grow roots - so peg it down to...

This garden looks much like mine lol its not chaotic

Reply to this post with any suggestions or information on growing lettuce at home.

I grow my nursery bought plant in Christchurch and i'm not 100% sure if I'll have any fruit. Current...

Thought you might be interested in some of the research: 1. Worms don't pee or wee. You are talkin...

Can avos be grown as far south as Christchurch or do they prefer the warmer North Island weather?

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