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My Therapy as Cure garden

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Old baths worked gr8. spring 08 View all images at full size Being that, even though it's here on the W.Coast, where the rainfall over winter is higher than some other areas, we can & do have extended times without rain too & a lot of us are on tank water supply only... so.. water conservation is very much part of the problems to be worked around
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New Zealand > West Coast
Features: Basil , Bay Tree , Beans , Beetroot , Borage , Broccoli , Cabbages , Capsicums , Carrots , Cauliflower , Celery , Chervil , Chilli peppers , Chives , Coriander , Corn/Sweetcorn , Courgettes , Cress , Cucumber , Greenhouse/glasshouse, Leeks , Lemon Balm , Lettuce , Marjoram , Microgreens , Mint , Nasturtium , Onions , Organic garden , Parsley , Parsnip , Peas , Potatoes , Pumpkins , Radishes , Rhubarb , Rocket (Arugula) , Rosemary , Sage , Salad greens , Savory - Summer , Shallots , Silver beet , Spinach , Spring onions , Tomatoes , Vegetable garden

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Approximate size: 200 m2

Garden description: I have always had a love of growing veges for home use & making all kinds of preserves from what I produce. However, I have cut my teeth on how I go about things while living in a remote coastal area where my car was a boat in the outer Marlborough Sounds. There, I was fully self sufficient... "off the grid" & really using the number 8 wire mentality every day. The climate was warmer & had lots less rain than here on the W.C. My method of gardening is "to get the job done however I can manage it & to heck with the fact that it looks like a girl's done it".... Within that framework is the fact that I have a somewhat serious incurable degenerative spinal disease... which, as it affects the nerves relating to the function of other muscle groups means it also affects my heart function causing Angina... But hey, As my title says... It's the place where I feel peaceful & able to be a part of making & watching live things grow & through that feeling I relax & my mind is diverted to a meditative state & through that... pain is more manageable for some short periods. All my garden beds are raised & were laid down using the E. Deans No dig approach 3 years ago. Most of my plants I grow from seed which I start off in the glass house then transfer into the garden under frames. Another reason I like raised beds was due to the ground having been a dump sight upon which all sorts of "uglies" had leached from old water tanks which had been used a rubbish bins which had rusted away over the years...So I didn't want to risk eating what I grow organically out of toxic earth. Thankfully, the base ground is quite free draining, however, there is a bothersome layer of clay sub soil which needing quite a bit of conditioning before I felt happy with it.

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by Cheryl 12 Nov 09, 1 replies : Last Post

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Cheryl 1 posts	Fellow Coaster Posted 12 Nov 09 1:33 PM I have just arrived on the coast after living in Australia for 20 years (an expat) and glad to be back in NZ. I love the way you have done your spuds - awesome. Your garden is certainly an inspiration and as I've only been back a few months I can't wait to see the results of my gardening attempts. Certainly different here on the coast compared to very severe water restrictions we had in Oz.

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coastalong 1 posts	Re: Fellow Coaster Posted 23 Nov 09 4:35 PM Hi Cheryl. I suppose you won't be very impressed with how all this rain & cooler temps we've been having has slowed up the growth in the veg garden. Mine is going to be very late this year. The only things thriving are in the glasshouse. Are you on tank H2o also ? What have you planted. See Aus is taking a hit already with the fire season really kicking in. Thanks for your comments.

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