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If you're thinking about gifts, here are some ideas: 1. A place on the fresh food garden course. 2. Ten packets of seeds - my pick would be: spring onions, carrots, cos lettuce, herbs, pak choi, rocket, white turnips, perpetual spinach, french beans, beetroot. With all these you'd have vegetables or salad for most of the year. $30. 3. … [Read more...]
I've tried a variety of supports for climbing beans but this is my preferred method. I cross over pairs of 2.1m bamboo canes in a line, pushed into the soil as far as I can. I secure the tops tightly to a horizontal cane with a cable tie. At the ends I use 2.1m plastic coated metal stakes. The canes will last a few years if you store them somewhere … [Read more...]
There are a few places left on the last fresh food garden course of the year on Saturday 5 December 2009. You'll be able to see seaweed being used in all these ways. I use any mixture of seaweed types straight off the beach without washing it or chopping it up, including any sand stuck to it. Wellington City Council has some rules about collecting … [Read more...]
Here's one of my honey bees busy on the red kale that's gone to seed. It's been the coldest and wettest October for years so there's no honey in the hive and the girls are making the most of every fine day to gather provisions. Bees and native birds both benefit from plants that provide pollen and nectar. They also need a constant source of easily … [Read more...]
