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There's still plenty of time to plant potatoes in Wellington. If you're transforming a patch of lawn into vegetable garden, potatoes are an ideal way to start. Even if you've only got a bed 1.2 meters square, it's still worth growing your own potaotes. Here's my article on potato growing from Wellington's FishHead magazine. I'll demonstrate potato … [Read more...]
Time to prune apples, pears, plums and roses if you haven't already done them. Goosegogs too. It's a beautiful warm day today, just right for those buds to start into life. I've sown some potatoes this week - probably a bit early, but as we don't get much frost, I might get away with it. And even if we get a late one, they'll just get set back a … [Read more...]
The Kitchen Garden featured on Saturday's Dominion Post gardening page. … [Read more...]
pink fir apple potatoes Radio New Zealand National ran a feature on Boxing Day in which I talked about starting your own vegetable garden. Deborah and Charmaine talk about their vegetable gardens and they have both been on the fresh food garden course. … [Read more...]
