If you can keep your soil in good heart through summer, your autumn garden is going to be a much easier ride by far. Soil that dries out and looses its mojo is a big mission to repair – do your best to avoid it. Steady moisture and steady soil health is the foundation from […]
January in the Vegie Patch, Keep Soil Health High + How to Grow Basil
December in the Vegie Patch, How to Water + Hot Tomato Tips
Hello summer! Balmy nights and longer days means gardens go up a gear – plants, seeds, weeds, pests, the good and bad – everything zooms along. Keep up in the easiest and most pleasurable of ways with little and often bursts of attention. Little and often makes your summer garden (and your life), better. If […]
November in the Vegie Patch, Fruit Tree To Do List + Wondrous Worm-castings
The most important mission this month is getting long term crops like kumara, yams, pumpkins and peppers, in the ground. Yams need about 6 months to fatten up, kumara and sweet peppers need 4 – 5 warm months and pumpkins 4 – 6 months (variety dependant). They all need varying degrees of warmth to thrive, […]
October in the Vegie Patch, Citrus Care + Grass Grub Solutions
Let planting and sowing take center stage this month, as we look to not only our summer tables, but our winter pantries as well. October is one of the busiest months, but well worth the effort. Dig in! It’s a job well suited to many hands, and a good deal of patience, for we must […]