Buy your fruit trees and companion plants from one of our small, owner operated, NZ nurseries. Tap into their experience, their range of unusual and heritage varieties, and score yourself tasty, trusty, reliable trees and plants. These passionate nursery women and men are doing important work keeping older varieties going – support them! Edible Garden […]
The Healthy Soil Project #3: Plant power
By Leave a Comment | LastUpdated July 1, 2025
Plants are incredibly fertile – grass, dahlias, nettles, parsley, plantain, borage, buttercup, comfrey, dock, shrubs, trees – you get the picture, all plants! Just by being there and growing they are improving soil and the health of all the other plants around them. Take fertility next level with a bigger range of plants, a few […]
How To Mulch Fruit Trees
By 29 Comments | LastUpdated June 1, 2025
Fruit trees, on the whole, do best with a living mulch, which is simply a covering of plants as in the photo above (yes that includes grass and weeds!) A living mulch is not only super fertile, but its loads easier for you too – read more about it here. There’s a time and place […]
Honey Butter Baked Apples
By 2 Comments | LastUpdated June 1, 2025
When the Mayflower apples are ripe, this is the first thing I make. I love this recipe, they’re the best baked apples you’ll ever eat. And they’re great the next day – stirred through porridge, made into a crumble or eaten cold even (that’s me for ya). My fav is to use an old fashioned […]
