September In The Vegie Patch + Greenhouse

Septembers plate is refreshingly green: saladings, celery, parsley, cress, silverbeet, kale, nettle, broccoli shoots for Africa, the last of the cabbage and – joy oh joy the first of the […]

How to Grow Potatoes

Spuds are so easy that you can accidently leave a tuber in ground and grow a whole new crop. Rogue potato seedlings turn up all over the place – I […]

How to Grow Kumara Shoots

The journey to a boomer crop of kumara begins with shoots or tipu. Start them growing now, in early spring. Shoots are grown on a kumara, and this kumara is […]

Homemade Seed Raising Mix

Knowing how to make your own seed raising mix is, I reckon, an essential skill. It means that no matter what, you can always sow seed and in this way, […]