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at harvest end: tiger stripes

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Friday, November 28, 2014. Yeah I know I'm really selling it with the photo. It's top corner of the section. Former neighbours, many years ago, planted large trees hugging up to the hedge line. A potentially sad story of overbearing shade, voracious root systems, hedge munted by vigourous growth and consequently an area no longer suitable for growing. Wherever they are now, I really hope they are enjoying the pleasures of gardening and continuing to bless their world with more trees. The compost was full...

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at harvest end: July 2013

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Thursday, July 18, 2013. Winter is the perfect time to collect seaweed for the garden. Dunedin is always good for a trip to the beach, even if you have to wrap yourself in the picnic blanket to get warm. The goal is to get seaweed for the garden direct and the compost bins, if I get that much. Of course I don't headline so bluntly. 'Who wants to go to the beach and try out Johnny's new BBQ? Everybody it turns out. That affords me 6 sacks of seaweed. We can all carry back one bag each. Deep Into the Darkn...

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at harvest end: November 2014

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Friday, November 28, 2014. Yeah I know I'm really selling it with the photo. It's top corner of the section. Former neighbours, many years ago, planted large trees hugging up to the hedge line. A potentially sad story of overbearing shade, voracious root systems, hedge munted by vigourous growth and consequently an area no longer suitable for growing. Wherever they are now, I really hope they are enjoying the pleasures of gardening and continuing to bless their world with more trees. The compost was full...

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at harvest end: February 2014

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Saturday, February 15, 2014. What's working and what's not. Clearly the garlic worked although truth be known I was disappointed. I had two beds and the later one out performed the early by a mile, and then there was so much rain that I just pulled it all and dried it in the shed. Come Vege Club and it was garlic and shallots on the competition table, there were plaits, elephant garlic, beautiful shallots and much bigger garlic heads too, if a little grubby. I got the digging team to put anything close t...

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at harvest end: September 2014

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Saturday, September 6, 2014. And the winner is. Irrelevant to the photos, and today's title, I've somehow won a couple of flower carpet roses from a local nursery. I 'll be off to collect them on Monday once the weekend crowds are gone. No skill was required. Back to those potatoes in a minute, here's the tunnel house getting the seaweed treatment. This way it disappears. I'm going to plant only a few grafted tomatoes this year and then use the extra space for beans, courgettes, basil which struggled out...

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at harvest end: February 2015

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015. There was a gap between taking the photos, and the writing of it this week, and I've already moved on to other things, but let me dredge my mind. Why did I take these photos? The cucumbers seemed like a greater triumph, for some reason, than tomatoes and basil; all three are amazing just because they are home grown. How often do I say that? I was given 3 different strawberry varieties this year that I am keen to trial. First step is multiplication. Just the one runner ...A par...

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at harvest end: August 2014

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Saturday, August 9, 2014. Lets not waste time with all the reasons for not posting, or wring hands over computer melt downs, and a forgotten email address, oh how the list goes on. As someone said to me this week, "Never mind the why, let's just solve the problem" so onwards to the ever fascinating, richly rewarding world of gardening. The others are too big for the fridge and too knobbly to get the dirt out easily. We are juicing them with carrots, apple, and ginger. It tastes virtuous with eart...I bro...

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at harvest end: April 2014

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Thursday, April 17, 2014. Whether the weather be hot or whether the weather be cold. I've been watching gardening videos courtesy of the vege club library, living vicariously. The only sort of gardening for this week end I suspect. Pouring doesn't describe the rain, it's driving in against the windows and under the back door making its way into places it doesn't usually go. Has filled up the metre deep post holes that we dug last week for the retaining wall. Little concrete retaining walls are appearing ...

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at harvest end: fear factor

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015. The distance between what I envisage for the garden, and what is actually there, has never seemed so great. Part of the problem is all the ideas on hold that are milling around in my mind; but it is so dry and to move a plant right now is to lose a plant, or at least set it back some. In a world post-NCEA results, where plans for the schooling year are being made, it's good to remember that life is not a competition and there are many trajectories. Some potatoes you dig, others...