Category Archives: Gardening

A New Adventure

By Liz | Published: July 26, 2010
There has been a lot of press lately about how the price of food has increased. All this discussion has got me thinking. A few years ago the then editor of New Zealand Gardener, Lynda Hallinan, tried to live off her land. But there was only one of her to feed. No offence Lynda, but [...]
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About a garden

By Liz | Published: September 11, 2009
Since I’m planning to write more about our vege garden this year I thought I would start by describing what our growing conditions are like. We live on the west coast of the lower North Island, inland, tucked up under the Tararua’s. This means we have very good rainfall. It also means that the temperatures [...]
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Spring

By Liz | Published: September 1, 2009
Does fine weather make you feel better? When it returns I’ll let you know if I feel better. That is unfair because August was warm and dry here, shame September hasn’t started off that way. I know there have not been regular posts for a while but as some of you know and others may [...]
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Meet Kermit

By Liz | Published: March 5, 2009
Yesterday, while weeding the vege garden something larger than an insect sort of jumped out of the undergrowth. What I saw, sitting on a lump of dirt about half a metre in front of me, was a frog! It was small and brownish. We looked a each other for a few minutes then I slowly [...]
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I’m still here

By Liz | Published: March 2, 2009
I know I haven’t written anything for a while, along while actually. With school and uni starting back I’ve been having scheduling issues. But never fear I’m working on it. Part four of ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’ is coming (so is Christmas!). What I need is a gadget that translates the thoughts in my head [...]
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Jack-boots and beans

By Liz | Published: January 22, 2009
Has anyone noticed how trendy vegetable gardening is? For once I’m up with the trend, I’ve been vege gardening for about 15 years. I think the popularity of growing your own vege has been driven by a number of factors. The growing price of veges in the supermarket makes grow your own worth the effort. [...]
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Beans for miles

By Liz | Published: January 5, 2009
Homely Wife has been on holiday. This year we actually went away, to the South Island. Being homely sort people we don’t do this very often. Holidays are supposed to leave you feeling rested. I’m not sure that this works for our family, all I seemed to get was bad dose of sunburn and grumpy [...]
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Know thy Vegetables

By Liz | Published: January 7, 2008
What is this plant?   In early November I planted some cucumber and yellow scalloped zucchini in one of my garden beds. The seeds sprouted. One group of cucumber was killed by a late frost. Two plants remained. One I was sure was the yellow zucchini, this was the first time I had tried growing [...]
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