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Comment by Rex Morris on August 23, 2012 at 6:24pm

We have had two whole days without rain - is this the sign of a drought?

Comment by Roxy Hart on August 21, 2012 at 4:21pm

wow there is so much water flowing around this area of the country (waikato) turffed and turned 3 new summer veg patches this weekend :) Pruned all 13 fruit trees, first time pruning fruit trees, i hope i did it right guess well find out come spring/summer. Well time to go get out the ol' seed box. Yay.

Comment by Rex Morris on August 21, 2012 at 3:13pm

Had another session with the Eteam kids at school - the seeds we selected and ordered from Kings had arrived so we went through them, talked about their growing needs, and planned how we could plant them out in the garden. And discovered that the garden is too small !! Next week we will put up a mini greenhouse for the seedlings - got a walk in one at Bunnings for $60.

Comment by Rex Morris on August 21, 2012 at 3:11pm

Beautiful veges Miriam - this is of course what gardening is all about. Must be that compost you make - cos celery surely needs it.

What is the vege with the red-while stalks and green leaves?

Comment by Miriam Tong on August 21, 2012 at 1:05pm

Not a bad haul, given that I've been very busy lately and haven't even been to the garden for over a week!  My Celery is the most prolific thing in the garden, finally starting to get tired of it.  Any North-West Aucklanders need/want some celery? :)

Since taking a composting course with Trish Allen, originally of Rainbow Valley Farm, I have been turning my compost fortnightly to get things moving and it's worked a treat.  I don't have a particularly big pile though, so it's not too much like hard work :)

Comment by Rex Morris on August 20, 2012 at 8:38pm

Being lazy I never turn my compost - I found years ago that it is just hard work for no real gain. I am a bit doubtful about the usefulness of turning - would be most interested to hear what others do.

Comment by Miriam Tong on August 20, 2012 at 9:47am

My TO DO today is to turn my compost, doing fortnightly turns and it's coming along nicely :)  well worth the effort!

Comment by Miriam Tong on August 20, 2012 at 9:46am

Hi everyone,

After doing a big landscaping job, we have a big sack of over 200 planter bags!  They're mainly size PB3 and some PB8.  I live in Waimauku, if anyone would like them (or some of them) I'm keen so save them from the landfill.

Hope to hear from you soon :)

Miriam

Comment by Kali on August 18, 2012 at 2:36pm

making marmalade from our lovely little grapefruit today, wish me luck, not sure if my pot is big enough  as I doubled the recipe lol.

beautiful spring weather here, getting lots of weeding done

Comment by Rex Morris on August 15, 2012 at 9:37pm

TomatoNotes: planted another lot of seeds - 6 Big Beef and 6 San marzano.

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