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Citrus Variety for Chch

I intend to add a handful of citrus to the garden, namely, orange, grapefruit and mandarin. I am quite keen to find out from locals about the citrus cultivar and variety that you have planted and how well are they doing. Any special consideration/tre

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Kiwifruit

Anyone in Christchurch growing Kiwifruit?

My vines are ramping all over the chookshed and nearby trees, with a prolific crop of fruit hanging at head level. After a couple of sharpish frosts the leaves are gone and I can see hundreds of kiwifruit han

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Home urgently required for goats

At risk of sounding melodramatic, if we can't find a home for our 3 goats they will have to be shot. We thought we had someone would take them, but it hasn't happened and I have about 2 weeks before we downsize and move to the NI. So the situation is

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Free chickens

we are moving and cant take them with us.

7 chickens to re home, can proabably even sort you out with some chicken wire to create your own coop with.

You dont have to take all 7, but must take 2 at a time as they are used to company.

 

we are near Bi

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Free chickens

we are moving and cant take them with us.

7 chickens to re home, can proabably even sort you out with some chicken wire to create your own coop with.

You dont have to take all 7, but must take 2 at a time as they are used to company.

 

we are near Bi

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Berm planting


Hi all, I'm interested in planting the berm with a native garden however the council seems a bit anti. Has anyone done it or know of anyone who's done it? Or are the others who would be keen to put something together to put to the council re altering

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wheelie bins for compost toilets

Hi,

Has anyone been to a compost toilet workshop lately?  there has been some good media coverage of the recent workshops you can check out at stuff.co.nz

For anyone who would like wheelie bins to make a compost toilet system the contact is Magnus Kol

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Swap rhubarb for.. ???

how do m'lovelies :)

 

We have several rhubarb plants in our garden - I suspect that the previous owners were big fans, but neither of us are and they're sited right where we're planning to build a chicken run!

 

I'll keep a couple to see if homegrow

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firewood and rabbits

Hi, I'm new to ooooby. I'm in the process of converting our garden to mainly edibles. I hope it all goes well, at the moment it looks a bit like a disaster zone. Anyway, as I'm removing a lot of the original plants I have some free firewood on offer

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Nose to tail eating in chch

Not everyone has the possibility of keeping animals other than possibly a couple of chickens. When you only have a couple you are likely to treat them as pets and find it hard to kill them for meat. No one likes the act of killing an animal but if yo

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