About

Location

Auckland


Birthday:

July 16


Suburb

Sunnyvale


I can offer

Garden watering, Poultry sitting, to be a gardening buddy, Permaculture design, Tools & Equipment to hire/borrow


Food Growing Skill Level

Confident


Experience and Qualifications

Permaculture Experience, WWOOFer, Lots of years in the garden


I am interested in...

Buying Local Food, Community Gardens, Learning, Preserving, Seed Savers


Tell us about your garden and what you're growing

Just moved to Sunnyvale - north facing sloping section above a tributary of the Waikumete Stream. An old orchard site, we have inherited quince, fig, feijoa and citrus trees. We have a raised bed for greens, tomatoes in in-ground "pots" dug into the clay slopes, beans, kumara, italian heirloom pumpkin and kamokamo coming along. Trying out aubergines in black bags.


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  • Dot Dalziell December 20, 2009 at 9:51am
    Hi Mark,
    Thanks for the welcome.
    Three cheers for all the old trees planted by some marvelous person (or seeded by some careless bird) some time in the past. What a bequest! Am celebrating our quince and fig trees at the moment, and spent the hottest hour of the day lying in the pool of shade that the horse-chestnut creates watching the 8 ducklings forming a carpet after their swim.
    I like your inclusion of the community constables backyard into the web of food-production. V cool!
    Am getting ready to trial recipes for quince paste... I suspect it takes a lot of cooking...
    Cheers,
    Dot
  • Mark Osborne December 12, 2009 at 5:14am
    Hi Dot, Good to see you are on oooby, My partner Amanda and I joined in April this year.

    I am not so active on the site. My activity is more focused on the garden.

    We had a great summer season last year with Amanda bottling heaps of tomatoes. and fejoas.
    We are lucky to have a huge orange tree and a good mandarin as wellas 2 x fejoas..
    This year Amanda is taking the lead in the vege garden and I ten to focus on making good compot and dealing to the basic section maintenance.

    We are also luckey to have a local community garden started by some fellow oooby memberys . they have located it in the backyard of our community constable's office that is basicly a house on the main road in Te Atatu.

    Also just discovered our neighbours have a black doris plum tree and they dont lie them. Plum jam here we come.!!

    Cheers and see you at the office

    Mark O















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