Yesterday we had a drizzly morning that developed into a gorgeous, sunny but cool afternoon so off into the front garden I went. The assistant gardener was at crèche and the little lad was having his afternoon nap so with the baby monitor nestled in the flower bed I started to prune my roses. A […]
The veggie patch and front garden both need weeding but the weather let me down this weekend. It would have been perfect with hubby home to watch bubs and the assistant gardener could have stayed with him or come out and played in the garden with me. But no, we had just enough drizzle of […]
About a month ago we had a short period of sunny weather and I decided to make the most of it and planted a few Tomato plants in the recently dug over and composted plots.  Well I rushed up to Mitre 10 and purchased a punnet of six roma seedlings and one large beefsteak seedling. […]
While I pulled the overgrown weeds from the veggie patch my young daughter busied herself digging in the freshly turned soil. Examining the odd leaf and stone she squealed with delight when she came across a snake. Now some of you may be aware that New Zealand doesn’t have snakes, neither native or imported but […]
Still not confident that I would actually get a lot of time to garden and seeing how much needed doing outside I decided I would focus my attention onto the vege patch first aiming to have a productive patch this summer. After all if I could have strawberries for the littlies to munch on and […]
About six weeks ago we started to get the odd sunny day that heralded the arrival of spring and my inclination to start getting out and sorting the garden began. Now my son still has a morning and afternoon nap giving me two opportunities to garden and my daughter is now old enough (two ½ […]
After spending the last three years either being pregnant or caring for newborns my garden has gone to rack and ruin. My garden, I see it as three gardens on the one section. The Front Garden consisting of the driveway with two large raised flowerbeds and small patch of lawn. The Vege Patch including a […]