In the new planter made by my darling hubby, after I dug in about an inch of compost from the dalek, I planted pea seeds. Quite frankly they look more like shrivelled up peas to me than seeds. They are Watkins’ WF Massey Dwarf Peas and according to the packet “a very popular dwarf variety. […]
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 […]