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 […]