Alison's Garden Blog

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 […]