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We've just harvested the kūmara. It needs a warm summer, and this was the first summer we've grown it in a raised garden bed instead of a bag.

At first, I thought it was a failure. I poked around the roots and found nothing. We pull out the…

Ants, slugs, and snails don't much like coffee. But worms do like it. If, like me, you have an abundance of coffee grounds from staying home, you can sprinkle the coffee around the vege to deter these creatures. It also fertilizes the plants and disappears into the soil after a f…

There's so much baking going on here, stuck at home under the nationwide pandemic lockdown – and when we can get eggs we end up with many eggshells. These can be crushed and placed around the base of brassica like cabbage and broccoli. Snails and slugs don't …

Have been looking for a decent "vegetable garden diary" for a while and have recently discovered this site, Am using it in parallel with another whilst I decide whether either is usable or whether the only alternative is to spend time building my own. Critical issues for me which may lead me away…

Upper greenhouse Radishes growing well, coriander, basil, spring onions and mixed lettuce/salad leaves all germinated and growing.

Patio greenhouse Tigerella tomatoes many germinated, small plants still…

Due to the pandemic lockdown, I can't go to the hardware store to get things. I've been in semi-isolation since the start of march, and we've been in nationwide lockdown since last week.

I needed to set up the nets to keep out the white butterfly. I've had to be creative and i've had to recycl…

this is one way to amuse us while in nationwide pandemic lock down

Miss 10 made this artwork, as a concept our new logo.

As far as I can tell, no nurseries in British Columbia (or the rest of Canada) currently sell the peach variety actually developed and adapted for this area. Local nurseries all seem to import peach trees from big American distributors, who don't offer it. Smaller American nurseri…

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Recipe for kamokamo fritters

This plant wants to take over the world. It's that pink ginger you get with sushi. It is pretty magical. It's not the root like regular ginger. Instead, you harvest the pink flower and the pickle it. That why the sushi ginger looks like a pink petal. It is a petal.

I have constrained this [myo…

The Island Bay tomato plants have been finally turning red. I only got 5 seeds last year, and these sprouted into three plants. - which are now giving huge fruit.

I made some tomato sauce out of these. They're great raw but they are definitely good for sauce too. I…