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May for Manure crops and Mulch

May for Manure crops and Mulch

May for Manure crops and Mulch
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May for Manure crops and Mulch

Green Manure crops and mulching May is one of those cross over months for the garden. I start to think about bedding some areas down for winter and feeding the soil where greedy crops may have st...

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Exciting times
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Exciting times

Chili harvest Exciting times as we harvested chili this week. What a stunning harvest we have this year. The chili plants are definitely the star plants this month – only just beating out the pu...

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Autumn Community Spirit
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Autumn Community Spirit

In February, the community Defibrillator was installed on the main road at the New World in Otaki. Otaki Hydroponics were involved with Rotary to fund raise for this valuable community asset with ...

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October - Time for Russian Roulette
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October - Time for Russian Roulette

I always feel that October is the month for playing Russian Roulette. It’s the month of “Will I, won’t I” plant out. We have plants we have tended in the greenhouse just waiting to be planted int...

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The Gift of Growing

Over the last few years my style of Christmas shopping has changed considerably. The main question I now ask myself before I hit the shopping, is what do they NEED, will they use it? And will it br...

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Stripping For a Reason

Have you tried it? Stripping back the leaves of your hot house veges. I have spent a few hours this week doing exactly this in our hot house at work and I am already amazed at how much better every...

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Good To Go

Gardening is the greatest teacher of so many things, in particular patience, and just when you think you have all your ducks lined up nature dishes up a curve ball. Well, not so much as a curve ba...

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Mixing It Up

I'm sure you realise by now that, my heart is with organic growing. There is nothing more satisfying than picking fresh from my garden, knowing that I have done everything in my power to keep it as...

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What Goes Around Comes Around
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What Goes Around Comes Around

I cannot abide waste on any level, especially food waste! My spring crops are all coming ready now and as a result I am faced with the challenge of who is going to get the off cuts. The chooks can ...

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Love em or Loathe em
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Love em or Loathe em

History is a fascinating subject, we can learn so much from the past. While some would say that history is best left where it belongs....in the past. There is one part of my past that I have alway...

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