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I was looking but NOT seeing!
Since the spray drift incident in the spring I have not been SEEING the great recovery in the Kitchen Garden or APPRECIATING just how magnificent Mother Nature really is. Instead I had been focusing and fussing upon what DIDN’T grow and being kinda angry that the hormone growth inhibitors used may have irreparable damaged my [...]
My Kitchen Garden is Breaking ALL the Rules!!
My Kitchen Garden is breaking all the rules!! My kitchen garden is a hive of secret activity, it is doing a great job of re-seeding itself!! I have broccoli Raab, rocket, arugula, Belgian white carrots, purple dragon carrots and goodness knows what else popping up all over the place. In some instances it has even [...]
The Healing Power of Touch
As a nurse I have always been aware of the positive power of touch. sometimes a simple hand on an arm can convey more than a thousand words. I was always hugging, comforting and massaging my patients when it was needed. I have always been a tactile person and I used touch to comfort my [...]
Lessons Learnt Part Two
As some of you know, last spring was my first ‘real’ growing season in my Kitchen Garden, and I learnt some lessons and encountered some interesting problems. I thought you would like to hear more about some of the trials and tribulations…
Lessons I Learnt From Last Spring/Summer 2009
The herald of spring last year was an exciting time for me, it was a culmination of years of hard work and I have to admit I was stressed and excited all at once… I was time to get productive for my first growing season, and now it’s over and I have had time to [...]
What Do Minerals and Trace Elements Do? Part 2
In part one of What Do Minerals and Trace Elements Do, we looked at the main ‘big three’ minerals needed in your soil: phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium. And we also looked at some lesser known trace elements needed in our soil: calcium and magnesium. In part two we will continue to look at the lessen [...]
What Do Minerals and Trace Elements Do? Part 1
The aim of all gardeners is to grow healthy plants and vegetables, often it is a mis-construed idea that you have to feed the plant in order to make it healthy. This, however is not the case, it is the soil that needs the nutrients, in conjunction with, the correct pH so the roots of [...]
Understanding Soil pH
Look in any gardening book, under the section that deals with descriptions of how to grow individual cultivars, and they will invariably have some reference to the soil pH for that particular plant. Infact, soil pH, for the most part, is just slotted in to a description, almost like an after thought, usually between the:- [...]
How to Grow Maori Potatoes
This is what I love about growing my own food – making discoveries like Maori potatoes. I can see this becoming an obsession!! The most ‘famous’ Maori potatoes are, the dramatic purple/black ‘Urenika’ a stunning potato with a beautiful flavour, but, and this is the bit I love, there are 49 other varieties of Maori [...]
Planting By The Moon
Planting by the moon has earned itself a certain mystique, for some, it conjures up naked bodies dancing under a moon lit sky. For others, ancient complex ceremonies of secret cults with pagan rituals and unknown symbols. But in reality, for many centuries for travelers and, in particular, gardeners and farmers it has been a [...]
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