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We’ve been out in the garden

October 30, 2008

Over Labour weekend we were able to get out into the garden.  Everything is growing now that spring is here! We hadn’t done anything with our raised bed, just left it with the silverbeet and parsley slowly growing over winter. They both bolted and were about to go to seed so we pulled out all [...]

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Update on the vege garden

March 13, 2008

We have been harvesting lots of veges from our garden.  Lots of celery, silverbeet, lettuce, parsley, basil, spring onions and courgettes (just little ones though).  I think we will pull the courgette out soon and next time will just plant it in our old compost pile as it takes up a fair bit of room.  [...]

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Raised Bed Gardening

February 4, 2008

Inspired after our holiday in Gisborne, and with the unexpected bonus of coming home to a tidy section (thanks to friends who stayed in our house while we were away), we decided to build a raised bed vege garden. Untreated 1″ by 8″ box cut timber was sourced from Bunnings, and we set to work. [...]

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