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Spring Garden

Posted on 10 January, 2012 by Louise

As all Christchurch residents know, Labour weekend is the time to begin planting your vegetable garden.  Here are a few shots of our spring vege garden.  It looks very different now so I will do an update post shortly. Corn … Continue reading →

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Gisborne Holiday 2010 – 2011 – Part Five

Posted on 21 January, 2011 by Kris

Plum Time

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Overwhelmed

Posted on 16 November, 2010 by Louise

We haven’t posted for a while…life has been busy. The earthquakes keep us rocking and rolling.  When will they end?  It seems that each week we get at least one decent sized quake (around 5 magnitude). Amy was involved in … Continue reading →

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We’ve been out in the garden

Posted on 30 October, 2008 by Louise

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. … Continue reading →

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Update on the vege garden

Posted on 13 March, 2008 by Louise

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 … Continue reading →

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Raised Bed Gardening

Posted on 4 February, 2008 by Kris

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 … Continue reading →

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