A bakery tray loaded with sanguine peaches cut in half and the seed removed.
Picked up a bucket of sanguine peaches from a lady in town, time to freeze them all so we can make crumble all winter 😋.
Going to throw all the seeds down the back of the garden and hopefully start our own tree.
#kai #nzgardening
Bread trays lined with newspaper are holding single layers of walnuts. There is a fan behind them blowing air to speed up the drying time.
The stacking and drying begins. #kai #nzgardening
We're only half way through picking up the walnuts that have dropped SO FAR. #kai #nzgardening
#Homegrown #NZGardening tomatoes with fried garlic, salt and tomato paste made into sautéed tomatoes for use in winter for pastas etc. I love this colour. Pizza for kai o te po. Kei te tunu te kai.
#Homegrown #Mara #NZGardening
Tomatoes: bloody butcher, mortgage lifter, and beefsteak, and peanuts we grew. The peanuts 🥜 are so sweet.
sweet potatoes dug from the soil still attached to the plant
February in NZ brings the joy of harvesting kūmara (sweet potato), a treasure from our gardens! 🍠 Rich in history & flavor, these sweet potatoes remind us of the blend of traditional & modern in our meals. Let's savor the taste of Aotearoa! #NZGardening #FebruaryHarvest #Kumara
#Mara #NZGardening This fruit salad plant is in a 50L pot. Does anyone have ideas for frames for supporting its structure aa it grows? Im using dowel but I'm going to need something more heavy duty as it gets bigger. It is growing towards the light. There is electrical wire behind this wall.
#Mara #NZGardening Artichokes being fabulous 👌 as feck. I like the flowers and their taste. @cassiemph.bsky.social
#Mara #MaraKai #NZGardening My red pineapple 🍍 is blooming for the first time ever which im very excited about. Avocados, store-bought cucumbers flowering in my greenhouse, artichokes, dahlias. Best time of the year.
#NZGardening What were your fave pro ecology/wilderness/gardening stories as a kid? Mine were Farewell to Shady Glade, The Lorax, The Secret Garden, The Wind in the willows. These stories esp The Lorax and The Secret Garden formed my desire to garden & green things up by stealth public planting.
#Mara I #NZGardening Lasagne composting. I created 2 Lasagne compost heaps this weekend with cardboard soaked, green vegetation (weeds, I've been weeding like a demon as we've had other things take up our time), and mulch from tree pruning that had been chipped. It makes great soil.
#Mara #Raumati #NZGardening #Putiputi
Mara raumati in Aotearoa. Yellow daisies, artichokes, honeywort and cactus flower.
#KaiMara #Mara #NZGardening I used the chipped leaves and bark from numerous tree pruning events to make a lasagne compost bed. Layers are: leaves and weeds as fresh green vegetation, bark chip mulch as brown vegetation, then water soaked cardboard with sellotape removed as brown vegetation. Repeat.
#Mara #MaraKai #NZGardening #Putiputi #HuaRakau #HuaWhenua Spring in the Mara. I love how wild and verdant everything is. Yeah, I've got to do some weeding but it's still at the cute stage. The thistle is a Taniwha.
In today's gardening blog post I share my Susie Ripley Gardening Seed Haul I got this winter.
#blog #blogging #garden #gardening #gardeningblog #nzgardening #nzgarden
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Local gardening gurus talk about cultivating passions! Forager Felicity Joy and gardener Ann Chapman with garden expert Hannah Zwartz.
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Green praying mantis sitting on the red leaf of a blueberry bush during winter. Auckland, New Zealand.
A green praying mantis is cleaning one of its limbs with its mouth while hanging upside down from the red leaf of a blueberry bush in winter, Auckland, New Zealand.
A praying mantis, which has not yet figured out the art of camouflage, crawling over the winter-red leaves of my blueberry bushes. NB. its piratical black eye. #nzgardening
A tree which is leafy at the bottom, and at the top is a single weird stick with two tiny leaves at the top.
Zoomed in further ...
... And further
This is a triple graft pear tree. One of the grafts is, um. Outperforming the others. #nzgardening
In this week's blog I sowed my ranunculus seeds, and now have small seedlings to look after over winter.
#blog #blogging #gardening #gardenblog #nzgardening
www.craftygardener.co.nz?post_id=135&...
Photo of bespoke wooden screen covered with banksia rose in bloom in garden setting
A scene from summer, my best buddy made this wooden screen, covered with banksia rose blossoms. #nzgardening
Oi #NZGardening long tale of malicious birds short, I've had a real time of keeping chillis going, and the little plant that could has a few greenies left still. Thing is, the one reddening up now is rotted where the fruit joins the plant, should I pull the rest green (no damage) or wait and see?
Almost a year of mulched trees, grass clippings, food waste, and cardboard scraps to hopefully turn into food over winter! #nzgardening #gardening #compost
Closeup of Nyctemera annulata - makokōrori or NZ magpie moth caterpillars feeding on a daisy relative plant with yellow flowers growing out of cracks in concrete.
Lots of Nyctemera annulata - makokōrori or NZ magpie moth caterpillars feeding on a daisy relative plant with yellow flowers growing out of cracks in concrete.
Great to see this little pocket of life on busy Brougham St outside Prima Roastery in Ōtautahi. Nyctemera annulata - makokōrori or NZ magpie moth caterpillars feeding on a daisy relative. These weeds could easily have been sprayed or pulled. Nice to see what the alternative looks like. #nzgardening
NZgardeners gets picked up too! Don't worry 😀
that one has a wildcard on it like #nzgarden* so it'll get #nzgarden but also #nzgardener(s) or #nzgardening etc etc. #nzgardencentre ... Anything at all could go where the asterisk is. The waterlilies are gorgeous!!
Nz native plant windbreaker about 4 to 5 feet tall, including manuka, kowhai. Whau, five fingers
Nz native plant windbreaker some plants over 5 feet tall, including manuka, kowhai. Whau, flax, pohutukawa
Nz native plant windbreaker some plants over 5 feet tall, including manuka, kowhai. Whau, flax, pohutukawa
We planted our mostly nz native windbreak, mostly following the miyawaki forest method, and it's growing so fast. Close to 3x as fast as the trees planted on their own! This section is a bit over a year old and started as tiny seedlings. #tinyforest #miyawaki 🌱🇳🇿 #nzgardening
