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Gardening

Whether you’re cultivating a flower garden to brighten your property, or simply want to try growing your own food, Our monthly column is a great place to start. Establishing a vegetable garden may seem a bit overwhelming to most people, but it’s actually very straight forward. All you need is a few square meters in your garden, some water, seeds or seedlings to get you started and a little time and patience.

Time for filling the freezer by Andrew Trott

29th February 2016 Mary

Keep watering vegetable plants to keep them healthy, vigorous and disease free. During hot weather watering deeply once or twice…

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Start pottering 2015

Start Pottering

28th October 2015 Mary
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Gardening

Preparing to plant out

22nd September 2015 Mary
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Scott Ave working Bee

Scott Ave Working Bee

16th September 2015 Mary
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Lynmore Playcentre

Matariki celebrations at Lynmore Playcentre

27th August 201527th August 2015 Mary
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Cake making for the birds

Cake making can be for the birds! by Andrew Trott

26th August 2015 Mary

A few years ago I built some little bird-feeding houses for the grandkids. We kept one of the birdfeeders for…

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Chitting potatoes

Chitting Potatoes

25th August 2015 Mary

Now is the time to buy your seed potatoes and to start “chitting” or sprouting them. Time also to start…

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Owhata kindy_4

Owhata Kindergarten celebrate Matariki

19th August 201520th August 2015 Mary

Today at Central Kids Owhata Kindergarten we celebrated Matariki by inviting our parents and whanau to help the tamariki plant…

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Pruning Trees

Maintenance Matters

3rd July 2015 Royston Bartholomew

The vegetable gardens do not require much attention right now and the lawns only need mowing every second week, so…

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Winter Gardening

Down to Earth

28th May 201528th May 2015 Royston Bartholomew

I must admit that writing this particular gardening article has not been a real priority for me over the last…

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