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After last year’s disaster season, how is the garlic growing in 2022?

I spent my 40th birthday buying and planting trees. 16 year old me would be horrified.

You’d think with so much native bush (and with more trees planted each year), we might put in a few bee hives at The Outpost. But we won’t be. Here’s why.

I’ve been thinking and scheming – and I think I’ve come up with a plan for our first area of ‘food forest’.

This week I spent $13 on a piece of fruit – and it was worth every cent. But can I grow good mangoes in New Zealand? Well, I’m going to give it a try!

The rain fell quite spectacularly this week. We’re now in our fourth year of weather monitoring, so how wet has the last year been?

It’s been an unexpectedly dry week, so we got some things done.

We’ve finally planted our collection of cane berries into the ground!

We’ve got too many potatoes so I’m looking for new ways to use them. Turns out, a Sally Lunn is a pretty excellent way to use them.

It’s taken nearly 3 years but I realised that all our space and wind make a fantastic combination for kite flying, so I bought a kite.

We’ve got too many potatoes so I’m looking for new ways to use them. Turns out, a Sally Lunn is a pretty excellent way to use them.

A light and deceptively simple dessert that can be made in a range of flavour combinations depending on what’s available and what sounds yum!

We eat a lot of potatoes, so we grow a lot of potatoes. Here’s how we harvest and store them to feed us through winter.

A round up of what went right (and too right!) in the Square Foot Garden this season.

I haven’t been very attentive to my garden lately, but that doesn’t mean we won’t be eating out of it in the coming months.

I’m always looking for ways to use and store my garlic. Garlic salt is one of my favourites. The addition of rosemary really makes it pop!

Shallots are one of the easiest things I grow in my garden, with an excellent rate of return.

A few months ago I revealed my plans for a square foot garden. So, how are those plans going?

A look at the tools and equipment inside my yellow gardening bucket.

Potatoes can be planted as soon as the last frosts pass. Find out what to do now to great crop next season!