Does your vegetable garden feel overwhelming?
Mine too! Here’s how I’ve learned to feel the overwhelm and harvest food anyway. Get unstuck and make your vegetable garden grow again.
When to plant potatoes: a step-by-step guide
Potato planting begins for most of New Zealand in September. Learn when’s best for your garden, and tips to get the best out of your plants.
Growing food from kitchen scraps
You don’t need to buy seeds to start growing food. Your weekly grocery shop is full of ways to get your garden pumping.
Māra kūmara
This year I’ve re-introduced kūmara into my garden.
Growing peanuts in New Zealand
What I’ve learned about growing peanuts over the last three seasons.
Growing paprika
Paprika is made from specific varieties of capsicum, and this summer, I grew and processed my own.
5 tips for tidying up your bananas
Practical tips for maintaining a banana clump. Hard-learned lessons from someone who’s ruined a t-shirt.
Banana farmin
We are officially eating our own home-grown bananas!!
Make your own pruning sealer
Seal and protect fresh wounds on trees with this no-fuss pruning paste made from common household ingredients.
Testing the coffee beans
After a recent workshop to learn how to process my own coffee, I put my own coffee beans to the test.
Vegetables that pay off
All things considered, what vegetables deliver the best returns on investment in the garden?
Harvesting and storing potatoes
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.
It’shallot of shallots
Shallots are one of the easiest things I grow in my garden, with an excellent rate of return.
Square foot gardening
Low rainfall in summer each year means my garden always suffers. This year, I’m planning to share our water with one bed that really pumps… and grows everything.
How to grow ginger (Zingibar officiale)
A surprisingly simple and satisfying little crop to grow. Find out how to take a small piece from the supermarket and turn it into a year’s supply of ginger!
About Kat
Kat is a gardener and purrveyor of Kat's Nip. Most Sundays she writes about her life on her lifestyle block in Te Hiku (Far North), New Zealand.
