Pruning fruit trees
Everything you need to know about pruning stone and pip fruit trees: equipment, technique, tree shapes, and the golden rules.
May in the garden
Winter planting begins, and it’s time to start tidying up your patch from the summer months.
April in the garden
Establishing winter brassica, securing seed garlic, tiding up strawberries, and harvesting pip fruit.
March in the garden
Planting begins for cooler months and harvest continues for summer crops. Time to prune the stone fruit too.
Three things my Dad taught me
This Father’s Day, I’m looking at the values I gained as my father’s daughter.
Planting comfrey under fruit trees
Organic farmers know comfrey as a ‘dynamic accumulator’ – bringing deeply buried nutrients to the surface to feed my fruit trees.
4 things to consider before buying fruit trees
You’ve finally got a place to plant fruit trees—but there’s dozens at the garden centre! Which one do you buy?
Apple crumble
The best use for an apple harvest, in my opinion. A simple, reliable crumble that never disappoints.
Apple harvest
Three of our heritage apple trees produced small harvests this year.
On patience
Time marches on and if you’re patient enough, it delights you.
My happy place
3 years ago I wrote about my frustration at my new garden. Today, it is my happy place.
The shopping spree
I spent my 40th birthday buying and planting trees. 16 year old me would be horrified.
The banana plantation
An update on the patch of bananas we planted back in December 2019.
Fixing the orchard
How our neglected and overgrown orchard gained redemption.
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.
