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Garlic harvest 2025

Garlic harvest 2025

by Kat | Dec 14, 2025 | Life

Results from my much-smaller 2025 garlic crop.

2022 Garlic harvest (part 1)

2022 Garlic harvest (part 1)

by Kat | Dec 18, 2022 | Life

Four of our six garlic varieties are out of the ground! See how it went!

Harvesting and storing potatoes

Harvesting and storing potatoes

by Kat | Apr 10, 2022 | Autumn—Ngahuru, Grow, Summer—Raumati, Top posts

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

It’shallot of shallots

by Kat | Jan 23, 2022 | Grow, Summer—Raumati, Winter—Hōtoke

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

Garlic harvest 2020

Garlic harvest 2020

by Kat | Jan 17, 2021 | Life

Now the garlic is out of the ground, I take a look at how I did this year.

Makin’ bacon

Makin’ bacon

by Kat | Oct 4, 2020 | Cook, Preservation

When life gives you a pig, you make bacon. A straightforward home-curing process from shot to bacon buttie.

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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.

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