Citrus care guide
A guide to citrus care and common citrus problems in Aotearoa New Zealand.
5 tips for tidying up your bananas
Just a few things I’ve learned about maintaining a productive banana patch.
Banana farmin
We are officially eating our own home-grown bananas!!
Sponge-top pudding
Use your fruit harvests by making this simple comforting dessert on these dark winter nights.
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
My favourite way to use our apple harvest.
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.
The pursuit of self-sufficiency
We’ve been here a while, so how close are we to being self-sufficient?
Making Nana Retter’s Fruit Cake
Last Christmas I joined a long line of women in my family who have made my great grandmother’s fruit cake.
Project grow-a-mango
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!
Coffee fruit!
The coffee trees have started fruiting!
A selection of limes
I’m up to 5 lime trees. Am I obsessed? How did I get here?
Return of the garden center
On the first day of Level 2, I made a trip to the one place I missed most: the garden center.
A proliferation of pineapples
Life really gave us pineapples this week.
Lazarus lemons
I’ve owned this lemon tree since it was a tiny stick. I’ve not always treated it very well, but now it’s living its best life.
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.
