Summer garden plans
The plans I’ve got for my garden over the summer of 2025-26.
Spring updates
Things keep ticking along here at The Outpost, so how are all those projects going?
Getting over garden overwhelm
Gaining a focus on turning around the garden for another season.
On patience
Time marches on and if you’re patient enough, it delights you.
Where are the avocados?
We have a lot of trees at The Outpost, but we don’t have any avocado. It’s not just because we’re saving to build a house.
Why I don’t keep bees
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.
Finding the flower bed
My gardening mojo is coming back after the scorching summer and I rediscovered my flowerbed.
It’s raining, it’s pouring
I love rain, but I’m running out of clothes and I need to mow the lawns.
Garden of smiles
I’m slowly learning plants don’t have to be “useful” to be worthwhile. So this week, I planted a flower garden just to put a smile on my face.
The lazy woman’s garden
Spending less time in the garden, and still harvesting from it by letting nature do the gardening for me.
Making hay (while the sun shines)
I’ve recently begun reading a couple of books by Ruth Stout. I’m so inspired that I’ve decided to start a new project.
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.
