Caring for garlic
Avoiding rust, fertilising, mulching, and harvesting scapes. Everything you need to get your garlic through the season, to a good harvest.
Everything I know about planting garlic
When to plant garlic in New Zealand depends on your garden’s climate. Here’s what nearly a decade of growing in the Far North has taught me.
Garlic harvest 2025
Results from my much-smaller 2025 garlic crop.
Going back to growing garlic
And so it begins again.
October in the garden
It’s heating up this month and there’s plenty to get growing in the garden!
September in the garden
Heading into spring the garden jobs begin to build up. Find out what needs doing in September.
July in the garden
Winter might be upon us, but there’s still plenty to do in the garden.
All the alliums
The garlic harvest is in – and for sale!
Giving up on garlic
The first half of this year’s garlic is up, and the results are… not great.
Aglio e olio with green garlic
The simplest and most satisfying thing to do with fresh green garlic. Every garlic grower should know this one.
Spring updates
Things keep ticking along here at The Outpost, so how are all those projects going?
An update post
A collection of updates about eggs, chickens, worms, weather, and garlic.
2022 Garlic harvest (part 1)
Four of our six garlic varieties are out of the ground! See how it went!
A mid-season update on the garlic
After last year’s disaster season, how is the garlic growing in 2022?
Five things I did this week
It’s been an unexpectedly dry week, so we got some things done.
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.
