Five things I did this week
It’s been an unexpectedly dry week, so we got some things done.
Growing past my biggest failure
Last year, my garlic crop failed big and hard. This year, I’m nervous and more subdued about planting again.
Garlic and rosemary salt
Home-grown garlic salt with rosemary. One of the best ways to store and use a garlic harvest.
Five things I did this summer
A catch-up looking at the things I’ve been up to over the summer break.
Garlic development
The garlic should be ready for harvest… but is it?
The spring garden
A seasonal tour of the garden: bed-by-bed.
The dreaded garlic rust
One of the worst things that could happen to a garlic grower has struck us this year: rust. So, what will I do?
Garden time
A bed-by-bed tour of the winter vege garden.
Garlic growing 2021: the experiments
Each year I experiment with new garlic varieties to see if they’re worth adding to my “garlic collection”. This year I’m trying 3: Russian Red, Spanish Red, and Kakanui.
The lazy woman’s garden
Spending less time in the garden, and still harvesting from it by letting nature do the gardening for me.
Garlic harvest 2020
Now the garlic is out of the ground, I take a look at how I did this year.
Piggy grumps
What do you do when a pig gets into your garden? Well, I have a bit of experience with that one…
How does the garden grow?
A spring update from the first year in our new garden.
A buttload of mulch
I got an offer I couldn’t refuse: a giant ball of mouldy hay.
Makin’ bacon
When life gives you a pig, you make bacon. A straightforward home-curing process from shot to bacon buttie.
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.
