Your permission to kill plants
Every gardener at every skill level kills plants. It’s not because you suck at gardening, but how you respond when a plant dies, matters.
Garlic harvest 2025
Results from my much-smaller 2025 garlic crop.
The garden in winter 2025
A wander around the garden highlights in winter 2025.
Going back to growing garlic
And so it begins again.
How my garden grows
A peek at how the garden is doing going into the main growing season.
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.
A diary of my week
Ever wonder what I do in a week? Well, here’s one week in my life.
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.
Winter gardening in the Far North
It’s time to tidy the strawberries, plant garlic, and prepare for potatoes.
Autumn garden update
As we hurtle towards winter, I’m working away in my garden to get it ready for next summer.
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.
