Growing peanuts in New Zealand
What I’ve learned about growing peanuts over the last three seasons.
May in the garden
Winter planting begins, and it’s time to start tidying up your patch from the summer months.
March in the garden
Planting begins for cooler months and harvest continues for summer crops. Time to prune the stone fruit too.
July in the garden
Winter might be upon us, but there’s still plenty to do in the garden.
Seed saving
How to collect, clean, store, and swap seeds from your garden. The skill that makes gardening significantly cheaper, and more resilient.
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.
The International Year of Millets
The UN has declared 2023 the International Year of Millets, so I tried growing some millet.
Vegetables that pay off
All things considered, what vegetables deliver the best returns on investment in the garden?
Five things I did this week
It’s been an unexpectedly dry week, so we got some things done.
The berry house
We’ve finally planted our collection of cane berries into the ground!
It’shallot of shallots
Shallots are one of the easiest things I grow in my garden, with an excellent rate of return.
Everything I know about planting garlic
Everything I’ve learned about getting a successful garlic harvest in the ground.
Garlic harvest 2020
Now the garlic is out of the ground, I take a look at how I did this year.
The garlic bed
An update on how the garlic is growing, and how you can help your own crop do well this year.
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.
