Pruning fruit trees
Everything you need to know about pruning stone and pip fruit trees: equipment, technique, tree shapes, and the golden rules.
Planting comfrey under fruit trees
Organic farmers know comfrey as a ‘dynamic accumulator’ – bringing deeply buried nutrients to the surface to feed my fruit trees.
My happy place
3 years ago I wrote about my frustration at my new garden. Today, it is my happy place.
The shopping spree
I spent my 40th birthday buying and planting trees. 16 year old me would be horrified.
Fixing the orchard
How our neglected and overgrown orchard gained redemption.
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.
