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.
4 things to consider before buying fruit trees
You’ve finally got a place to plant fruit trees – but there’s dozens at the garden centre! Which one do you buy?
Apple harvest
Three of our heritage apple trees produced small harvests this year.
The shopping spree
I spent my 40th birthday buying and planting trees. 16 year old me would be horrified.
Five things I did this week
It’s been an unexpectedly dry week, so we got some things done.
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.