Eat more fruit with this one weird trick
Harvest time just felt like work, until I stumbled upon this stupidly-simple trick that most people can do in under a minute.
Gran Shirley’s Cauliflower and Pineapple Pickle
Years in the making. Literally, because growing the cauliflower took that long. Gran Shirley’s pickle was worth the wait.
Banana farmin
We are officially eating our own home-grown bananas!!
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?
Planning a miniature food forest
I’ve been thinking and scheming – and I think I’ve come up with a plan for our first area of ‘food forest’.
The Little Free Mobile Garden Centre
This year I had a a quiet moment of inspiration that spun into something really quite special at Christmas.
What do we do with a broken shadehouse?
After a big storm recently, we’ve had to re-evaluate what we do with our shadehouse.
Lockdown week three: Some updates
A whole lot of updates on things I’ve blogged about before.
A proliferation of pineapples
Life really gave us pineapples this week.
What’s in the greenhouse?
A look at a few of the plants I’m growing in the greenhouse.
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.
