The best-laid plans
Find out what I’ve got planned for the 2024-25 growing season in my garden.
The second peanut harvest
Results from my second season growing peanuts.
Seed saving
How to collect, clean, store, and swap seeds from your garden. The skill that makes gardening significantly cheaper, and more resilient.
Summer update
A few of the things I’ve been up to over my summer break.
The International Year of Millets
The UN has declared 2023 the International Year of Millets, so I tried growing some millet.
Autumn garden update
As we hurtle towards winter, I’m working away in my garden to get it ready for next summer.
My first peanut harvest
My first peanut harvest is in!
Five things I did this week
It’s been an unexpectedly dry week, so we got some things done.
It’shallot of shallots
Shallots are one of the easiest things I grow in my garden, with an excellent rate of return.
The lazy woman’s garden
Spending less time in the garden, and still harvesting from it by letting nature do the gardening for me.
My favourite herbs
A look into how I grow, and cook with a selection of some of the herbs growing at The Outpost.
How does the garden grow?
A spring update from the first year in our new garden.
My brilliant broccoli
This year my broccoli has really pumped. Here’s what I did, and what I learned along the way.
Walking to the mailbox
Some observations and musings on a long, mostly-up hill walk.
Lurverly luffas
The story of my failure to grow very many luffas.
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.
