The garden in winter 2025
A wander around the garden highlights in winter 2025.
Tidying up the catnip
A peek behind-the-scenes at how I grow wickedly-strong catnip.
Testing the coffee beans
After a recent workshop to learn how to process my own coffee, I put my own coffee beans to the test.
Coffee fruit!
The coffee trees have started fruiting!
Planting leeks
It’s time to plant leeks! There’s a bit of a trick to harvesting a good leek, so I thought I’d take a moment to show you how.
5 veges you can grow without screwing up
My top-5 most fool-proof vegetables that anyone can grow.
My brilliant broccoli
This year my broccoli has really pumped. Here’s what I did, and what I learned along the way.
Should I buy seeds, or seedlings?
When should you use seeds, and when are seedlings a better bet? Some crops have a preference.
Sowing seeds for transplant
Need to get some seeds growing indoors in trays? Here’s some tips from my garden.
Pricking out seedlings
Between sowing seeds in trays, and transplanting them outdoors, they need pricking out. Find out what that means and how to do it.
Direct-sowing guide
Direct sowing is spreading seed in the place you want to grow it. This is the best way of getting good results for some crops. Find out which ones!
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.
