Fungi friends
Following a huge rain, a bunch of mushrooms and fungi have begun to bloom.
The giant compost pile
Finding myself with many piles of rotting organic matter, I build my first hot compost pile.
How does the garden grow?
A spring update from the first year in our new garden.
A buttload of mulch
I got an offer I couldn’t refuse: a giant ball of mouldy hay.
The garlic bed
An update on how the garlic is growing, and how you can help your own crop do well this year.
Strawberry fields forever
My imagination ran away without me and now I have incredible strawberry beds.
Interpreting my soil test
What do the numbers on a soil test actually mean? How I interpreted mine, including macro and micro-nutrients, and what I’m doing about it.
Taking soil samples
Taking soil samples and sending them away to the lab for a soil test.
I love my worms
Our worms are probably the animal that pulls their weight best here at Orotere. They take my snotty tissues and coffee grounds, and turn them into black gold.
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.
