Planning Kat’s Garden with Kat’s Garden Guide
This year’s garden planning also involved writing a book to make it easier for all Kiwis to plan and maintain their vegetable gardens.
Caring for garlic
Avoiding rust, fertilising, mulching, and harvesting scapes. Everything you need to get your garlic through the season, to a good harvest.
Everything I know about planting garlic
When to plant garlic in New Zealand depends on your garden’s climate. Here’s what nearly a decade of growing in the Far North has taught me.
The dangers of weeding
Gardening isn’t all butterflies and rainbows. And even when it is, that isn’t always a good thing.
Another year in the berry house
The annual task of tidying up the berry house is upon me!
Summer update
A few of the things I’ve been up to over my summer break.
In-ground worm farming
Installing some new worm farms directly in the garden to continuously improve a poorly-performing garden bed.
Getting over garden overwhelm
Gaining a focus on turning around the garden for another season.
Finding the flower bed
My gardening mojo is coming back after the scorching summer and I rediscovered my flowerbed.
Five things I did this summer
A catch-up looking at the things I’ve been up to over the summer break.
Lockdown week two: feeling down, gardening anyway
During the second week of lockdown, I’m feeling my anxiety creep back up. But I know being in my garden helps.
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.
