Poor peanut performance
Turns out, peanuts don’t much love being ignored for the entire growing season.
A real look at the garden
An honest look around my garden beds and how they are doing right now.
Getting over garden overwhelm
Gaining a focus on turning around the garden for another season.
Tidying the berry house
The berries are flowering, so it’s time to secure the berry house against birds. If only it were that simple!
Spraying gorses
Gorse is an unfortunate reality of owning farmland in New Zealand. This week I got out and sprayed some.
The spring garden
A seasonal tour of the garden: bed-by-bed.
Clearing the clearing
This week we cut down a bunch of gorse and cleared out a nice spot for a picnic in the bush.
The beauty of weeds
Looking at the beauty provided by some of the weeds on the property, and getting a bit philosophical about it.
Fixing the orchard
How our neglected and overgrown orchard gained redemption.
Lockdown week three: Some updates
A whole lot of updates on things I’ve blogged about before.
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.
