Set your seedlings up for success by applying some botanical fundamentals while planting out or moving them in your vegetable garden.

Mine too! Here’s how I’ve learned to feel the overwhelm and harvest food anyway. Get unstuck and make your vegetable garden grow again.

Can you grow the potatoes sprouting in the pantry? How we choose our seed potatoes, buy the right amount, and prepare for planting season.

Potato planting begins for most of New Zealand in September. Learn when’s best for your garden, and tips to get the best out of your plants.

Avoiding rust, fertilising, mulching, and harvesting scapes. Everything you need to get your garlic through the season, to a good harvest.

You don’t need to buy seeds to start growing food. Your weekly grocery shop is full of ways to get your garden pumping.

This year I’ve re-introduced kūmara into my garden.

What I’ve learned about growing peanuts over the last three seasons.

Organic farmers know comfrey as a ‘dynamic accumulator’ – bringing deeply buried nutrients to the surface to feed my fruit trees.

Seal and protect fresh wounds on trees with this no-fuss pruning paste made from common household ingredients.

All things considered, what vegetables deliver the best returns on investment in the garden?

One of the worst things that could happen to a garlic grower has struck us this year: rust. So, what will I do?

Everything you need to know about pruning stone and pip fruit trees: equipment, technique, tree shapes, and the golden rules.

Does companion planting actually work? Why don’t the lists agree? The science behind which plants help each other, and which ones don’t.

Everything you need to know about caring for citrus in New Zealand. When and what to fertilise with, sprays, pruning, and common pests and disease.

Polistes paper wasps are introduced pests in New Zealand gardens. Or are they?

Are green caterpillars destroying your brassicas? Here’s every trick from organic to toxic to rid yourself of white cabbage butterfly.

What is healthy soil? And what is organic matter? Learn the basics of soil and how to improve yours using the resources you have at hand.

All you need to know about worm farming. From sourcing worms to harvesting vermicast. Works at any scale, including under your kitchen sink!

How to collect, clean, store, and swap seeds from your garden. The skill that makes gardening significantly cheaper, and more resilient.

You’ve finally got a place to plant fruit trees—but there’s dozens at the garden centre! Which one do you buy?

Set your seedlings up for success by applying some botanical fundamentals while planting out or moving them in your vegetable garden.

A decade ago, I started on my gardening journey in a collection of pots on an inner-city balcony. Here are the things I wish I knew then.

So you want to learn to grow stuff? Here are my favourite gardening resources to follow and learn from.

Slugs in the seedlings, caterpillars in the kale? How to spot the usual garden pest suspects and deal with them naturally.

When should you use seeds, and when are seedlings a better bet? Some crops have a preference.

Need to get some seeds growing indoors in trays? Here’s some tips from my garden.

Between sowing seeds in trays, and transplanting them outdoors, they need pricking out. Find out what that means and how to do it.

Gardening isn’t all butterflies and rainbows. And even when it is, that isn’t always a good thing.

Creating a map of my garden using GardenBox 3D, and how I’m using it to plan my upcoming gardening adventures.

There’s a secret under your feet when you walk through my garden, and it’s quietly improving our soils.

Practical tips for maintaining a banana clump. Hard-learned lessons from someone who’s ruined a t-shirt.

When was the last time you lifted up your compost bin to see what it’s been up to? What will you find if you do?

Some edible flowers you can get easily established in your garden. Ready and fresh for any special occasion.

It’s pruning season but my tools are rusty and I can’t afford new ones. So I tried cleaning them up with vinegar.

Some of my favourite pieces of equipment for taking your garden to the next level.

My garden shed is (once again) a mess! Time to tidy it up.

Installing some new worm farms directly in the garden to continuously improve a poorly-performing garden bed.

The worm farm is full and ready for a re-set! This week I emptied our worm farm all out, then filled it back up again.

A look at the most-useful gardening tools and equipment in my gardening bucket.

We use a few different cloche hoops are an invaluable tool in the garden. A look at what we use and how it holds up.

Spending less time in the garden, and still harvesting from it by letting nature do the gardening for me.

Finding myself with many piles of rotting organic matter, I build my first hot compost pile.

In 2019 we planted six banana stems and now we can barely keep up with them!

See how things have changed, and what we've learned.

I began with dreams of being a garlic supplier. They were dashed by rust.

I gave up on garlic, but garlic didn't give up on me.

The season I spent playing with Square Foot Gardening.

I grew a huge amount of food in a fraction of my total garden space.

A tiny stick received for Christmas became a gateway to citrus growing.

See the collection, and what we do with it