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Some quick tips to make your garden substantially more impressive
Some quick tips to make your garden substantially more impressive

Have guests over? Have you talked up your gardening prowess? These reframes will help you to make even the biggest of failures something to celebrate

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Making do with what we've been given
Making do with what we've been given

And doing a lot of fixing up

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Bam! Autumn
Bam! Autumn

Are you cold? I am cold

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Outcomes from some experiments this season
Outcomes from some experiments this season

Spray trials, planting trials, and lots of trimming practice

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That beautiful, overflowing cottage garden
That beautiful, overflowing cottage garden

And some thoughts on how to make it work better next year

Do high fences make good neighbours?
Do high fences make good neighbours?

The people of Reddit cheer! This is a Tree Law post.

One year's seeding makes for 7 year's weeding
One year's seeding makes for 7 year's weeding

Saving seeds (for all of the various reasons)

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Garlic- super extremely complex week here
Garlic- super extremely complex week here

Week 2: the week where we just poke them into the soil, and gaze lovingly.

Are you all ready with your broad beans?
Are you all ready with your broad beans?

Week 2: Go get 'er done!

Grow broad beans with me!
Grow broad beans with me!

Have you ever wanted a step by step for growing plants in Wellington? Here it is! And we're starting with an easy one- let's grow some broad beans.

Garlic - sourcing and prepping
Garlic - sourcing and prepping

Week 1 sees us finding, dividing and resting the garlic. Not a huge amount to do, let's start with baby steps

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The magnolias are *too* abundant
The magnolias are *too* abundant

Here is the latest champagne problem: the magnolias are too abundant, too beautiful, too floral, and they keep dropping their enormous petals, so we have to pick them up.