(VGG) Very Good Gardening Blog
Zoe’s Wellington based blog which covers one new skill a week, relevant to what the weather is doing this week; what to do in your garden, and what plants are exciting to us at this time of year.
Brutal lessons
Are you failing to grow a lemon tree? This long winded explanation is for you!
Running a lawn or gardening franchise
I'm on my soapbox. Very little gardening discussed here
Trimming back extremely overgrown vines or hedges
There’s a knack to this, and it isn’t the easiest. Hedges and vines can be used interchangeably here, it’s the same concept. Let’s dive straight in.
Outcomes from some experiments this season
Spray trials, planting trials, and lots of trimming practice
On hydrangeas
I appreciate that this is a bit of a targeted post! Some of us hate the things. But this post is targeted at you, person who has hydrangeas, but cannot seem to get the timing right for pruning.
More trimming and a weird rose
This week we spent ages trying to work out this one weird rose, without bothering to actually open a rose book, of course.
Give me my Mad Max moment please
If I cannot have a vacuum cleaner sized steamer, I will have a vehicle sized one
Garlic- super extremely complex week here
Week 2: the week where we just poke them into the soil, and gaze lovingly.
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
Week 1 sees us finding, dividing and resting the garlic. Not a huge amount to do, let's start with baby steps