(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.
Oh goodness!
A troublesome site to garden, which gets blasted by cold sea winds; some natural fungicide options and Koromiko Gardening has a plant sale on Sunday.
Garlic- super extremely complex week here
Week 2: the week where we just poke them into the soil, and gaze lovingly.
Tidying berries
Don't be put off by the messiness, the wait times, the tiny canes... Berries are great and easy to grow!
A bit of resilience
Food resilience as we learn to grow a bit more, mental resilience in the face of climate change, and an interview with Linda Stopforth, someone who is fantastic at addressing both of those things.
Soil Health for Happy Vegetables
A very basic reminder and a re-orienting of your behaviours (maybe!)
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
Organic lawn care for the cheap and lazy
A love letter from myself to the best web page I have ever read, a 'how to' for the rest of us.
Another week of insanity over here
Growing crops we don't eat, and how wasps don't care how super chill and friendly we are, so we made them go live in a lab somewhere.
Creating a legacy with fruit trees
Getting the site right the first time is your first hurdle, but anyone can do that part. Patience is your biggest hurdle... and most of us struggle with this part!
Trimming- the nuts and bolts of your final prune of the year
Now we have the theory down, reducing, re shaping and encouraging growth are all covered this week.
The final trim
What will you see when you look out your window, or walk through your garden, all Winter? It is time to do the trimming, results of which will last us until Spring....
Some cool things happening in Wellington this weekend
Want a weekend outing to talk gardens? Try a few of our community garden open days.
Fungus, rots and IPM
Integrated Pest Management- a code for "responsible gardening," a long chain of thoughts I have recently taken action on.
