(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.
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.
The ground rules of Tomatoes
The basics of tomato growing in Aotearoa are lost on the majority of us. Some simple tips to set you straight.
A slightly more thorough 'to do' list for Spring
What we are up to, and the considerations behind it
Creating a butterfly garden
Attract butterflies to your garden with some simple tweaks- or go all out and dedicate an area
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