Motueka Community Garden

01/10/2026

Pruning currants makes the wickedest difference to the amount and quality of fruit. Left unpruned, the harvests become increasingly pathetic - too much old unproductive wood!

01/10/2026

Here are my 6 baseline strategies for working with your weeds. These strategies suit all the cruisy weeds, and many of the tricky weeds as well - though not all of them. We'll dive deeper into the tricky guys next month.

01/10/2026

Great advice here.

The October vegie patch is pretty dam exciting with seedling raising in full swing and crops boosting away in the warming soil and air. Don't rush into planting summer crops on the first fine day! Its hard, I know, but wait it out until soil temperatures are ideal.

31/08/2026

There's so much cool stuff to do in the garden right now, so much prettiness, you want to be out there every spare moment.

31/08/2026

Though we curse and lament them - damn weeds!, it's our gardening habits that keep them coming back. Like a record with a scratch, we're stuck in a weedy rut - there is another way!

01/08/2026

https://ediblebackyard.co.nz/august-in-the-vegie-patch/

01/05/2026

Harvest kumara, warm-up worm farms, prep asparagus for winter, plan new plantings, and lets not forget the heart of the operation – tis the perfect season for compost making.

01/05/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18gvkcqNjK/

For the longest time slugs and snails perplexed me. For every other pest I had a solution that got to the heart of the matter – it was the way I was feeding soil and plants that caused the pest, or there weren't enough predators, but for snails I relied on