So I bought flower seeds from Sue Ripley gardening. She has some rareish seeds, including packets of ornamental allium seeds which I've been dreaming of getting for years. #gardening #nzgardeners #flowers
#gardening #nzgardeners #flowers
Today on my blog I'm talking about my basil growing experiment over this summer season.
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https://adventuresofacraftygardener.blogspot.com/2023/03/my-homegrown-basil-experiment.html
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Ooh this month's NZ Gardener just arrived, and they're talking about how to grow your own mushrooms 🍄 #nzgardeners #mushrooms
Tomatoes, raspberries, and black currants picked. Mandarin, lemon, and lime bushes are all watered. I didn't even get time to pull any weeds today.
I spotted heaps of pumpkin fruit growing, and then looked in the freezer to find 4 2L ice cream containers filled with frozen pumpkin pieces from last year 😬 #gardening #nzgardeners #gardeningnz
#gardening #nzgardeners #gardeningNZ
Oh my *another* Dahlia 😅😍
Dahlia "Golden Sceptre"
#dahlia #gardening #nzgardeners #summerflowers #summerbulbs
Another lilly about to blooooom #gardening #nzgardeners #summerbulbs #lillies
#gardening #nzgardeners #summerbulbs #lillies
Mōrena e hoa mā, another beautiful rose in pink with an apricot centre which could be “Compassion”. Light, fresh apple-y smell, everything a rose should be. Have a great day Mastodians. I will. 🪷
#nztwits #garden #gardens #rose #roses #compassion #nzgardeners #Aotearoa #AotearoaNZ
#NZTwits #garden #gardens #rose #roses #compassion #nzgardeners #aotearoa #AotearoaNZ
I don't suppose anyone following #NZGardeners has access to syringes for injecting stump killer straight into the root system of agapanthus?
Finally some progress on the passive tomato/chilli #hydroponic system. Set up a super janky stand for the 200L reservoir and mixed up a batch of 2.2 EC 6.0 pH nutrient. Because I'm watering with Blumats which use very small feed tubes I've also added some Hypochlorous Acid (Athena Cleanse) to the system to reduce buildup of nutrient salts - we'll see how that goes. Now to put in the Blumats!
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#hydroponic #hydroponics #nzgardening #nzgardeners #gardening
NZ gardening folk - suggestions please!! This is the west facing side of the house, and has been much neglected wrt gardens and planting. The side by the house is dry with poor soil. The side by the fence gets good rain and reasonable daytime sun, soil is clay with thin layer of topsoil. Prefer native species but open to other ideas.
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Pink is in season #gardening #nzgardeners #flowers #pink
#gardening #nzgardeners #flowers #pink
The delphiniums are bacckkkk...! #gardening #nzgardeners #flowers #spring #delphiniums
#gardening #nzgardeners #flowers #spring #delphiniums
Surprisingly no damage after the high winds! Just some new blooms 😍 pink is in, apparently 😉 and it's not a gardening post without a tomato update. #firsttoot #nzgardeners #afterthestorm
#firsttoot #nzgardeners #afterthestorm
In garden news, all my tomato plants have flower buds, and one is even flowering. And after looking in one of the vege garden beds, we seem to have 6 pumpkin plants growing now, I only planted 4. #gardennz #nzgardeners
Earlier this week we had a super late frost and my new dahlias got damaged. Luckily they are now sporting new buds, so later this summer I’ll have Cafe Au Lait Rosé flowers 🙂 #nzgardeners #gardening #gardennz
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