Our fruit bushes have been an abysmal failure. Our flop crop in gardening parlance. There is a single reason for this dreadful state of affairs. They come with fluffy white tails and have the capability to sit very still when two basset hounds are surveying the... One of the greatest delights of this autumn is that we have some wonderful colours appearing in the garden. It makes such a contrast to the evergreen of the native bush. Although our trees are mere babies they have done well to establish themselves in the pretty dry... It’s not quite an Indian summer but we’ve been enjoying three consecutive days of sunshine. Wonderful weather for topping up the potager. I’m so excited by the fennel right now. It’s growing bigger and stronger every day. Harvest is only... A high pressure ridge is sitting over New Zealand’s north island at the moment. This is bringing us wonderful tomato ripening weather. It’s a relief as I was about to use the secret method of ripening your tomatoes my Dad sent to me. It was the... I watered the potager last night for the first time in a while. With all the rain and heavy dew we’ve been having the ground has stayed pretty moist. Sun was a great feeling today to warm us up after the southerly wind but most of all because my salad crops... 