Tag: gardening
Planting Time
Autumn is right time to extend pa harakeke’s plantings – “Why are you doing this?” a visiting cycle tourist asked. “As reciprocity for being part of the biosphere,” could be my answer.
Blossom Bounty
We have a spectacular crop of blossoms this year with the promise of a bountiful fruit crop as well as the present joy of the blooms.
Breaking ranks
Vegetable gardens with long rows of identical plants look tidy but are they the best approach? I’m trying something different.
Level 2 here we (some of us) come
We are shortly going to Level 2 (sorry Auckland, who is not). I can go to the garden centre! And invite friends round. And maybe go skiing. Nothing like deprivation to drive a feeling of reward.
Snakes, ladders and daffodils
Living through COVID is like real-life playing snakes and ladders. Both at the big scale – when will we climb the ladder out of this pit? And at the day by day scale…
Singing as meditation
In a lockdown we all need new activities to focus on. I’m practicing singing, as well as continuing to garden.
When in doubt, garden
I learned the importance of gardening from my father and its now an integral part of home building for me. The positive change over the years is hugely satisfying, despite the constant battles waged against possums, hares, deer, hedghogs, rabbits…
Eliminate…eliminate…
Controlling rabbits has parallels with controlling COVID. It is hard and the subject of control expands at an exponential rate. Elimination appears attractive but is a challenging goal.