Given the significant bout of inclement weather continuing this weekend, I shall be remaining inside. This provides me with a wonderful opportunity to finish packing up all the seeds scattered stacked overwhelming the dining room table and cataloguing them. Because I’m a geek. Well, not only for that reason. There’s no point in going through [...]
Seeds of Delight: 28 May
May 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
It feels like it’s been raining here forever. Well, a week feels like forever when you’re couped up inside. And what happens when I’m couped up inside? I spend far too much time trawling the fertile fields of the internet looking for a little nutrition and a whole lotta pretty. Our beautiful main image of [...]
Raumati South Wetlands Planting Day
May 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Garlic Planted
May 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Ya’know how they say plant garlic on the shortest day, harvest on the longest? Well, that’s never really worked for me. I always got such tiny, squiddly little bulbs that I simply couldn’t be bothered using them for cooking. Last year, when I left my bulbs in the ground longer, I got better results. And [...]
Friday Seeds of Delight: 21 May (on a Saturday)
May 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Kapiti’s wetlands need you! 3 great community events coming up
May 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The world needs wetlands Wetlands are considered the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. They provide a habitat and enormous food source for fish, birds and other animals. These areas support the greatest concentrations of bird life of any habitat in New Zealand and support far more species that a comparable forest area. Native fish [...]
Friday Seeds of Delight: 14 May
May 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
So it is my firm intention that every Friday I post some of the fascinating little gems of info, photos and links that have delighted me that week, discovered in the wonderful garden of knowledge that is the internet. For those lucky enough to own a digital SLR and love getting all macro, but can’t [...]
Pestilence and disease
May 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Holidays, no matter how wonderful, take their toll. Two weeks in Melbourne was amazing and I’ve got lots of great pictures and posts to cover that over the next couple of days. But the wonderful/sinister side of eating out so often is that nutrition gets all out of whack – restaurants aren’t known for their [...]
