HesterB's journal
Member since: Jun 09 | Last seen: Jul 12 | Years gardening: 35 | Organic gardener
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30 Jun 2012
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I haven’t been doing very much in the garden since mdi-summer because i had chronic fatigue from Post Viral Syndrome. Now I am feeling better and i have some energy back. Poor garden-what a mess! Most of last years crops were poor because i didn’t have the energy to feed and water the...Cloudy 12°C / 54°F -
11 Dec 2011Thyme French Summer , Sweet Marjoram , Basil Greek Mini , and Seedling garden
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Rainy 22°C / 72°F
This evening I made up two gifts.
The first was a fruiting Russian Red tomato plant and a Basil Greek Mini plant potted together in a blue ceramic pot.
The other gift is a traditional style ceramic pot planted with another Greek Mini basil plant, a Marjoram plant and 2 French Summer Thyme plants...
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15 Nov 2011Rose garden and Rose Marie Louise
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Rainy 20°C / 68°FNovember is the best month for blooming roses in New Zealand. This year the display has caught me by surprise. I didn’t prune the roses this winter. Except for ‘Birthday Present’, which I always look out for in October, I didn’t notice that the roses had lots of buds. But...
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07 Nov 2011Strawberry Patch garden , Strawberry Barrel , and Container garden
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Cloudy 23°C / 73°F
I had two strawberries ripening in the barrel.
Tonight I was watering and I noticed they are now half strawberries.
Past time to put some netting over.
Losing a few strawberries motivates me to do it.
For some reason I don’t net them up before the first one gets eaten.
I just don’t s...
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29 Oct 2011backyard garden
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Rainy 20°C / 68°F
Today was a glorious sunny Spring Day, after a few cool grey ones.
We had an extra special occurrence in our garden.
In the early afternoon I looked out of our upstairs window and was amazed to see a cloud of flying insects above the trees.
I called out to Mr Box to come and see. Then I realised ...
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14 Oct 2011Dutch Irises and Front garden
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Rainy 16°C / 61°FSeems like it was only a week ago i was wondering where my Dutch irises were and hoping our garden helper hadn’t weeded them out last summer. We have had more rain than usual over the past few days. The Dutch irises were there all along. The rain encouraged them to flower. They grow in a ga...
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14 Oct 2011Shaver Girls and Chooky garden
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Rainy 16°C / 61°F
Day two of Beryl and Ruby’s residence.
I got up before 6.00am this morning, but Beryl and Ruby were already out and about.
They were very settled and roamed about the yard as comfortably as if they’d lived here for weeks.
It was very quiet this morning. I think everyone in the neighbo...
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14 Oct 2011Shaver Girls and Chooky garden
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Rainy 16°C / 61°F
Beryl & Ruby, the Red Shaver hens, arrived on Thursday evening.
I bought them on Trademe earlier in the week but couldn’t pick them up immediately as Mr Box was sick with flu.
The two hens had to sleep in the cardboard box they were transported in as I didn’t have time to arrange ...
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13 Oct 2011Shaver Girls , Chooky garden , and Vincent & Violet
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Cloudy 17°C / 63°FWe have 2 new hens and one less rooster. We used to have 5 hens and a rooster but 3 of our hens died earlier in the year. With the advent of Spring it became obvious that 2 wives was nowhere near enough for Vincent the Splash Orpington Rooster. Violet got badly scratched as a result of excessive ...
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12 Oct 2011Broccoli Italian mini and Seedling garden
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Poor sad little broccoli plants. They were sown a year ago and never planted out. Must be a tough variety. They survived in a punnet in the glasshouse all this time and even produced some tiny heads. I can’t bring myself to tip them out and it’s really too late to plant them now. I guess they can...Rainy 17°C / 63°F
