Your Garden Coach NZ
Guiding keen new gardeners to become confident vegetable growers no matter the size of your garden or your skill level.
We aim to share tips and tricks to help you grow healthy, nutrient-rich vegetables.
Based in the Central Otago region of New Zealand.
Happy gardening
Your Garden Coach NZ
Autumn Episode 30
A busy week this week… Lots of Autumn tasks coming up.
We welcome back the very talented Leah Evans @mrs.evans.garden Leah gives us a Snapshot of her Autumn garden and she has some inspiring wisdom for us.
Tea - Lemon balm and Sage - a favourite of ours.
NZ Bulbs have partnered with us for the 2nd of 3 Bulb Giveaways - Enter this fabulous competition (open to NZ residents only, Drawn on 3rd May, winner announced in Episode 32) email your entry to coach@yourgardencoach.nz with the answer to the Elephant Garlic question.
Check out @clausdalby for bulb planting inspiration then order your bulbs from @nzbulbs Huge thanks to Paul and Gemma at NZ Bulbs for their generous gift pack
This week in the garden -
Cultivate - 24th & 25th
Sow Root Crops 26th & 27th
Barren period 28th - 3rd May
Garlic - a little bit of knowledge shared. Get planting on 26th and 27th for a bumper crop
Jerusalem Artichokes, ready after the first frost. We give you the heads up to reduce the farts… Such an easy vegetable garden perennial.
see www.healthifyme.com/blog/jerusalem-artichoke
Glossary - Polyculture - A Symphony of Diversity in your garden.
Book Botany for Gardeners By Geoff Hodge Allen and Unwin publishers @allenandunwin
Instagram of the Week and winner of the $20 Kings Seeds voucher @theocallaghanclann what a fabulously colourful vegetable garden!
www.gardenmyths.com - pine needles
Happy gardening
You can contact us at coach@yourgardencoach.nz and follow us on socials @yourgardencoachnz