The garden wētā

My runner beans have been attacked constantly throughout summer. At first it was just the tips of the runners being nibbled off, then the baby bean pods were chewed, and I suspect that the culprits are also responsible for the missing leaves and fruit from my strawberries too. When watering I looked up the top…

Garden Bragging Nov 2021

Its been a year since moving into the new flat, and that meant that I was able to get gardening much earlier. After harvesting the last of the peas and pumpkins and removing the dead or dying remains of the plants I neglected the gardens for the winter. September I weeded the hardy winter weeds…

Garden bragging

Last year I moved flats in late spring and the new flat that I’m in has some small garden beds. Sadly they had plants already growing in them but my landlord said I could have free reign over them as long as I left their cumquat tree alone. So I went at it!

Sticky!

Its about time that I made another post, so today I’m introducing the resident stick insect, affectionately known as Sticky.