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Yesterday, I noticed that the Myoga ginger was flowering again. I'm supposed to be harvesting these just before they flower, but its the flowers that remind me that its time. This year I used a slightly different recipe from the same book, 'Japanese pickled vegetables', by Machiko Tateno. Last...

Here are some pics of my Myoga ginger. I didnt bother doing one for the plant itself cos it pretty much looks like any other ginger. As you can see the flower buds are insignificant compared to those that have flowers at the top of the stalks This is going to be a tasty treat in a couple of...

I managed to keep a pineapple plant alive over winter inside but now its looking odd. It looks like its about to fall over. leaves are all still bright green except for the very bottom ones which do have brown edges and it seems to have a small 'pup' growing up along side it. I'm hoping that...

Hi, Last year I got my old wire back fence replaced with a wooden one and stapled my favourite trellis- concrete re-enforcing mesh up and then planted an Iceberg rose.....it isnt doing too well and I am going to have to dig it up and plant it somewhere else. The walnut tree is in the neighbor's...

This is the second year my sweet persimmons have fruited well. Last year I dried one to see how it would turn out, it was delicious, so this year, I decided that the birds could only have the ones at the very top of the tree that I could not reach from my 'ladder'- 2-300l drum. I find it is more...

I bought myself a new years present in 2017- my very own bees to go in my very own hive. At first, I thought I might be lucky enough to catch a swarm and waited...almost too long before I realised that it wasnt going to happen so I had better hurry up and buy some. Its been an interesting...

Hi, I live in the South Waikato, New Zealand. I restarted my gardening a number of years ago with a Permaculture garden a la Linda woodrow with a dome chicken tractor which made me round beds to plant into. That went well for the first 18 months but I started running into problems with it. In...