plants for sale
I'm posting this on behalf of a friend who lives at the Brook Valley Holiday Park and has to leave in a few days. She has all these plants which she can't take with her so is putting them up for sale or for a donation.
* 16 geraniums 5-50 cm, mostly pink
• +10 karamu
• 11 Chilean guavas/NZ cranberry, cuttings
• +100 grapefruit 3-5 cm average grown from seed
• 50 feijoas PB5s, grown from seed of large feijoas.
• Few celery 6 seedling pack punnets
• Few parsley 6 seedling pack punnets
• 9 strawberry 6 pack seedling punnets
• 4 avocado 10 cm
• 13 apricots, about 10 cm high grown from kernel
• About 100 Italian strawberries - small ones with lots of runners
• 20 comfrey
• Rhubarb roots
• Arrowroot tubers.
• +50 loquots, max 10 cm, grown from seed
* 100 apples grown from seed mostly heirloom varieties up to 1 m high
I'm being evicted Sunday 6th August from the Brook Valley Holiday Park and need to declutter my plants ,
Please text only Pam Mander 027.389.7491 (Reception is unreliable)
What's your favourite tomato recipe?
Kia ora neighbours. We know your tomato plants are still growing, but we're looking ahead to the harvest already! If you've got a family recipe for tomatoes, we'd love to see it and maybe publish it in our magazine to share with our readers. Send your recipe to mailbox@nzgardener.co.nz, and if we use it in the mag, you will receive a free copy of our February 2025 issue.
Poll: Should all neighbours have to contribute to improvements?
An Auckland court has ruled a woman doesn’t have to contribute towards the cost of fixing a driveway she shares with 10 neighbours.
When thinking about fences, driveways or tree felling, for example, do you think all neighbours should have to pay if the improvements directly benefit them?
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83.3% Yes
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14.3% No
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2.4% Other - I'll share below
Live Q&A: Garden maintenance with Crewcut
This Wednesday, we're having another Neighbourly Q&A session. This time with John Bracewell from Crewcut.
John Bracewell, former Black Caps coach turned Franchisee Development Manager and currently the face of Crewcut’s #Movember campaign, knows a thing or two about keeping the grass looking sharp—whether it’s on a cricket pitch or in your backyard!
As a seasoned Crewcut franchisee, John is excited to answer your lawn and gardening questions. After years of perfecting the greens on the field, he's ready to share tips on how to knock your garden out of the park. Let's just say he’s as passionate about lush lawns as he is about a good game of cricket!
John is happy to answer questions about lawn mowing, tree/hedge trimming, tidying your garden, ride on mowing, you name it! He'll be online on Wednesday, 27th of November to answer them all.
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