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DIY Plantman This page is to help you manage and grow your own garden. The healthiest food is grown in your garden

It may be winter right now but you can still plant a bunch of veggies and herbs. Alot of leafy greens and alliums actual...
16/06/2026

It may be winter right now but you can still plant a bunch of veggies and herbs. Alot of leafy greens and alliums actually thrive in the colder weather and you will find that they will got to seed alot slower!

It’s not too late to get yours in the garden now! Just be sure to use a mulch layer to help keep the soil temperature slightly warmer.

It’s around about this time of the year that we can prepare to plant our garlic in the garden. Here are a few tips for w...
11/06/2026

It’s around about this time of the year that we can prepare to plant our garlic in the garden.

Here are a few tips for when you plant out yours:

1 - Properly plan and allocate space for them as you won’t be able to use this space until the end of the year.

2 - Diversity is your friend, plant a few varieties to avoid potential spread of disease and loosing your whole crop. One variety may get disease but you will still have a few other ones…. Hopefully.

3 - Space them out. Plant in small blocks away from each other. This will help your plants to grow well with the added benefit of companion planting for both your garlic and other crops that benefit from having alliums nearby.

21/05/2026

Hahahhaha love gardening with the girls. They crack me up! 🤣

19/05/2026

Always entertaining gardening with kids! She is super helpful in the garden but crack me up alot for sure 🤣🤣

You might have noticed I have been absent from posting for a while on this page. That’s because I don’t currently have m...
01/02/2026

You might have noticed I have been absent from posting for a while on this page.

That’s because I don’t currently have my own gardening space. ( Hopefully I will have a space soon ) watch the space.

Because I am not spending time in the garden I have been foraging instead. I have created another page where you can see my foraging shenanigans go give a follow if you are interested in learning more about foraging.

19/01/2026

A broadfork is one of Macos’s go to tools for building healthy soil.

It loosens compacted ground deep down without flipping the soil, keeping microbes where they belong.
This improves airflow, drainage, and nutrient uptake, leading to stronger roots, healthier plants, and easier harvesting.

17/01/2026

Have you ever used a compost aerator? Well Marcos has it as one of his top 3 tools to use in his market farm! It helps turn the compost pile allowing air inside the heap stopping things from going anaerobic and speeding up the breaking down process.

17/01/2026

Marcos who runs a small market farm for some vineyards restaurants on Waiheke Island share some tips and advice on how to prune his tomatoes plants!

17/01/2026

Don’t spray pest insects!!! Instead build a diverse garden that encourages beneficial insects into your space to aid in pollination and pest control! Let’s stop destroying whole ecosystems just to get rid of a ‘pest’

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