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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

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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