Eden Living Garden

Eden Living Garden Growing spray free food is not hard and is so much better for you. Let me plant your garden or give Hi my name is Maria. Inspiring beautiful spaces at your home.

Formally I was the National Garden Consultant for Palmers, NZ's largest retail garden centre from 2011 - 2015. Answering gardening questions for their online forum and monthly public speaking at their events in different locations. I loved sharing garden design, planning your space and using sustainable resources to collectively improve the environment for growing food. My love of the outdoors, fr

agrance, foliage and seasonal colour shows in my designs as I creativity plan family spaces. A mix of edible and ornamental as a complete property solution. Having 5 children (most of them grown and young adults) has helped me with designing family gardens. I know first hand the importance of including spaces that work well and even include the family dogs. Engage me to design your garden to include privacy trees, shelter, flowering and foliage shrubs, perennials, herbs and fruit trees. Learn simple time saving techniques to grow vegetables yourself with my eBook - Easy Edible Gardens. Complete garden installation with crop rotation guide available. Planting service from design is also available. Taking care of you.

Oh the gorgeous sun was shining so bright today ☀️.A consultation for install of raised veggie beds and ongoing maintena...
21/07/2022

Oh the gorgeous sun was shining so bright today ☀️.

A consultation for install of raised veggie beds and ongoing maintenance of their veggie patches in Kerikeri today.

This area will have a 6m x 6m space with two large garden boxes, an iron bath clad with timber and some potatoe bags to grow a variety of yummy food on their wish list.

It was so sweet their young son was part of chatting about what he would like to grow to eat. All noted down and will be added as the season progresses along with the companion plants to bring beneficial insects and drive away the pests.

I’ll post updates once the job is completed.

Loving the fresh picked produce from my garden. Even after all this recent rain she is still producing well 🤩.I’ve poure...
20/07/2022

Loving the fresh picked produce from my garden. Even after all this recent rain she is still producing well 🤩.

I’ve poured some good smelly liquid feed on today now the worst of the rain seems to be over.

Fish caught from Paihia
Comfrey from the garden
Seaweed from the beach
Water from the sky!

Feeding your garden makes all the difference to growing big sized fresh veggies.

How are you doing? Seriously 😔 are you doing okay? I’ve found great solace in my gardens over the last few weeks with th...
24/11/2021

How are you doing?

Seriously 😔 are you doing okay? I’ve found great solace in my gardens over the last few weeks with the news of so much change for us all with these Covid times.

Sometimes I haven’t had the words to share but no words have been needed in here.

This is my space to not even think about anything. Just to be, grow and get my hands in the dirt.

Yesterday Edith and Victoria joined the garden to give eggs, sound with their gorgeous wee churrrs and burrrs; and to take care of food scraps and spent leaves from the garden.

Next step here is to support what is about to grow UP.

Watermelon and rockmelons on the fences, cucumbers up the old goal post.

My intention here is to grow using as little “bought stuff “ as possible. So that has meant me on the end of a drill, snips and lots of tie wire.

This wee garden border has a mix of fruit and flower. I wanted a garden I could walk around and eat ❤️ as well as enjoy ...
17/11/2021

This wee garden border has a mix of fruit and flower. I wanted a garden I could walk around and eat ❤️ as well as enjoy year round flower, colour and foliage.

Our 11 year old caught his first fish the other day while helping hubby at a clients house. Three actually - and then it seemed that they weren’t good eating fish? So into the garden and under the heavy feeders like the 5 new lady finger bananas I planted and the first of 3 Tamarillo here (another heavy feeder).

The soil here 7 years ago was hard clay. Oh and rock and old tree stumps. Year one and two was 6 inches thick trailer loads of horse poo, sawdust and seaweed with just some summer annuals for pops of colour. That was the best investment into my garden beds as now, no matter how deep I dig it’s just beautiful dark loam and loads of worms.

Horticulture lockdown day today!Companion planted, bird netted as we spied some cheeky pukeko over the fence and worm we...
31/08/2021

Horticulture lockdown day today!

Companion planted, bird netted as we spied some cheeky pukeko over the fence and worm wee fertilised.

Big job done 🥰

Kale in smoothies.Kale chips baked in the oven and splashed with salt and vinegar.Kale rubbed with lemon juice will soft...
30/08/2021

Kale in smoothies.
Kale chips baked in the oven and splashed with salt and vinegar.
Kale rubbed with lemon juice will soften its otherwise dense structure.
Kale sliced finely and cooked in corn fritters.
Kale layered throughout beef lasagna.

Grow with plenty of horse manure at the base of your raised garden and unwashed seaweed as a mulch on top.

Plant now in August. It grows super slow and then suddenly will be in abundance.

Day 11 COVID Delta lockdown A little refresh of the space that once had raised gardens built on and prior to that was th...
28/08/2021

Day 11 COVID Delta lockdown

A little refresh of the space that once had raised gardens built on and prior to that was the stomping ground of Cocoa and Chester chaps (our miniature horses).

The top layer removed and stacked to the side. This was good compost made ourselves two years ago from seaweed, horse poo, banana palm leaves and hay.

Underneath was gravelly soil. It is this Mr manual rotary hoe has dug fifty times faster than me, 20cm deep.

After much deliberation I decided to lime this without a soil test. Just one handful per square meter with Dolomite Lime. Dolomite has magnesium and NZ soil is deficient. Previously I had struggled to grow my normal huge stuff in this site. Often that can be due to poor Lime quantities. Dolomite has a quicker uptake of 2 weeks. Regular garden lime takes 6 months to notice results.

Next the compost soil that was stacked in a heap was carefully tossed over without standing on the area and then coated with a dusting of 2 handfuls per square meter of blood and bone.

The garden will be left a week before planting for the rain to soak it in.

Next step is to look for seaweed and horse manure at social distance. 👀

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1174 Te Ahu Ahu Road
Kerikeri
0293

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Tuesday 12pm - 4pm
Wednesday 12pm - 4pm
Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 1pm - 4pm

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+642040878266

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