The Tamarillo Show
Do tamarillos (now in season!) reveal a secret symbol when you cut them in half?
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Emily's enthusiastic garden experiments and explorations in Aotearoa. More →
Morning Glory Solar Light
The original solar lights in the sky are so magnificent and wondrous to behold, but the solar lights you can buy are generally uninspired and ugly. How to capture and transmit beauty along with the light?
Read more →Fractalicious Romanesco
Introducing the most delightfully geeky of all vegetables, the Romanesco.
Read more →Seeds of Enlightenment
One morning, the reclining Buddha’s ear appeared encrusted with tiny jade stones.
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Saturday Seagarden Spoils
A sketchy harvest report from a glorious autumnal afternoon in the garden.
Read more →Very Hungry Caterpillars
Celebrating A Very Hungry Caterpillar and learning how to deal with very hungry caterpillars feasting on vegetables in the organic garden.
Read more →Life and Death For The Win
Delighted “Pictures of Life and Death,” a garden featuring fungi, lichen and moulds by a team from the Christchurch Botanic Gardens took first place at the Ellerslie International Flower Show in Christchurch this week.
Read more →Green Roofs for Auckland
Emily Harris has a wonderful vision of establishing rooftop gardens for Auckland city-dwellers, so that they can grow their own fresh, healthy food, right on the roof of their apartment buildings.
Read more →Vegetable Sheep
Captivated by New Zealand’s vegetable sheep via Anne Galloway (Raoulia and Haastia species, not to be confused with sheep made from vegetables).
Read more →Pollan’s Rules and Oliver’s Schools
What do we learn about food in school? Not much! But I always learn something useful from Michael Pollan and am moved by Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish to teach every child about food.
Read more →Tropical Tuesday
Coffee and bananas are staples — essentials — on my shopping list, papaya and passionfruit whenever in season. But usually, I’m referring to the end produce, not the plant.
Read more →Who’s Laying Eggs in the Okra?
This morning I noticed every leaf of every okra seedling had little crystal beads on the undersides. They look like tiny dew drops and feel like tobiko. That’s eggs. Eggs! Who is laying eggs in my okra?
Read more →Seagarden Log: Weather With You
The weather station is up and running (though not yet in its ultimate location) and publishing through Weather Underground. Enter tomatoes, crystal apple cucumbers, and feijoa! And weta.
Read more →Lettuce Begin Early
I’d noticed greens harvested early in the morning for omelets tasted better and stayed fresh longer than the greens picked in the afternoon or evening. Now I know why…
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