Andrew Steens

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking at the wonderful Big Buzz Festival at Matakana School. The topic was plants for honeybees and the myriad...

Late summer to early autumn is probably my favourite season; the nights are a little cooler and more comfortable, the days are typically warm and...

With this year’s rather active La Niña weather system and global warming adding an extra push to temperatures, this summer is shaping up to be hot...

One of the joys of spring is the ability to grow and pick a wide range of plants for daily salads. There is nothing healthier...

We have had a particularly warm winter this year and MetService is predicting a warm, wet summer for the eastern North Island due to a...

Succession is an important concept in life, as we move through the various stages from infancy to old age. Recently, Ang and I have been...

At this time of year, some of the urgency has come off the list of tasks in the garden. Everything tends to slow down in...

These weeks of lockdown have been a boon for gardeners – loads of time to get into the garden and attend to all those jobs...

This week I would like to talk about growth. No, not the sort of growth that one would normally assume I would be talking about,...

Well, if there was ever a year that I was grateful for my bore, it’s this one. With lawns, paddocks and even mature trees around...