Dee Pignéguy

Survival and gardening have gone hand in hand for centuries, but in the last 50 years we have perfected the art of the unproductive urban...

Perhaps in our busy lives with the proliferation of fast-food outlets we forget the power of food. I cook and that doesn’t seem like a...

We will have to behave as though we are at war if gardeners are going to control guava moth. The whole community needs to be...

A garden in Whangaparāoa is positive proof that the most difficult site can be turned into a productive garden. Nathan Shiu’s small, steep clay-based site...

 There are no single solutions to mitigate against the unprecedented phenomena of climate change but a healthy soil that sequesters carbon, stores water, and reduces...

My pick for Spring seed sowing would be root vegetables like Japanese turnips, swedes, carrots, and parsnips.  There will also be time for planting seedlings...

The drought showed many that gardening in the future will be dramatically different. Every biological reaction in the garden depends on water, and five months...

How you care for your soil, and grow the plants in your garden, has a flow on effect that is becoming recognised more and more...

There is an army of beneficial insects—spiders, bumble bees, dragonflies, hoverflies, wasps, ladybirds, praying mantis, beetles, earwigs and honey bees just waiting to help us...

Previous columns will have prepared you for summer gardening. Soil nutrients should be in place, mulch has been sourced, pests have been identified and now...