Dee Pignéguy

Gardening on 525sqm in a new subdivision has its challenges, as I found out recently when I visited a local gardener (who did not want...

Despite 10,000 years of depending on plants for their very survival, humans, who had prospered by learning from their environment, didn’t recognise the part light...

If you are a gardener, you will have realised that disease is multifaceted and only in a few cases can it be attributed to a...

New subdivisions have flourished on the peninsula recently, bringing in many fledgling gardeners.  A number have asked me if I would help them plan a...

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...