New Zealand Organic Permaculture garden update

An update of a small area of tomatoes and berries. Harvesting Black krims, white raspberries, logan berries and strawberries and green and yellow heritage dwarf beans this month from this patch of ground.

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Education

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• NZ gardening
• New Zealand permaculture
• organic gardening
• nz organics
• soil health
• home grown produce
• healthy plants
• heritage tomatoes

[akhennion]

why tomatoes are so expensives in New Zealand? I read on a website that cost 10 NZD, but i can´t undertand it been NZ a producing country

[DjNgatiDread]

@akhennion it comes down to supply and demand. At this time of year there are only Hothouse or imported tomatoes available. Personally I bottle my own so I have tomatoes throughout the year and dont have to deal with extortionate prices such as these. They are reasonbly hard to produce during the winter months and take a lot of effort to grow etc this is why the prices are so high. From December onwards however they will go right down to only a few dollars per kilo. But are chemically grown.

[ajsl]

Sweet video. It's nice to see an update. :) Interesting you're leaving the laterals in on the Tomatoes. Do you reckon you get a better result that way?

[DjNgatiDread]

@ajsl Hi yea by leaving a few the yeild is larger. But i find this works better with Heritage varieties as they are much hardier and dont need the air flow around the leaves(to prevent mould) as much as commercial varieties do.

More vids coming this year...Stay tuned... :) thanks for your questions hope i answered them sufficiently.

[vegasacid]

Do you get many pests with the fish waste? I've grown strawberries over the summer, but not as organically grown as you have. Though I've been composting more and adding to the soil and it is getting a lot more richer and have just put some more in. I must try the other berries, nice video

[DjNgatiDread]

@vegasacid If your looking for heritage seeds check my facebook site-World Heritage seed bank. Its a small concerted group that collect and share heritage seeds of all kinds. No pests with the fish waste that I have noticed, maybe a mouse may have had a sniff but never been dug up or caused any trouble other than a bit of whiffiness in the first month. A small price to pay I would say. Glad you like the vid am a gardener not a videographer :)

[DjNgatiDread]

@vegasacid....... Aged worm-eaten pig and horse manure once a year. As for the strawberries they are very simple lots of organic matter and humus straw to keep the berries off the soil and I rip them up on the winter solstice seperate them then replant. Strawberry plants this year will be around 200. Not sure whether you were asking about strawberries or The others sorry. Hope that answers your question..much love.

[DjNgatiDread]

@vegasacid Hi, not hard at all. They have Raspberries and Logan Berries have shallow but wide roots systems that require a lot of organic matter to sustain their vigorous growth over the summer months. I supply them witha few fish carcasses over the winter months, which I bury right on the root ball under 4-6 inches of soil. Come spring its completely broken down and ready for the roots to metabolise into readily accessable nutrient and trace element rich goodness. Also use Seaweed and .......

[vegasacid]

how hard have you found growing the berries? are you in the North island?