Heirloom Veggie Plants Waikanae Market this Saturday
Met Service are forecasting a long hot summer. Get your veggies in now so they are well-established before you need to start watering.
Possibly the last two weeks for Heirloom Tomatoes. Large strong plants just begging to be out of pots and into the soil. Planted our own this week and already they are expanding fast.
We also have large Pumpkin seedlings ready to run, plus Cucumber, Kumi Kumi, Zucchini, Red Capsicum, Kumara and a limited amount of basil, mint and chives.
All our seedlings are good strong plants, grown outdoors and ready to go in the ground.
By way of background, heirloom tomatoes are ones which have been handed down through the generations because they are prized for their flavour and suitability for various uses, whether used fresh or for preserves. They can be traced back to their origins all over Europe, the Americas and we even have our own NZ heirlooms. Many have fascinating stories behind their often fanciful-sounding names.
Poll: Do you set New Year’s resolutions?
🎉 2026 is almost here!
We’re curious ... how do you welcome it?
Do you set resolutions, follow special traditions, or just go with the flow?
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10.6% Yes! New Year, New Me
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21% Yes - but I rarely stick to them
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68.4% Nah - not for me
Quote for the Day
Interviewer:
"Do you think that the British class system has finally ended?"
Upper-middle class Romance author, Dame Barbara Cartland:
"Well, of course it has; otherwise I would't be sitting here, talking to someone like you!"
Happy New Year [hopefully!]
Mike
Driven On The Akatarawa Rd Lately?
If so, its good to know you are still alive and reading this.
We have a function to go to over Christmas up that way and having heard a few hairy stories about the road, I went up there on Thursday to check it out. The road's ok, narrow and winding, but not much worse than a Wellington hill suburb. What was pretty scary was the behavior of other drivers. Three vehicles heading the other way at speed would have crashed into me if I hadn't been pulled off the road. I had pulled in to check the address when a truck came flying past, taking up all of the narrow road at speed. There is no way the driver would have been able to stop had they come around the corner immediately in front of me. The other two drivers came hurtling past as I had turned in to turn around and come back down the hill. They were also driving at speed and taking up most of the road. Coming back down I passed another car coming up and estimate that the safe speed to pass another car was about 30-35 kms.p.h. So, now we're thinking, do we go to the function or not.? Feels a bit like we're taking our life in our hands going up there. Drivers appear to be overconfident, and they are courting serious injury.
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