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Tending the garden and taking care of the soil

21/4/2020

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food scraps at Lawrie Road
Worm castings at Lawrie RoadWorm castings
As the world struggles to adjust to the new reality of living with COVID-19, we recognise the importance of kindness, compassion and strength in our community during these challenging times. 

Since lockdown began, I have been in a one-person bubble with my cat, but sadly he's not much of a conversationalist!  I have however, taken solace in my garden and despite the drought it's never looked so good. Every day I am harvesting lots of food - it gives me so much satisfaction. 

I think many other people have taken to gardening over this time judging by the rush on buying seeds and seedlings before lockdown.  That can only be a good thing to make us more resilient.

With potentially only three weeks left to the end of level three, this is a great time to be looking after our soils by composting all our household food scraps and green waste.  For those who are not sure how to go about it, the Compost Collective, who usually run free courses all over the Auckland region, are now doing online courses on their website. Do check it out.

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https://www.landscapingwellingtonpros.kiwi/ link
29/10/2020 13:42:18

Most people resorted to planting and having their own garden on this pandemic. Instead of being bored and have nothing to do, they spend their time doing landscape and taking care of their plants. That's good, we highly encourage doing it. Anyways, you guys are inspiring others to do the same thing you are doing, keep it up!
- Brenda

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Shawn Kepler link
5/1/2021 17:33:39

This is very healthy for our garden. Your landscape garden will surely look dashing after all these nutrients given. Best alternative for fertilizers.

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skip for garden waste link
22/6/2021 18:46:18

The flipside of food squander is abundance utilization; apparently the most dangerous illness in our general public. The best quality food varieties (natural, reasonable exchange, new, natural, and so on) may cost more, yet that supports purchasing less, in this way lessening waste while improving social, ecological, and individual wellbeing results. Put another way: shop like a Zen ace, endeavoring to be aware of the reason for every thing picked.

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domestic skip hire link
22/6/2021 18:48:37

Getting aware of food squander implies raising feast wanting to a definite science. To the degree conceivable, plan your week after week food supply ahead of time and purchase just what you need. Buys made spontaneously are regularly those that sit on the rack at home until they are old or spoiled, ultimately winding up in the trash. The antiquated methodology of making a shopping list dependent on formula amounts can go far toward forestalling the acquisition of pointless things, however today there are a large group of food shopping applications planned explicitly for the waste-cognizant purchaser.

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pestcontrolwestaucklandnz.kiwi link
15/7/2021 18:50:43

This is a healthy fertilizer, I said healthy since there are chemical induced ones. That's why our company is working on organic ones.

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Michael link
23/9/2021 03:33:28

Great Article! Thank you for sharing this very informative post, and looking forward to the latest one.

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Travis Moore link
25/10/2022 20:07:17

I really like articles discussing waste management. Thank you and hope to read more articles about this.

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