This service is for people wishing to start productive gardens – vegetable and/or fruit production.
I visit your property for between 1-3 hours (usually dependent upon size and what you want to do). You can then take notes, or record out discussion on your phone, or I can write up a report of what needs doing.
The advice sessions covers:
• How much productive garden is needed dependent upon family size, space and time available
• Site and aspect
• Soil type, building and improvement including how to pH test
• Shelter planting and species
• Coppice species suitable for the property and how much to put in
• Gardening systems – eg raised beds, lasagne beds, mandalas
• Tools – hand and machinery
• Compost systems – 3 bay bins, tumblers, black bins, hot and cold compost
• Liquid fertilizers – seaweed, comfrey, compost teas
• Weeding and mulching
• Protection of crops
• Companion planting and orchard and plant guilds
• Timing of planting – Spring through to winter
• Types of plants to grow – vegetables, fruit, herbs
• Annual and perennial plants
• Seasonal planting
• Garden maintenance
• Irrigation
This is an advice service which helps you to design your garden – it is a verbal or written report which sets out the steps to start to build a productive garden. I do not draw up a plan or a pretty picture!
Cost – $75/hr + travel (83c/km). There is a minimum fee of $150 for the garden visit. You can take notes as we progress around the garden, or record me on your phone. Alternatively I supply a written report for $150 inclusive.
I also offer this advice online for those of you who are not in the Taranaki area. This is done via an online visual access such as teams, zoom, whatsapp for 45 minutes and the cost is $75. Contact me for more details.