2 Jul 2022

Kath Irvine: winter planting and chickens in the garden

From Saturday Morning, 11:40 am on 2 July 2022
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Photo: Catherine Cattanach

Organic gardener Kath Irvine returns to share some winter gardening tips and to answer your questions. As we move through Matariki and the shortest days, Kath’s main advice to gardeners? Keep planting!  

Irvine provides advice from her permaculture home garden in Ōhau, in the Horowhenua. Her practical guide to growing organic fruit and vegetables, The Edible Backyard was published last year. Send your gardening questions through to saturday@rnz.co.nz or text 2101.

chickens on fresh ground weeding for me bugs for them edible backyard

Photo: Kath Irvine