Your Garden Coach NZ
Guiding keen new gardeners to become confident vegetable growers no matter the size of your garden or your skill level.
We aim to share tips and tricks to help you grow healthy, nutrient-rich vegetables.
Based in the Central Otago region of New Zealand.
Happy gardening
Your Garden Coach NZ
Spring Season 2 Episode 12
🌸 Urban Beekeeping Buzz with Cormac Farrell! 🌸
This week on Your Garden Coach NZ, we’re thrilled to have Cormac Farrell, author of Urban Beekeeping, join us! 🐝 Catch the episode now on Buzzsprout, Spotify, or Apple Podcasts!
🌿 Episode Highlights:
🍯 Main Topic: Cormac shares his incredible journey from hobby beekeeper to the Australian Government’s Head Beekeeper! Discover how his love for bees led him to this prestigious role and get insights from his book Urban Beekeeping, perfect for anyone curious about keeping bees in urban spaces.
🏆 Listener Giveaway: Congratulations to Terri Waerea, this week’s $20 Kings Seeds voucher winner! 🎉 Don’t forget to enter each week for your chance to win!
🌕 Gardening by the Moon: Enhance your garden’s health with lunar wisdom! We’re in the Cultivate period starting the 15th—perfect for building soil fertility. Listen in for more tips! 🌱 Plus, root crop succession sowing on the 19th and 20th; it’s the ideal time to direct-sow those root crops!
🥬 Vegetable of the Week: Artichoke—this elegant perennial veggie deserves a place in your garden. Plant now to enjoy its unique flavors in seasons to come!
📖 Book of the Week: An Almost Impossible Thing by Fiona Davison—a fascinating read. Discover the challenges women in horticulture faced in the late 19th Century!
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🌸 Happy Gardening! 🌸
You can contact us at coach@yourgardencoach.nz
Seasonal listening tip: No matter where you are in the world, you can dip back into earlier episodes to match the season you’re in right now. Just look at the titles (e.g. Spring Ep3) and choose the ones that line up with your own garden season — that way, the advice will always be spot-on and timely for you.
