Welcome to the absolute rock bottom beginner guide to gardening. This episode is for you if you expect it to take about 5 minutes a day to garden, don't compost properly, don't particularly love the idea of gardening, and think you can put a seedling in an abandoned old garden bed and it will have everything it needs.
We asked 20 of New Zealand's top gardeners from around the country to share the very best of their advice.
Top suggestions on what to plant going into winter.
Choko (didn't say on the episode but well worth checking out – its grows like an out of control weed, so perfect for a beginner gardener – follow advice from rediscover.co.nz:
Eliot Coleman's book, 4 Season Harvest. Works well for South Island (Maine, USA)
Anything by Charles Dowding on Youtube. Somerset UK. Excellent videos. “His method is the easiest I've see anywhere - and with great results!”
Thank you to the gurus, market gardeners, educators and communicators who gave their time. Here they are with links to any helpful projects they are involved with – heaps of great resources:
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