Spring has sprung
![Spring has sprung in the lavender fields. The first signs of growth started around three weeks ago and the new growth is now rapidly taking hold.
Spring of course means the weeds are also starting to grow. Our mulched glass (see last months post) keeps some weeds away, but in light of our organic thinking, we hand weed our plants.
Donna joined […] Read more…](https://www.akaroaorganics.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DSC03488-750x563.jpg "Spring has sprung")
Spring has sprung in the lavender fields. The first signs of growth started around three weeks ago and the new growth is now rapidly taking hold. Spring of course means the weeds are also starting to grow. Our mulched glass (see last months post) keeps some weeds away, but in light of our organic thinking, we hand weed our plants. Donna joined […]
Read more…Beginnings – the early days
![In this post we thought we’d take you back to the early days of our lavender journey.
We first planted lavender on the steepest and driest paddock on the property. This paddock which contained over 1,000 plants has now, some seventeen years later, been allowed to revert back to native bush.
Seven years ago we started developing a new area for lavender. […] Read more…](https://www.akaroaorganics.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/IMAG0019-663x497.jpg "IMAG0019")
In this post we thought we’d take you back to the early days of our lavender journey. We first planted lavender on the steepest and driest paddock on the property. This paddock which contained over 1,000 plants has now, some seventeen years later, been allowed to revert back to native bush. Seven years ago we started developing a new area for lavender. […]
Read more…First hints of spring
![You know it’s the first signs of Spring when the grass starts to grow. September is that month when the air temperature typically starts to rise above 10C, to around 15C. […] Read more…](https://www.akaroaorganics.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/First-hints-of-spring2-663x265.jpg "first-hints-of-spring2")
You know it’s the first signs of Spring when the grass starts to grow. September is that month when the air temperature typically starts to rise above 10C, to around 15C. […]
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