Love Grow Eat

Love Grow Eat Establish in January 2018 Love Grow Eat is a dedicated space for the home gardener, a place of information and inspiration, of all things garden and kitchen.

A kitchen garden (and the kitchen), should be functional but beautiful.

12/09/2026

Before you plant tomatoes outside, take one more look at the overnight forecast.
September brings warmer days, but Waikato nights can still be cold.

Crops that are happy to get started now include peas, lettuce, spinach, silverbeet, spring onions, radish, beetroot, carrots and many herbs.

Warm-season seedlings such as tomatoes, capsicums and eggplants can keep growing under protection while the soil and night temperatures catch up. If you are hardening them off, introduce outdoor conditions gradually rather than moving them from a sheltered space straight into full sun, wind and cold.

The calendar gives us a guide. The conditions in our own garden give us the final answer.

What are you planting this weekend?

12/09/2026

Buying seedlings is easy. Knowing how to grow your own gives you far more choice.

At our Seed Starting Workshop on Sunday 20 September, we will take the mystery out of growing from seed. We will cover what to sow, how deeply to sow it, what seeds need to germinate, when seedlings should be potted up and how to prepare them for the garden.

Growing from seed can save money, let you choose varieties that are not always available in shops and help you know exactly where your food began. There is also something wonderfully hopeful about putting a tiny seed into the soil and watching it become food.

You do not need lots of experience or a perfect garden. You only need somewhere to begin.

Book your place for 20 September and come grow with us.

Head to our website for more details

11/09/2026

🌿 I have another little dream taking shape…

I would love to create a beautiful honesty stall at my front gate—a place where you could stop by, have a little browse and take home something grown or made by Love Grow Eat.

Depending on the season, you might find vegetable seedlings, herbs, flowers, seeds, fresh produce, preserves or other garden-made goodies. I imagine it looking rustic, welcoming and a little bit magical—like these gorgeous stalls that inspired me.

It would also mean you wouldn’t always need to wait for one of our official shop days to visit.

Before I start building and filling it, I’d love to know: would you stop by a Love Grow Eat gate stall? And what would you most like to find there?

🌱 Seedlings and herbs
🌻 Flowers
🍅 Seasonal produce
🌾 Seeds
🍓 Preserves and garden-made treats
🎁 Simple gifts made from the garden

Tell me below—because this might just be my next little project! 💚

11/09/2026

Spring is here and Love Grow Eat has a very full September ahead. 🌱

Our Seed Starting Workshop is happening on Sunday 20 September, the seedling shop opens on Sunday 27 September, and our gardening team is already busy preparing beds, planting, repotting and helping Cambridge gardens wake up for spring.

Over the next month, I will be sharing what we are sowing and planting, the jobs worth doing now, how we produce our seedlings and a few garden-grown Christmas ideas that need to be started much earlier than December.

There will be practical advice, honest behind-the-scenes moments and probably a little dirt under the fingernails. That is spring at Love Grow Eat.

Here's part of my set up. Because I rent I try to keep it simple and easy to manage and build until I buy a home for my son and I.

What are you most looking forward to growing this spring?

10/09/2026

If you remember only five things from the last 30 days, let them be these.

🌱 Grow what you eat.
🌱 Sow a little, often.
🌱 Protect tender crops.
🌱 Follow conditions, not hype.
🌱 Share what you learn.

Spring does not need to become a race. A productive garden comes from good timing, healthy soil, realistic quantities and regular observation.

Which of these five are you taking into the new season?

09/09/2026

A client asked us to build a couple of garden beds so she could grow veggies with her children—and we absolutely loved the reason behind this project. 🌱

There’s something special about creating a space where children can get their hands in the soil, choose what to plant, watch it grow and eventually eat something they helped produce.

It was a big, physical day transforming this patch of lawn into two raised garden beds with a pathway between them. And after all that digging, lifting and building, things got a little silly… 😂

Hard work, happy gardeners and a beautiful new space ready for this family to fill with veggies and memories.

We can’t wait to see it planted! 💚

Would you love a dedicated veggie-growing space at your place?

08/09/2026

From seed to saleable seedling is not just a germination date.

Each crop has its own rhythm: time to germinate, time to fill its tray, time to harden off and a window when it is at its best for planting.

That is why I am so passionate about planning seedling production properly. Strong seedlings should reach gardeners at the right stage — not sit in a pot until they are stressed and overgrown.

Would you enjoy seeing more of the nursery-planning side of Love Grow Eat?

08/09/2026

🌱 Our next Love Grow Eat newsletter is coming soon!

Spring has arrived—and this edition is all about something every productive garden needs:

Good soil and simple, affordable ways to feed it.

We’ll be talking about:

🪱 The fertilisers I actually use
♻️ Composting directly into garden beds—and even pots
🌿 Using free manure safely
🪴 Worm bins, Bokashi and compost systems
🏡 Why spring is a great time to repot plants
🌱 Our Spring Seedlings Workshop on 20 September
🎉 The Love Grow Eat seedling-shop opening on 27 September

You don’t need an expensive collection of garden products to grow healthy food. Often, the best place to begin is with what you already have.

If you’re not already receiving our newsletters, sign up here before the next one arrives:

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Love the soil. Grow good food. 🌿

07/09/2026

Three Waikato garden jobs for this week:
🌿 Make another small sowing of salad greens, radish or spring onions.
🌿 Watch the forecast, especially before moving tender seedlings outside.
🌿 Feed the soil, adding finished compost where spring crops will soon grow.

Bonus job: check young seedlings daily, mine are popping up. As the days brighten, covered trays can warm and dry faster than expected.

What is growing well at your place right now?

06/09/2026

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Sundays always feel like the day I get cracking with my projects...as you can see.

If spring has arrived faster than your garden plan, begin with one square metre.

Clear it, feed the soil, decide what will grow there and ignore the rest for today.

Small, finished spaces build confidence far better than an enormous half-started job.

And if you need help deciding what belongs where, that is exactly the kind of practical problem I love helping gardeners solve.

In the meantime, I'll be finishing off my pot area where my pots can live off ground and for the first time making space on my deck.

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