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I so love your magazine. My husband and I do seedling markets from October in our area. We really urge all our customers to get started with veges and herbs. Anyone can plant up a pot of edible goodness, even if they do not have a garden. Your magazine is so inspiring. Fran Abraham

Kia ora Good for your recent gardening issue!

We are privileged to have a large garden, and spend a lot of time there – both relaxing and tending to it. Our nine-yearold son has always enjoyed being in the garden and it’s so beneficial for tamariki to try some gardening – whether that’s at home, school, their grandparents’ garden or in a community garden setting. My son’s advice to parents is “Give them their own area to do what they want with; include them in exciting garden work; and don’t be too fussy or get upset if they do something like step on a seedling.”

Kia kaha and look forward to reading the next issue!

Gretchen Carroll

Thank you Wendyl Nissen for baring your soul and writing “Expectation versus reality”.

As a fledgling gardener I found your article enlightening, and an encouragement to carry on after also losing most of my crop varieties last year (for reasons unknown to me!). Only my dwarf beans survived so this year I’m planting mostly di erent crops and trying again with tomatoes after reading many articles to ensure the plants have a good chance of survival this year. I will also take a leaf out of your book and try the salad varieties and have planted ‘perpetual spinach’ which I’m assured is ‘fail-safe’. Alison

I have just received my second Good magazine and am finding them refreshing and full of surprisingly helpful articles, hints and information.

I now understand how to grow potatoes in a container and why you cover them with dirt, thanks to Nadia, and have started. I liked that Wendyl Nissen said it is okay to leave your garden to do its own thing. I will have a go at the comfrey oil recipe – I am a fan of comfrey for its medicinal help with muscle sprains. The tips for a tea garden and growing and drying herbs will be used! An easy composting suggestion – a friend uses a black rubbish sac inside a second one (so two layers of black sac) fills it with the stu to compost + paper, sticks, dry leaves etc, ties them up tight and puts them under her fruit trees – it keeps the weeds down. Might look a bit ‘interesting’ but in about six months she opens it and it is able to be scattered on the garden as compost.

My husband has also found

the magazine very healing to look at it while recovering from an injury.

I also love the layout, look and feel of your pages and photography. It is beautiful. Judy Keane

After nearly three years of Covid disruption I’ve found that I’ve become more introverted and home based. I still connect with friends and whānau but more often than not it has been virtually instead of in person. Reading “Headcase” helped me see that I need to revitalise my hobbies and get outside more often. I used to spend a lot of time at the beach, on the water and in the bush tramping and exploring nature. After reading your article I went online and looked at local bush walks and my friends and I have committed to doing a new walk each month to reconnect with each other and the outdoors. Thanks for reminding me of the value of pleasure.

Jess Good