“Take off your shoes and walk with a notebook and a pen in your garden,” she said.
“Watch what happens and start planning and dreaming.”
Dadson has 15 years of experience in landscape design and is qualified for landscape architecture and permaculture design.
Thanks to her business landscape design, she also leads workshops in seeds, fermentation, soil health and syntropic agricultural principles.
She and her partner, video Simon Ogewston, moved from Auckland to Kerikeri in 2019.
They have a variety of fruit trees on their hectares of land, including mature cockato, apple and plum trees as well as an almond tree, the nuts of which are “so tasty”.
Like most in winter, their vegetable garden has been left to its own devices and is waiting for the creation of spring.
Red beds, leeks, parsnips, silver beds and potatoes will soon be present, and in summer there will also be pumpkins, tomatoes, basil, zucchini and beans.
It will also grow edible weeds such as detention, Chabenweed, Herb Robert, Selfheal and Viola.
According to Dadson, everything starts with healthy soil.
“Winter is about rest and saving our energy, the garden can wait.
“Then spring appears and I will experience sparks of inspiration, experience increased energy and have more garden.
“In spring everything revolves around planning.
“You want to grow what you can eat.”
Anna Dadson's top tips:
- Prepare garden beds with compost or fertilizer such as horse poo or sheep pellets. Put it into the upper 15 cm floor and then cover it with weed -free mulch and plant it as soon as possible.
- Give the trees a slight plaster;
- Fertilize fruit trees with algae, organic fertilizer or slight scattering of manure.
- Tend to tend to their existing 'green manure'; Plants such as lupins, clover, oats or mustard improve soil fertility and health. If you want to set up a garden as part of the plant rotation, now give a green manure.
- Spring is a great time to multiply. So grab your seconds and take friends of friends.
- Plant pollinators; Flowers such as cosmos, calendula, allisium and tin to bees, parasitic wasps, moths and butterflies.
Dadson also suggests sitting in various places in the garden at various times of the day.
“Enjoy it to discover your garden again. When you are in different places, see it with fresh eyes.
“It is a relationship with nature and asks:” How do we work together and have sensitivity? “.
“Slope and be present … it's not just about doing the job.”
Jenny Ling is a high -ranking journalist on Northern lawyer. It has a special interest in treating human interest stories as well as finances, street and social issues.