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winning letter<br />
Hitting the spot<br />
Let me start with a big thank you for such<br />
a delightful magazine. Your March edition<br />
was well themed as I drowned in my<br />
successful superabundance of tomatoes.<br />
I made my first batches of tomato relish<br />
and learned how to bottle correctly using a<br />
boiling water bath.<br />
During lockdown levels four and three<br />
your April edition quiz and articles were put<br />
to good use over daily FaceTime sessions<br />
to my mum in the UK. So pleased to see<br />
another quiz in May’s edition. A great<br />
conversation starter and brain stimulant.<br />
Mum has an extensive plant knowledge and<br />
as the years progress my fingers are turning<br />
greener as I have more time available to<br />
me. I’m sure I’m not the only one who<br />
had done more gardening in the last two<br />
months than the last two years!<br />
Many thanks from mum and myself,<br />
weekly video calls have become daily<br />
during lockdown and it’s been great to<br />
bond through our shared love of gardening<br />
and your magazine.<br />
Jackie Hollywood, Wellington<br />
social<br />
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I wanted to say how much I’ve enjoyed reading your magazine, I’m a fairly new<br />
subscriber. I find it really useful and informative, there’s always something I learn.<br />
And I’m a gardener of many years!<br />
My ‘I wish I’d known sooner’ is the power of a digger. We built on previous<br />
farmland and hubby kept saying ‘should have bought a digger’. We finally did and<br />
the difference it’s made to my gardening! Previously I toiled with a spade and<br />
worked with the contours of the land, making wonky terraces and paths. This new<br />
garden has been on our (my) lockdown to-do list. I want to put in a lot of flowering<br />
edibles and, after being inspired by the June issue, I realised I need some roses as<br />
well. This time it’ll be done properly with a slight mound and a bricked path.<br />
You might be envious of the digger, but check out that clay soil.<br />
Sarah Williams, Auckland<br />
From the garden<br />
Catherine Hill kindly sent us these beautiful photos from her Wellington garden<br />
showing off dahlias, Plectranthus and one of the many yellow admiral butterflies<br />
that have been a common sight this year.<br />
Write to us<br />
Have you got a gardening tip or photo you’d like to share with other Kiwi Gardener readers? Drop us a line!<br />
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Email: editor@gardener.kiwi (subject: letter to the editor). Post: Letters, Kiwi Gardener, PO Box 1467, Christchurch 8140.<br />
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