Keen to turn your garden and kitchen waste into black gold? Composting is one of the simplest and most rewarding ways to boost your soil health, reduce household waste, and create a thriving, sustainable garden.

Autumn may be winding down, but that doesn’t mean your garden has to! May is a brilliant time to plant a variety of flowers that will keep your garden blooming with colour and texture right through winter and into spring.

As autumn deepens across the Waikato, it’s a great time to get fruiting favourites into the ground. May offers ideal planting conditions as the soil still holds warmth, and young trees can establish strong root systems.

May marks the perfect time to get cool-season crops into the ground here in the Waikato. Currently the soil still holds a bit of warmth, giving seeds a chance to establish themselves before winter really kicks in.