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Posts Tagged ‘Clevedon Farmers Market’
Make sure you come along to the extra Christmas markets next week…
WED 22 DEC, CLEVEDON MARKET 4PM-7PM
THUR 23 DEC, HOWICK MARKET 4PM-7PM
FRI 24 DEC, MAIRANGI BAY MARKET 8AM-12PM
If you would like to order your your herbs and/or produce for pick up at one of the above markets then please email us http://www.clevedonherbsproduce.com/contact/
See you all next week!
Just a reminder that there is no Clevedon Farmers Market this week as it is the annual Clevedon A&P Show.
Check out the information about the A&P Show by clicking here
Below are some photos of the Clevedon Farmers Market at Labour Weekend. The two grandchildren played on the back of the truck while five of us were serving customers. Our busiest day yet!!!
We will have seven varieties of tomato plants available at the markets from tomorrow. See below for details…
Phil has gone crazy with his tomato plants this year!!! We have had them available at the markets for the last couple of weeks but this weekend we will have an abundance!
It is the perfect time to be planting them and this year we have two varieties available. Minibelle – a cherry tomato variety and Zola – a beef steak type variety. We have chosen these after many years of testing different varieties including heirlooms. These two varieties seem to be the easiest and most low maintenance to grow. Both are dwarfing varieties so no stringing or lateraling!!! YAY!!! All you need to do is keep them watered everyday and feed them every so often (Nitrosol or something similar is perfect). However for those of you that like to potter away in the garden stringing and laterling we will have six other varieties available from Labour weekend.
We keep them in large pots on the deck right beside the bbq along with a couple of pots of basil (we will have basil available from Labour weekend – a bit too cold in Auckland still, our seeds have just germinated!). Yum! Imagine the meals that you can make!!!
You will need to allow about 1m2 around the pot or garden as the laterals will shoot out to this area. The plants in our experience produce heaps of fruit.
Come and see us at Mairangi Bay, Clevedon, Britomart and Howick this weekend. Feel free to ask questions as we will be more that happy to help. Phil will be at the Mairangi Bay and Clevedon markets. He is the tomato expert!!! Check out this link to find out why http://www.clevedonherbsproduce.com/who-we-are/
Here are some photos from last year’s crop’s
Check out the Clevedon Farmers market’s latest newsletter…
Check out these great photos that Ben Crawford took at the Clevedon Farmers Market on Sunday. Note our parsley plants!!!
http://www.bencrawford.co.nz/blog/clevedon-farmers-market-auckland/
Hi there,
How exciting to be ‘hauled’ into the greenhouse to be shown our first crop of indoor tomatoes turning red. What beauties! We will be closely watching their progress. We sampled our new potatoes served with some fantastic gurnard which we bought from the Clevedon Farmers Market – they were absolutely ‘melt in the mouth’. Just another few weeks and we will have them for sale. I spent quite some time in the sweet pea garden last week to discourage a few weeds. The vines are surviving the winter well and hopefully we will have sweet pea flowers for sale in early spring.
A bit of mention about us in the April edition of Her Business magazine…
“Having the markets has allowed growers who were growing one type of green to now grow herbs, salad greens, cucumbers, beans, pumpkins; a full range of produce is better than just one thing unless you have a specific product that you do extraordinarily well.”
Check out the rest of the article The Bazaar world of women
This article was written back in January but is quite a good read about the Clevedon Farmers Market.
Going Local by Amanda Laird in the New Zealand Herald