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What a busy weekend we had at the markets over Labour weekend! Below are some photo’s of our stand at the Clevedon Farmers market (also one shot of the view from our stand across the newly sown grassed area in the middle of the market). We love our new premises!
We still have plenty of tomato plants and various herb and vegetable seedlings available for sale at the markets so make sure you prepare your garden and come along and see us at either the Howick Village market, Mairangi Bay Village Market or Britomart Farmers Market on Saturday or the Clevedon Farmers Market on Sunday.
Its that time of year again…time to plant your tomatoes!
We will have the following tomato plants for sale for the next few weekends at the markets. All $3.00 each.
Roma – Pear shaped fruit are produced on a vigorous plant. Good preserving and home garden variety. Acid free.
Moneymaker – Large vigorous plants producing globe shaped fruit. This popular plant sets under most conditions making it very popular. Value for money.
Big Beef - Produces large juicy tomatoes, combined with the old-fashioned beefsteak flavour – very tasty. Plants are multi-disease resistant and produce high yields. Big Beef is the perfect sandwich tomato.
Zola – Medium to large sized fruit, excellent flavour and colour. Determinate bush habit so no stringing or lateraling! Widely disease resistant.
Sweet Million – Produces dark red fruit 2.5cm in diameter. Vigorous plants with increased disease resistance and improved tolerance to cracking. Very sweet tasting.
Petula – Best suited to unheated greenhouses or outdoor crops. Medium sized fruit, strong against cracking. Very early maturing. Attractive fruit with good flavour.
Beefsteak – Kidney-bean shape, spreading out to the sides. It has numerous compact seed cavities and the core is practically non-existent. Because of this it holds together well when cut, and so is particularly well suited for slicing and eating raw.
We are going to be at the Auckland Botanic Gardens next Sunday 27 March, 10am-2pm for the Market in the Garden
Check out the info below from from the Botanic Garden Festival Website http://www.bgf.co.nz/markets/
MARKET IN THE GARDEN – 10am till 2pm
Take a little bit of Farmers Market, mix in some Food & Wine Festival, combine with a dash of Craft Fair and finish off with some Summer Music – the end result will be unique and exciting – the market of the year!
Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Auckland Botanic Gardens, Market in the Garden will showcase the finest Auckland has to offer. High quality, desirable and a little bit different – there’s nothing plain and ordinary about Market in the Garden.
Don’t forget to bring cash (most vendors won’t have eftpos) and reusable shopping bags.
VENDORS
To register your interest for a stall at Market in the Garden please download the Stallholders Registration Pack and return it no later than Friday 11 March to Market Coordinator Lee Madsen at lee.madsen@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz.
Don’t miss out – stall spaces are limited!
LOOK WHO WILL BE THERE …
Pukeko Bakery makes delicious artisan bread that is so good, Simon Gault has put it on his menu at Euro. Come along and check out their famous kumara loaf.
Oh Fudge! uses the finest ingredients to produce the smoothest, most delectable hand-made fudge in New Zealand. Our flavours include the classics like Russian and Chocolate, through to more exotic concoctions such as Boysenberry, Fig & Ginger and Crème Brulee. Come down and visit us to try a free sample!
Marsella’s Tacos is a combination of my Grandma’s old recipes infused with my mama’s savviness and sprinkled with my own flare. I’m bringing the ultimate authentic Mexican food experience to New Zealand. Come and try for your self.
Tofutree Art & Design offer paintings and jewellery designs inspired by the natural beauty and kiwi lifestyle of our precious country.
Blackwoods Bakeries specialise in long fermentation artisan bread such as ciabatta, sour doughs and french pastry. We make all the doughs from scratch using recipes developed by Adam over time and sell exclusively at weekend markets throughout Auckland.
Kernow Cornish Pasties make delicious handmade Cornish pasties, Eccles cakes and pork pies using traditional recipes to capture the authentic taste of bye-gone years.
Clevedon Herbs & Produce grow fresh herbs and produce from our farm in the Wairoa Gorge, 5 minutes from Clevedon Village. We provide fresh herbs and a range of produce for markets in the Auckland area.
Over the Moon is an adventurous boutique cheesemaking company that uses the world’s finest ingredients to make exciting new dairy products, while paying homage to the great traditions of cheesemaking internationally.
Vin Alto is a boutique winery dedicated to the production of Italian style wines, combining old world charm with new world flair. At the market we will have different varieties at special prices and they will be available by the glass and bottle to take home to enjoy.
Ooooby (Out Of Our Own Backyard) is a network of food gardeners who support growing locally. This is your chance to find out what Ooooby is about and subscribe to a box full of yummy fresh fruit and vegetables, locally grown and weekly delivered to your door! Check out the sample box and join our growing social community.
Christmas is almost upon us! We are busily preparing for the pre Xmas markets…6 the week before Xmas!
We are now taking orders for these markets as we know they are going to be busy! So make sure you come and see us at the markets this weekend to place your orders, particularly if you are after new potatoes, tomatoes, baby carrots, bucket of lettuce or bucket of herbs.
You can also order some of Amy’s pots (our daughter) which are looking great!
Miniature Garden – $25
Great Christmas present for children.
Miniature garden includes the following:
- Baby Carrots
- Peas
- Radishes
- Lettuce
- Parsley
Easy to look after – Just keep the garden well watered and train the pea’s around the bamboo stake.
MICROGREEN PLANTER – $25
Great for use over the Christmas period in salads.
The latest trend in gourmet salad greens for those with limited garden space. Microgreens are bigger than sprouts but smaller than baby salad leaves.
Each planter includes the following…
- Fiji Pea Feathers – A semi-leafless pea bred for its feathered shoots. Tastes just like pea’s in the pod!
- Sango Radish – Exceptionally high in vitamins and minerals, its purple colour is also an antioxidant recognized as having anti cancer properties particularly in the bowel.
- Mustard Streaks – Finely cut Mizuna-like leaves with a sweet mild mustard flavour.
- Rocket – Excellent salad spiker with distinctive slightly bitter tangy taste.
Easy to look after – Just keep well watered and snip off as needed. Can be kept on your kitchen bench, centrepiece on your dining table or outside on the deck.
We will have seven varieties of tomato plants available at the markets from tomorrow. See below for details…
Some photos of our stall at the Mairangi Bay Village market yesterday…
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
Hi there,
Spring is all but here. The coriander is shooting away – what a wonderful time of year for this wonderful herb. A most often asked question at the market is – how do we stop it bolting? The trick is to not let the plant dry out – it is also a cool season herb. During summer I find it is most successful grown in a pot where the moisture levels can be closely monitored. The beans are definitely enjoying the warmer weather and longer day light hours – little bright green shoots are growing all over the plants. We are slowly bringing into the markets seedlings which will be successful in gardens at this time of year. The tomato plants have been seeded and are looking great and are on target to be available early mid October.
Hi there, Spring is really in the air. We have seeded an early crop of squash and also rock melon. Seedlings are now available at the markets…lettuce, spinach, rocket and beetroot to name a few. Phil is seeding various varieties of tomatoes which we hope (weather permitting) will be available mid-October. It is very exciting instead of growing just lettuce as we have in previous years – throughout the property in different stages of development we have pak choy, rocket, spinach, fennel bulbs, watercress, chinese cabbage, radich, beetroot, carrots, potatoes, snowpeas, flat beans, huge amount of herbs, sweetpea flowers. Whew – this is certainly keeping us busy.
We had a huge amount of page views on our facebook page last week…wondering if it was something to do with the Horticulture New Zealand 2010 Conference that was being held?????
Hi there,,I cannot believe another week is over. The whole family had a really busy day (being Friday) – I was in charge of picking nasturtians and rocket. Phil with great excitement picked his first few bags of indoor tomatoes, did all the heavy lifting and well as a million other things. The girls were very busy indeed (the grandchildren supervising their every move) putting the salads, spinach, watercress and other general veges together ready for the boss to load the truck.
See you at the Markets – it looks as though Saturday will be a lovely day.