spring · 13 weeks
Spring 2025
Thirteen weeks from last frost to first heat — planting, structure, and soil across Aotearoa.
This edition follows one Southern Hemisphere spring week by week. Each article stands alone but reads in sequence — from reading your block after winter through frost windows, seed work, tree planting, potatoes, perennials, water audit, community kai, and shade before summer arrives.
Global horticulture principles apply everywhere; examples ground in New Zealand climates from coastal Bay of Plenty to inland frost, with Te Tiriti o Waitangi acknowledged as the foundation of land stewardship here.
- Site Survey on Wet Boots
- Frost Lines and Planting Windows
- Seed Starting and Hardening Off
- Rows That Leave Room
- Pruning the Mid-Storey
- Saplings Before Stock
- Layers Before Beds
- Potatoes and Labour Weekend
- Perennials Waking in Spring
- Urban Edge Polyculture
- Spring Irrigation Audit
- People Care Is Land Care
- Shade Is Infrastructure