Auckland desk worker on weekdays and mud under the fingernails most weekends.

A small backyard, built one bed at a time since 2019.

Me in the back garden holding up a big bunch of celery I grew, with red cabbages and geraniums behind me

Right now

Winter in Auckland - brassicas and broad beans holding the fort, the grapefruit tree finally colouring up, and new beds going in while the clay's soft.

About

I'm Gil. This is what I do to relax.

My dad taught me as a kid, and I've had a garden going somewhere ever since. Still having far too much fun with it.

Timeline

Year by year, bed by bed.

From a rectangle of lawn in 2019 to sunflowers, pumpkins, and a much-moved grapefruit tree.

Journal

What worked, and what didn't.

Dated notes from the beds, what worked, what the chickens ruined.

Latest from the journal Flowers 11 October 2026

We went for a cherry tree

We went to the nursery to look at weeping cherries. They didn't have the height we wanted, so we came home with two rhododendrons instead.

Chickens owned

Grapefruit relocations

New trees this winter

Projects planned

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