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 Memories 11 August 2026

Somebody always ends up wet

If you want kids in the garden, do not start them on weeding. Give them the hose. Which is why half my garden photos have somebody wet in them.

The three girls on the deck, soaked and grinning
2019
The year it started
3
Grapefruit relocations
6
New trees this winter
18
Projects planned
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