Articles by Ruud Kleinpaste
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Timing is Everything: Fluffy Bums
Saturday, 19 October 2024, 12:41pmPassionvine Hoppers came up in conversation a week or so ago: a nuisance for gardeners, especially in the warmer north (but...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Planting before the dry season sets in
Saturday, 5 October 2024, 12:13pmIt’s already getting dry in Canterbury, and I still need to do a lot of planting in order to save us from starvation. Juuls...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Spring snow and bugs needing attention
Saturday, 28 September 2024, 12:33pmPlanting from now on is becoming a much better idea. The chances of frost have diminished, but there will be still possibilities...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Native Bees and Mistletoe
Saturday, 21 September 2024, 12:05pmA week or so ago, a wonderful kids book couriered its way to my front door. It’s a book about our native bees in Aotearoa,...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Cool tools for the garden
Saturday, 14 September 2024, 11:58amI’ve been pretty busy in the garden, tunnel house, and grassy building site. That always seem to happen with me just before...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Clematis the Climber
Saturday, 31 August 2024, 12:21pmA few weeks ago we talked about an “early Spring”, simply because I thought some of my plants were flowering a lot sooner...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Hibernating chewers
Saturday, 24 August 2024, 12:42pmA few weeks ago, after that yucky and cold spell in the middle of winter, I was checking my mistletoe to see how it had been...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Pruning back the berries
Saturday, 17 August 2024, 12:06pmBlackcurrants pruning Oh… good old Ribes nigrum! It’s one of our favourite fruits – Juuls makes pretty mean jam out of those...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Winter Colours in the garden
Saturday, 3 August 2024, 1:06pmAfter a few weeks of really misty, cold, and awful weather, I needed to get out of bed and find some inspiration for the...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Tauhou – The Numbers
Saturday, 27 July 2024, 1:35pmA couple of weeks ago we talked about feeding birds in your garden. In view of a decent week off, Jack was training his birds...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Apples for next year
Saturday, 13 July 2024, 11:43amFlowering and fruiting seems like a long way from now, but honestly, it’s time to get out and prune the trees that will give...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Disruptors and invaders
Saturday, 6 July 2024, 11:47amMy dear darling sister (with the beautiful name of Roos) sent me a picture from the Netherlands; it was a pretty orange slug...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: The compost gardeners science quiz
Saturday, 29 June 2024, 12:14pmI’ve always thought about creating the Greatest Hits (or Greatest Myths) for gardeners. There are so many things you should...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: The Walking Tree
Saturday, 22 June 2024, 12:34pmA few weeks ago, the New Zealand Arboriculture Association stunned New Zealanders with a remarkable Tree-of-the-Year competition...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Covering and protecting your garden from frost
Saturday, 8 June 2024, 11:53amWinter is a mere 2 weeks away and that means the coldest periods are very nigh indeed. Frost is –for some plant species–...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Community Gardening and Restoration
Saturday, 1 June 2024, 11:59amA couple of hundred years ago, our Planet and our Aotearoa looked quite different. There were huge forests and wetlands,...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Best practices for pruning trees
Saturday, 25 May 2024, 11:57amI never expected that my degree in Forestry from Wageningen University would come in handy at this late stage of my life. Thank...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Set your traps
Saturday, 18 May 2024, 11:37amEver since moving to Christchurch I have been trapping pests: stoats and possums, rats and mice. Think Predator-Free New...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Garlic Experiments - early planting
Saturday, 11 May 2024, 1:38pmAllium Rust on garlic has become quite an issue of the past 10 years, not just in Canterbury, where I live, but in many places...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: DIY Wasp Control
Saturday, 4 May 2024, 11:36amIn NZ we have five wasp species that can cause problems: three paper wasp species, two Vespula species. First of all, the...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Spectacular plants in autumn
Saturday, 27 April 2024, 12:58pmDo you want something to think about? Something that sets fire to your garden? Go and visit your local Botanic Gardens,...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Fertilisers in Autumn?
Saturday, 20 April 2024, 11:09amLet’s concentrate on the N, P and K. Nitrogen is the stuff that makes plants green; this molecule provides the building...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Bird Science
Saturday, 13 April 2024, 11:25amDespite the nice week or two in Canterbury (noticed the Temperatures in the high twenties, this week?) there comes a time...
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Ruud Kleinpaste: Soil Conditioning and Blackbird vandals
Saturday, 6 April 2024, 1:38pmIt’s time to start thinking about winter and looking after your soil. We all know that garden soil thrives when you add...
