Vege beds that actually produce

Christchurch grows excellent vegetables — garlic and broad beans through winter, tomatoes and courgettes all summer — but beds need turning over, feeding and replanting on time or they slide into weed patches. Barnleigh 2000 keeps home vege gardens productive across the growing year.

Winter beds get dug over and manured, spring brings the first plantings after the last frost risk, and summer is staking, watering and succession sowing so the harvest does not stall in February. Spent crops are cleared and composted rather than left to seed everywhere.

• Seasonal dig-over, feeding and replanting.
• Raised beds built up and topped with compost.
• Staking, watering routines and succession planting.
• Spent crops cleared and green waste removed.

New to growing? A first visit can set up a simple year-round rotation for your beds — silverbeet and herbs for beginners, brassicas once the soil is going. Holiday watering cover while you are away is worth asking about too.