I mean fibre’s pretty solid no matter who you go through. I’m still on 2degrees after about 10 years. I don’t really need to interact with them in anyway outside of the signing up process.

Umm, 9.2 out of 12.7. Mainly cause I don’t like how they got acquired by vocus.

Honestly we couldn’t get into a good GP practice when we moved about 5 years ago, they were pretty much all not taking new enrolments. In fact the one that we did want to enrol at is still not taking new patients.

Some of them are now really strict and enforce time limits for appointments, not allowed to bring up more than one issue unless you make a double appointment. We had an amazing GP when my first daughter was born, always took time to answer any questions and never rushed us and gave lots of recommendations to look at.

Since moving away we haven’t had great experiences through a few different practices.

I’m enjoying it a lot more than I thought I would. I had to restart the other day though because I messed up and ended up not be able to get Wyll or Karlach into my party.

Got a load of compost being dropped off this morning, prepping myself to move it as fast as I can so as to not block our driveway. Feels good to be getting the garden and raised beds ready for Spring.

It’s not very large and kind of oddly shaped, but the previous owner did nothing with it so it was all grass when we moved in. Each year I turn a bit more of it into planting space. I’m at the point I’m thinking of just wood chipping the rest of the lawn next autumn so I can plant anywhere from then on. Also bonus is I won’t have to mow it anymore.

Don’t overthink it too much, you’d be surprised what you can still grow in suboptimal conditions. I experiment all the time with different plants in different locations to see how well they grow, sometimes bad sometimes good.

Every year I would do many trips to buy bags of compost slowly, I decided this year just to buy it from a landscaping place and get it delivered. It’s a bit more expensive but I can get 1000L at once instead of 40L bags. I still can’t create enough compost myself for the whole garden.

Leafy stuff still does fine with indirect light, it may grow a bit slower and smaller but it’ll still grow. If you’re in Auckland or above there’s barely a winter anyway :) In fact my outdoors sweet pepper plant is still alive here in Hamilton!

Do you have any outdoor space for pots and planters? You could always just do fresh herbs which is nice to have on hand for cooking,

I can vouch for No Dig as well, I’ve been doing it for about 6-7 years. All you need is compost :) It’s just too bad I can never make enough of my own…

I usually use grass clippings too. My normal issue is getting enough browns. All our trees and shrubs we’ve put in ourselves, so they’re all small that pruning doesn’t really create much material. Have to make do with newspapers and cardboard.

I’ve slowly started to incorporate permaculture concepts to my gardening, so I’m planning to grow more plants for mulching and composting but its a bit of a balancing act in our small section