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 Fruit 16 August 2026

I dug the holes too early

Two of the six new trees went in today. The other four are still in their bags, because I dug their holes weeks early and found every one full of water.

A feijoa root ball going into its hole
21
Chickens owned
3
Grapefruit relocations
6
New trees this winter
18
Projects planned
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