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  • Heritage Tomatoes in the Koanga Collection

    Growing Potatoes, Tomatoes and Peppers with Psyllids!
    by Kay Baxter and Scott Lawson (first published in the July 2011 Koanga Institute Catalogue.) Many gardeners, and small and large commercial growers have lost entire potato crops and even old seed...

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Kay's Home Garden

I'm still going on about the need to seriously plan for resilience in our gardens.  Would you survive through to next Spring on the produce you harvested from your garden this Autumn?  What do you think you need to learn to get it better next season? Read more…

What's Happening

Get an update on the latest projects and events. Read more...

 

NZ Heritage Potatoes in Danger!

Updates on our potato trial can be found here.

In the Spring of 2011, we launched a comprehensive Potato Program to save our NZ heritage potatoes. Read Full Article Here.... We asked for 50 people to sponsor a potato each to enable this trial to go ahead. Thank you to all those who sponsored spuds ... our thank you list is here.

Koanga Gardens - Centre for Sustainable Living

2011-12 Koanga Gardens Catalogue, is out now! Full colour edition with photographs and details of all the Koanga Gardens range seeds. Koanga Institute NZ Members receive a Free Copy with their Insititute catalogue in the post - make sure your subscription is valid to ensure you get your copy!!

Koanga Seeds are NZ heritage seeds, grown organically in New Zealand. They are selected for taste, nutrition and disease resistance. They are from our past, for our Future.