Kent & Stowe Garden Secateurs

If you're stuck on what to gift friends and family this holiday season, we've put together some of our top gift ideas. From beautifully crafted Kent & Stowe tools to the Tui Worm Farm, Tui In-ground Composter and some of our most popular bird feeders - there's sure to be the perfect gift for the gardener in your life.

Discover Diane's colourful spread, which is also great as a dip, and makes the most of whatever herbs and edible blooms you're growing at home.

While Halloween has roots in ancient traditions celebrating the end of autumn harvests many of the plants associated with Halloween carry their own rich meanings and stories.

My father Fred was famous for his tomatoes. His vines produced prolifically, and the fruit was always amazingly sweet and flavoursome. For Fred, growing good tomatoes was all about seaweed. Once or twice a year, we kids would be enlisted to help him gather the fine seagrass weed that grew in the tidal estuaries around Pauatahanui. Vast rafts of this stinky stuff would wash up after a big storm and we would walk for miles to fill big sacks of the stuff, then lug them back down the long beach before the tide got too high. The sacks were so heavy it always took two of us to hiff them into the boot.

Potatoes are a firm Kiwi favourite and a treat on the table from summer through to autumn - consecutive planting means you can enjoy them for months on end. Sweet waxy and delicate, they were almost the best part of the Christmas banquet! Follow our top tips for a bumper crop of tasty homegrown spuds.