EDIBLE GARDENS (New Zealand) Ltd

Helping you to stay fit and enjoy a long, fruitful life

Part of the award winning PLANTET EARTH landscape design company, EDIBLE GARDENS Ltd is at the forefront of Edible Garden implementation and design. EDIBLE GARDENS is a New Zealand owned company, proud to serve you in the exciting new concept of EDIBLE GARDENS.

EDIBLE GARDENS provides the plants and designs to get you started in your own beautiful home garden.

From seed to compost EDIBLE GARDENS is your perfect home gardening partner.

Looking to start your own Edible Garden?

EDIBLE GARDENS is New Zealand’s foremost provider of Edible Garden products and design. Based in Auckland, our gardens are located all over New Zealand. We provide practical information and an unparalleled catalogue of delicious garden delights – Edible Gardens NZ has everything you need to create or improve your existing Edible Garden.

Contact EDIBLE GARDENS NZ for orders or initial inquiries – we’re than happy to help!

Providing you with affordable, extravagant Edible Garden Ideas.

Starting and maintaining your own Edible Garden may seem overwhelming! Let EDIBLE GARDENS get you moving in the right direction. We provide Edible Garden Ideas for any sized space, drawing on years of experience, Edible Gardens Ideas can turn you personal garden in to a luxurious producer of herbs, flowers, seeds, fruits and vegetables.

EDIBLE GARDENS also offers ideas for Organic Composting, Worm Farming, and Square Foot Gardening.

Let our top Edible Experts help you design and maintain your personal garden with new and exciting Edible Garden Ideas.

Need help designing your Edible Garden?

Do you have an empty space on your property that needs some tender love and care?

Edible Garden Design is a complex balance of sunlight, water, space, and choosing the right fruit, herbs, vegetables, and flowers.

EDIBLE GARDENS can answer all your questions and help you design the perfect garden for your unique living space. Let us simplify the design process with our years of experience and personal care. After an excellent Edible Garden Design takes root you will soon have a bountiful garden, adding to the ambiance of your home – while providing great tasting, natural health remedies with every meal.

Auckland Flower Show – Edible Gardens Display 2008

Jules Moore of EDIBLE GARDENS presented a “taste of things to come” in an edible garden exhibit for the Auckland Flower Show. “We’re thinking outside the square when it comes to a planted border,” says Jules. “The big trend is to grow your own food, and there’s no reason that it can’t be done in a formal, but visually tasty way.”

Excerpt Taken From: News Release AUCKLAND FLOWER SHOW

For more information visit: web.mydns.net.nz.theflowershow.co.nz

Composting for Your EDIBLE GARDEN.

Recycling waste in an efficient manner holds great benefits for your EDIBLE GARDEN. As well as being rich in minerals – essential for healthy plants, home composting eases your green footprint, and saves money, eliminating the need to buy expensive fertilizers for your EDIBLE GARDEN. There are numerous ways to do home composting, and EDIBLE GARDENS experts can help you find the most efficient method for your EDIBLE GARDEN.

Interested in Composting? Be sure to ask EDIBLE GARDENS about WORM FARMS.

EDIBLE GARDENS (New Zealand) Ltd

Welcome to the wonderful world of gardening! Exciting and full of health benefits, home gardening (Edible Gardens) are easy to maintain, add to the beauty of your work or living space, and offer a harvest of natural remedies for illness, teaching tools for children, and of course: edible fruit, herbs, flowers, and vegetables! Edible Gardens provide the expertise and personal touch to get you started or help you revamp your Edible Garden.

Contact us today for information and a catalogue of produce for your Edible Garden!

Want to eat better and feel healthier?

Edible Gardens – Organic Gardening at Home!

Concerned about pesticides and other chemicals that contaminate your food? EDIBLE GARDENS’ staff believes in the nutritional values of organic gardening – and knows how to get you started. With a holistic view of Organic Gardening: from recycling compost to Organic seeds, EDIBLE GARDENS’ experts have over twenty-five years of experience and can move you through the process from buying, to creating delicious dishes with your homegrown organic harvest. Organic Gardening is simple and easy, our staff can help to meet your specific needs and environment.

Contact us now to get Organic Gardening information – the harvest won’t happen until you do!

Grow your appetite for an edible garden!

Edible Plants for your Home Garden come in all shapes and sizes, from health-giving hearty potatoes to miniature flavour filled blueberries. Having designed every imaginable type of garden EDIBLE GARDENS’ staff are happy to get you started on this culinary lifestyle change. Everything about Edible Plants speaks to the soul; the soil, the harvest, the satisfaction of watching your plants grow!

If you have any questions about Edible Plants, our staff at EDIBLE GARDENS are here to serve you!

EDIBLE GARDENS – An introduction to the Edible Flower Garden

Edible Flower Gardens are a unique offshoot of the EDIBLE GARDEN phenomenon. Thriving on small city patios, and adorning some of the most ornate country gardens - edible flower gardens add the finishing touch to anyone’s garden. Edible Flower Gardens need to meet the individual tastes, often complementing other flavors such as Chamomile tea, the Coriander in Salsa, in other words: you should grow what you eat.

EDIBLE GARDENS staff are available to match your tastes with the Edible Flower Garden for you!

EDIBLE GARDENS presents Edible Flowers

Edible Flowers are an excellent source of beauty and flavor. EDIBLE GARDENS designs flower gardens for your living space. Here is a list of some of the fantastic edible flowers you can grow.

• Angelica: A celery-flavored flower that lends itself to fish
• Basil: A lemony mint flavor; popular in pesto sauce. No true Italian lives without one growing in their Edible Garden
• Bee Balm: Used to make tea, similar to Earl Grey
• Carnation: A spicy, peppery flower
• Chamomile: Another tea favorite this flower has a faint apple flavor
• Coriander: A major ingredient in salsa
• Fennel: A sweet licorice flavor
• Honeysuckle: A personal favorite – just don’t eat this sweet flowers berries (highly poisonous)
• Jasmine: Another tea with a delicate sweet flavor
• Lilac: Very floral, very pungent lemony flavor
• Rose: A sweet, strong, aromatic flavor
• Violet: A sweet nectar

WARNING: there are many flowers to avoid – please contact EDIBLE GARDENS for a comprehensive list of Edible Flowers.

Wanting to plant a garden, but don’t know where to start?

EDIBLE GARDENS specialists, with over 25 years of horticulture expertise, can help you get started. Understanding the unique nature of every individual, living space, and garden, EDIBLE GARDENS’ staff are ready to help you begin the dream of owning your own garden.

Take a breath – enjoy the fresh feeling of dirt in your fingers, the smell of strawberries, and the taste of a homegrown tomato! EDIBLE GARDENS – Helping people enjoy a long and fruitful life!

Home Gardens – a Growing Trend

EDIBLE GARDENS, an offshoot of Plantet Earth Ltd, is specialized in the design and integration of Home Gardens. This new concept, also called EDIBLE GARDENS, is the Garden everyone can plant, grow, and reap the healthy benefits from in the comfort of their own living space. Whether you’ve cultivated a garden your whole life, or are interested as an amateur, EDIBLE GARDENS’ designers can help you personalize and nurture your very own garden.

Revitalize with nature, replenish with healthy food – get started in gardens with us today!

Worm Farm Composting for your EDIBLE GARDEN

Worm farm compost is some of the richest compost to use on your EDIBLE GARDEN. Decreasing your bin waste, this form of composting is easy to maintain and an excellent way to recycle on a small scale yet extremely beneficial level.

Questions about balancing how much waste your Worm Farm can handle, what waste can be placed in your Worm Farm, where to place your Worm Farm, how to fertilize your EDIBLE GARDEN with Worm Farm “tea” and many more questions can be answered by EDIBLE GARDENS experts.

Let EDIBLE GARDENS help set up your Worm Farm.

Square Foot Gardening Design by Edible Gardens NZ

Half the cost of regular gardening, and less than half the space and water – Square Foot Gardening is a wonderful option for your first Edible Garden. Used globally, this method is simply taking a small, framed square meter, adding soil and seed. Due to it’s condensed nature the process is less wasteful than normal gardening, takes less of your time, and actually produces larger harvests than other methods of gardening.

Inquire with our EDIBLE GARDENS staff to get started today on your Square Foot Garden.

The image below is of the bountiful harvest that comes from Square Foot Gardening.

Planting an Edible Garden? Here are some Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Will planting an edible garden be expensive?

A: While there are some initial costs for planting your own edible garden, maintaining them is relatively cheap, and the harvest and health benefits far outweigh any expense. Each project is also scaleable to your own needs and budget.

Q: How much space do I need to plant an Edible Garden?

A: An excellent question, this all depends on the scale of your garden. EDIBLE GARDENS’ staff are experts in gardens of any size – from kitchen window sill herb gardens to flourishing backyard fruit trees. So consider the produce you are most interested in harvesting and our staff will help you in pick out the best options for the space available.

Q: What are the benefits of planting an EDIBLE GARDEN?

A: The benefits of planting and harvesting the produce of your Edible Garden are vast. From dietary immunization benefits to personal satisfaction, Edible Gardens greatly increase the aesthetic of any house, or living space. The educational opportunities of raising and eating your own produce is something no child should miss. Along with all this – imagine biting down into your own home grown strawberries – need we say more?

Please inquire with EDIBLE GARDENS expert staff with any further questions you might have.

An Amazing Educational Tool: EDIBLE GARDENS

EDIBLE GARDENS recently initiated an in-school project to educate our young children about the benefits of home gardening.
EDIBLE GARDENS offers:

• Educational interactive activities tailored to meet each school’s specific curriculum
• Maori traditional food, medicine courses, and the planting of Native flora
• A unique list of fruit and edible plants for each school to meet their specific needs (Taro and Yacon, Lemons and Mandarines, etc.)
• A vegetable garden within the school to teach home growing techniques and cooking lessons from home grown produce
• Nature lessons, such as bird identification, sounds and carvings
• Eco-design aspects of composting and worm farming

EDIBLE GARDENS is currently working on two extensive projects within the educational sector. Please contact us for viewing or more information about our Edible Gardens in Schools.

No one cares for plants like Edible Gardens NZ.

EDIBLE GARDENS is a branch of Plantet Earth that helps you choose the perfect plants for your home, formal garden, school, or work place. Because we know the intrinsic value of planting, growing, and harvesting, or just nurturing your home and garden plants EDIBLE GARDENS has the perfect mix of personable service and expertise.

Our Plant Experts are waiting to help you choose the perfect plant for you!

EDIBLE GARDENS presents an Apple and Blackberry Pie Recipe

Apple and Blackberry Pie
Sweet short pastry recipe

1 cup flour
1/3 c sugar
20z butter
1 egg yolk

Mix until light pastry is formed, roll into a sausage and refrigerate for an hour.

Bring out of fridge and cut into 1/2 cm pieces place around the bottom of the pie dish and push into each other until nice and flat and coming up the sides.

Bake for 10 minutes at 180 degrees. Save enough pastry for a lattice top.

Roll out into 14 strips and flatten with your hand (ensure it is on a floured board so they are easy to pick up).

For the filling 6 x Granny smith apples peeled and cut into 8 pieces. Dust these apples in flour.

1 x thumbnail of finely chopped ginger
100g of caster sugar
150g blackberries (or blueberries, rhubarb, or any other berry)
1 egg
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

Simmer together for 5 minutes, pour into lightly baked pie pastry and top with lattice.

Bake until lattice is golden brown…in a 150-degree oven.

Highlighted items above can be grown in your own Edible Garden!

EDIBLE GARDENS provides 25 years of experience to help you grow, harvest and enjoy the fresh taste of Apple Pie.

EDIBLE GARDENS presents a Lemon and Lime Tart Recipe

Lemon and Lime Tart

Sweet short pastry – roll out and blind bake in oven for 10 minutes.

4 large eggs
1 ¾ cups caster sugar
Zest of 2 lemons
Zest of 2 limes
1/3 cup lemon juice
1/3 cup lime juice
1/3 cup sifted flour

Optional:  Add ½ cup of cream

Whisk eggs and sugar together until thick and pale.

Add lemon juice and zest, then flour.

Pour over HOT crust and bake for further approx 30 minutes at 140 degrees until set.

Cool completely before cutting. Dredge with icing sugar to serve.

Highlighted items above can be grown in your own Edible Garden!

EDIBLE GARDENS provides 25 years of experience to help you grow, harvest and enjoy the fresh taste of a Homemade Tart.

EDIBLE GARDENS providing Lemon and Lime Information.

Lemon and Lime TIPS and FACTS:

• Plant in a sunny and sheltered position, and feed in the Spring for best results.
• Lemons have many properties like cleansing or detoxing and are great to use for the common cold.
• Lemons improve circulation and are used to treat varicose veins and kidney stones, minor cuts, fevers and.
• The lemon peel has stomachic properties. It’s a great antioxidant and this is due to its high vitamin “C” content.
• The lemon is also the main ingredient for lemonade, sorbet ice, salad dressings and marinades.
• The lemon juice is used in making cheese and the pectin contained in lemons (peel and pith) helps to set jams and jellies.
• Externally, lemons can soothe poisonous stings and insect bites, eczema, chilblains, sunburn and make a great gargle for sore throats.
• Lemons cleanse or decongest the kidneys and liver and help with constipation and cellulite. Lemon juice on the skin can clear up complexions or treat cuts and minor wounds.
• The zest of the lemon peel has many culinary uses and the whole lemon peel is used to make marmalade.

EDIBLE GARDENS can help you plant and cultivate Lemon or Lime Trees in your own EDIBLE GARDEN!

EDIBLE GARDENS presents a GREEN LEAFY SALAD Recipe

Green Leafy Salad Recipe

Rocket leaves
Sweet basil
Baby coriander
Loose lettuce leaves
Baby red onions
Radish
Parsley
Sprouts
Native herbs to taste
Vinaigrette

Extra virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, lime, honey, garlic, whole seed mustard.

Mix olive oil, whole seed mustard, and vinegar, shake together and add zest of lime and lime juice.  Optional: add a clove of garlic, tsp of honey and a leaf of basil, coriander or tarragon.

Highlighted items above can be grown in your own Edible Garden!

EDIBLE GARDENS provides 25 years of experience to help you grow, harvest and enjoy this Homemade Salad Recipe.

EDIBLE GARDENS present Fresh Homemade Pancakes

Pancakes bombarded with Berries

1 cup milk
1 cup flour or rice flour
1 egg
1 tsp butter

Mix together.
Ladle a thin coating to a frypan with hot olive oil and gently rotate around the pan, flip and tip onto a plate.

Serve with maple syrup and fresh or stewed berries.

Highlighted items above can be grown in your own Edible Garden!

EDIBLE GARDENS provides 25 years of experience to help you grow, harvest and enjoy Homemade Pancakes.

Passionfruit Yoghurt with Fresh Fruit Salad Recipe

EDIBLE GARDENS presents a Succulent Fresh Fruit Salad

Fresh Fruit Salad (high in vitamins C,  A, E, and B, also particularly good as brain food)

Guavas
Berries
Cranberries
Yaccon
Figs
Blueberries
Blackberries
Boysenberries
Mandarins
Lime ginger flowers
Feijoas

Chop and Serve Fresh with homemade passionfruit yoghurt and a Sprig of Mint.

Highlighted items above can be grown in your own Edible Garden!

EDIBLE GARDENS provides 25 years of experience to help you grow, harvest and enjoy Fresh Fruit Salad.

EDIBLE GARDENS presents a Homemade Lemonade Recipe

Homemade Lemonade with Kawakawa and Ginger

Old fashioned Lemonade
1½ cups honey or 1 cup sugar, you
can use less sugar if you prefer a tarter taste
1 cup water
1 cup lemon juice
2 cups of water
Ginger root
Kawakawa leaves (steeped)

Make a simple sugar syrup, 1st by dissolving the sugar in the boiling water and simmering for 3 minutes.  Add the rest of your water, lemon juice, ginger root and Kawakawa leaves and leave to stand for 15 minutes. Chill for an hour and serve with ice.

To make the lemonade pink you can add a cup of raspberry juice, black currant juice, blueberry juice, or any other fruit
juice and add 1 cup of water per cup of pure juice.

Highlighted items above can be grown in your own Edible Garden!

EDIBLE GARDENS provides 25 years of experience to help you grow, harvest and enjoy the fresh taste of Homemade Lemonade.

Gardening Pleasures in the comfort of your home.

EDIBLE GARDENS are not just for the outdoor types! Edible Indoor Gardens, the sheik new fashion of EDIBLE GARDENS, allow for fresh healthy produce in the home. Imagine the joys of harvesting your own herbs to sprinkle over your amazed guest’s dinner, or waking up on a summer morning to the smell of Nectarines.

Contact our award-winning design staff to hear more exciting ideas for your edible garden.

Edible Fruit Plants Year Round!

EDIBLE GARDENS can keep you eating healthy all year round. Rotating crops keep you in a constant supply of fresh produce. Here is a sample list of seasonal Edible Fruit Plants:

Let’s get planting!

Which Berries are best for your EDIBLE GARDEN?

The berry, a small edible fruit, is the delight of any EDIBLE GARDEN. Drawing ripe red raspberries off your own garden vine and cutting them over a bowl of ice-cream – lets you know why EDIBLE GARDENS are the up and coming gardening trend. The first question most ask is which Edible Berries can I grow? EDIBLE GARDENS provides a wide variety of native New Zealand and tropical berries.

EDIBLE GARDENS’ catalogue of berries, combined with our expertise – can help you find what berries will grow best in your EDIBLE GARDEN.

Container Gardening for your EDIBLE GARDEN

At EDIBLE GARDENS, we like to think outside of the square – but occasionally all that free thinking still fits in the tidy confines of a box. Container Gardening is a method of maximizing a small area for high produce. Using planter boxes, hanging baskets, large flowerpots, and an assortment of other barrels or containers your patio, or deck can become a floral delight, sprouting succulent fruits and vegetables the belies the actual amount of growing space.

So no matter what size your growing needs, Inquire Now about Container Gardening and get started on your EDIBLE GARDEN today.

Herbs – an essential element of your EDIBLE GARDEN

Long esteemed as Natural Remedies, Herbs provide the key ingredients in most recipes, and until you’ve tried pesto made from your own fresh basil – you don’t know the culinary ecstasy your missing. Herbs that might grow well in your EDIBLE GARDEN include:

General Herbs: Basil, Bay Leaf, Chives, Dill, Garlic, Mint, Oregano, Parsely, Rosemary and Sage

For French Dishes: Chervil, Marjoram, Tarragon, and Thyme

For Asian Dishes: Cilantro (Coriander), and Lemon Grass

The list goes on and on – imagine the rich flavors at your fingertips! Start your EDIBLE GARDEN today and enjoy!