Shopping for food in NZ...
Feb 6th 2011, 9:11 am
#92
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Location: Bay of Plenty
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Re: Shopping for food in NZ...
My fruit trees (lemon, orange & mandarin) do rather well. I'm waiting for the grapefruit & my Bramley apple to catch up. I'm getting an excellent crop of peppers this year. Strawberries, blueberries & tomatoes have produced but the birds keep getting to them despite the chicken wire & netting 
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Chilli peppers grow well too. Have had success with watermelons in the past too.
I wish I could grow a successful money tree though
.Chilli peppers grow well too. Have had success with watermelons in the past too.
I wish I could grow a successful money tree though
If you have any unused or junk DVDs or CDs, try popping them upright in the earth next to your beloved plants. I used some and did not use any netting at all. Apparently the birds get a distorted reflection of some strange and scary beastie moving just as they land.... so they take straight off!
Feb 6th 2011, 3:51 pm
#94
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Re: Shopping for food in NZ...
Dear Members,
I have been reading your comments on this site such a long time ago. Belongs to the truth that I am hungarian, and currently live in Hungary, but months ago I got my PR to New Zealand, and this july we are going to move to Auckland or Wellington to start a new life there.
We visited NZ and AU 2 years ago, and we found that food prices not as bad as we thought before. Yes, I know it was 2 yrs ago, but the prices was somewhere the same as in Hungary. And we had no problems with the quality also.
I am writing just to let you know (if anyone cares) that how the prices vs. incomes are related in Hungary.
Check this excel, and guess which country is a rip-off.
Ps.: GST is 25%, Petrol/liter in the excel, Income is for one average person (cashier, bus-driver, policemen) after tax/month,
I have been reading your comments on this site such a long time ago. Belongs to the truth that I am hungarian, and currently live in Hungary, but months ago I got my PR to New Zealand, and this july we are going to move to Auckland or Wellington to start a new life there.
We visited NZ and AU 2 years ago, and we found that food prices not as bad as we thought before. Yes, I know it was 2 yrs ago, but the prices was somewhere the same as in Hungary. And we had no problems with the quality also.
I am writing just to let you know (if anyone cares) that how the prices vs. incomes are related in Hungary.
Check this excel, and guess which country is a rip-off.
Ps.: GST is 25%, Petrol/liter in the excel, Income is for one average person (cashier, bus-driver, policemen) after tax/month,
Last edited by DenyVL; Feb 6th 2011 at 3:58 pm.
