New Potatoes
Recently I was talking to a leading seed potato supplier from the South Island and found out that the new season’s certified seed potatoes were now coming available through garden centres.
Tag: "Vegetable Gardening"
Jun 14, 2010 | 2 comments
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Digger Dan’s Monthly Garden Tips May 2010
Children & the Winter Veggie Garden Central Landscape Supplies This autumn is proving to be a very temperate one – perfect for getting out in the garden. Often children want to help, but parents don’t always know what interesting crops will flourish over winter now that tomatoes, corn and melons are finished. If your children […]
May 26, 2010 | 0 comments
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GARDENING BITS AND PIECES – Wally Richards
It is Saturday in Palmerston North, and while I am writing this, nice showers are wetting the soil and plants are growing in response. It has been a poor spring and summer so far for gardening, but hopefully conditions will improve in February, if they don’t then it’s going to be a bad season overall. […]
Jan 25, 2010 | 3 comments
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Some tips for current problems
I would like to wish all our readers a very Merry Xmas and a Happy Gardening New Year. It is a very great pleasure to bring you gardening information each week and to hear about your successes and problems. Your emails and phone calls contribute a lot to these columns and sometimes when stuck for a […]
Dec 14, 2009 | 2 comments
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Patch from Scratch December’09 – January‘10 – Organic vegetable gardening
With our new baby arriving soon and so many people away over the summer we have decided to let this newsletter cover January as well. We finally got our chickens last weekend, Bella and Rose. One is a Sussex and the other a Barred rock. We are going to be using their manure to put […]
Dec 10, 2009 | 0 comments
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Book Release – Organic Vegetable Gardening Xanthe White
Of all the how-to gardening tips friends and clients could ask of New Zealand’s landscape-design star, Xanthe White says people mostly quiz her about growing veges. It’s clear that vegetable gardening is big again, for both money-saving, eco and health reasons, but many people don’t know how to get growing in the first place. So, […]
Sep 16, 2009 | 2 comments
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Strike while the iron is hot
The met service has reported that we had the warmest August ever since records began with about 1.5 degrees above average, which does not seem a much on those odd cold days, but for a lot of insect pests it means an early arrival. A good hard, cold winter takes its toll on insect populations […]
Sep 07, 2009 | 2 comments
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Wally Richards – Checklist for Spring
The weather may not be the best but each day the daylight hours increase by a few more minutes and our plants and gardens respond to this increasing amount of light. We are only about 6 weeks away from the beginning of spring and there is much to do in this time so that you […]
