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Apr 29, 2010 | 3 comments
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More about fruit – Wally Richards
After last week’s article on fruit a reader sent me an email with further information about how good fruit is for you, this is especially so when you grow your own fruiting plants because you have the control on what minerals and chemicals are used or not used. I would like to share the information […]
Mar 22, 2010 | 0 comments
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Fruit for you – Wally Richards
Home grown fruit, grown naturally (without chemicals) with all the minerals and elements added to the growing medium, have very high nutritional values plus health giving properties. When you combine that with your own naturally grown vegetables and these two form a good part of your food chain then your health will be better for […]
Looking at Lawns
Autumn is the ideal time to sow new lawns or patch up existing ones. When the autumn rains begin to moisten up the soil is the perfect time to sow lawn seed. With a little additional watering you can keep the soil moist allowing seeds to germinate and establish. Then the new grasses have the rest of autumn, […]
Feb 22, 2010 | 13 comments
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Wally Richards – getting your flower gardens ready for autumn
Well gardeners, its mid February already and the last month of summer, not that it has seemed much like summer for most of us over the last couple of months, but that’s the weather for you. Now is time to look around your annual flowering plants in containers and gardens to see what is going […]
Feb 20, 2010 | 0 comments
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Gardening in February
February is the last month of summer and the time when many pest insects have built up big populations, if you have not been on the ball with your controls. It is very easy to miss a build up and then a lot harder to gain control. I got caught out recently with my zucchini […]
Feb 15, 2010 | 0 comments
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Improving your crops & gardens
Many gardeners are always looking for ways to improve their gardens whether it be vegetables, roses, ornamentals or fruit trees. Their goal is to have very healthy plants, wonderful roses, great lawns and excellent crops. There are a number of things that you can do to improve your gardens by improving your soils. The optimum is to […]
Feb 08, 2010 | 2 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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