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Category: Organic Gardening

Digger Dan: November's gardening tips

Digger Dan: November’s gardening tips

Watering, fertilising, planting and feeding: Digger gives us a list of gardening jobs to do this month.

Buy landscape and garden design related books

Buy landscape and garden design related books

A book is always a welcome present for the gardener in your family. Browse a range of selected titles and buy online at discounted prices.

Wally Richards: easy hydroponic gardening

Wally Richards: easy hydroponic gardening

Growing plants by hydroponic methods is very easy and is only as expensive to set up as you wish it to be.

Wally Richards: it's a kinda magic

Wally Richards: it’s a kinda magic

Wally Richards writes that he’s found the greatest gardening product since the invention of the spade.

Wally Richards - getting ready for winter

Wally Richards – getting ready for winter

Now is the time to prepare ourselves and our gardens for winter. We are prompted by advertisements and common sense to prepare for the coming short daylight hours and the cold that winter brings. We endeavour to make ourselves and our homes “as snug as a bug in a rug” by getting in the firewood, […]

Wally Richards - Worms: the gardener's little helper

Wally Richards – Worms: the gardener’s little helper

It’s a fact: earthworms are the greatest garden helpers you can have. The more worms you have in your garden, the healthier your plants will be. Sadly many gardens are lacking in earthworms and often the reason for this is because water soluble fertilisers have been used such as Superphosphate, General Purpose Fertiliser, Rose Fertiliser, […]

All about Citrus

All about Citrus

Citrus trees are a common fruit tree for NZ gardeners and in most areas grow in open ground or in containers with protection during winter.  Citrus trees cross very easily which has created a large number of types over the years. The genus Citrus appears to have originated in Southeast Asia with the following types: […]

January Gardening

January Gardening

There has been a lot of interest and feed back in regards to the recent article about the use of aspirin as a garden spray to assist plants in protecting themselves against diseases and pest insects. The first thing to understand is that any spray of aspirin, is not likely to cure any problem you […]