Several gardeners have contacted me recently because their stone fruit trees have leaf curl damage. Unfortunately for these gardeners they have already lost the battle this season in controlling the disease. Curly leaf is a difficult one so I did a little research on the Internet and came up with the following from the University […]
Recently I received a couple of new tips which might be of interest to you.
I am always interested in any new variety of fruit that comes available to the home garden market. The nursery, Incredible edibles, will soon be releasing a newly breed bramble called ‘Thornless Jewell’. Breed by Plant & Food Research to produce a thornless bramble with easy care and a good flavour.
The New Zealand Food Safety Authority and the Environmental Risk Management Authority need to adopt the European Union method of assessing chemicals used on food the Green Party said today.
Citrus trees are valuable plants for anyone’s garden, not only will they supply you with a bounty of fruit every year; they are also an attractive, highly scented tree. In fact I cannot think of another fruiting plant that has such a delicious perfume when in flower. Citrus trees are a long term, fruiting tree […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
