Hand Over a Hundy is a one year challenge to young families to learn to grow and produce their own vegetable gardens. They are sponsored a hundy (or $100) to buy all the essentials for their gardens with the challenge of not only learning the art of gardening but to produce more than they need […]
Wally shares information and advice on growing your own potatoes and imparts a secret technique for producing the best spuds ever.
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 […]
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, […]
I can feel spring in the air and the daffodils are a welcome sight! The dream house is wonderful but the number of slugs and snails in the garden is astounding. Anyway, I am having to make do with the vege beds that are already here for this season until I have time to really […]
