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Tag: "Plant Health"

Improving your crops & gardens

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 […]

Patch from Scratch  December’09 - January‘10 - Organic vegetable gardening

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 […]

BUXUS DISEASE – Problems with box hedging

BUXUS DISEASE – Problems with box hedging

A very popular ornamental shrub commonly known as Buxus or Boxwood and often grown as a border plant, trimmed to keep compact for a more formal type setting. In the past thousands of these plants have been produced by nurseries to satisfy the demand from gardeners wanting to establish box hedges. The same plants have […]

Combating Diseases

Combating Diseases

Gardeners can spend a lot of time and money combating diseases in their gardens. Many of the conventional chemical sprays can be likened to many medications put out by the pharmacy industry; in so much as they give temporary relief without curing the cause. In fact it is my strong belief that many of the […]