I am wanting to put some vegetables into container bags for my daughter to take back with her to Uni after the holidays. What do I use to fill the bags up with? A mixture of garden soil and compost, container mix or vegetable mix. I tried asking at a
Read more…Does anyone know how to get in touch with 'Yacon NZ'.? The website has not been updated since 2004 and a letter I sent to an address I got out of Growing Today has come back labelled Gone, left no address. There was quite a lot of publicity written a
Read more…Hi All, I have just bought a Black English Mulberry tree and am trying to workout where to plant it. Is anyone able to tell me how invasive the roots of the tree are and or how far they travel? I believe they can grow to 10m tall (it isn't a dwarf).
Read more…I have a lovely golden queen peach that has always had a little bit of leaf curl, but this year it is much worse. It has set a lovely drop of fruit and I don't want to lose them. Shall I simply ignore the leaf curl or should I spray? and if I spray,
Read more…Any tricks to keeping caterpillars away from the Broccoli? (other than out there every day doing an inspection!) And anyone know how to keep the birds from digging up the soil? I made 2 little rows of mound
Read more…I am gutted. My honey and pearl corn is flopping and at close inspection I've found the stem is discolouring and weakening then flopping over. It's the main stem which produces the tassle. The plants look amazing, really tall, tassles forming, lovely
Read more…My sweet corn plants have unusual shredded damage to the leaves that I don't recognise coming from snails/slugs. Can anyone shed light on this? I'm wondering if it is from earwigs. It's starting to look pretty awful so I'll probably need to put some
Read more…Hi - has anyone tried growing wild passionfruit from a cutting or from seed?
Read more…Next to try is making my own cider vinegar and herb flavoured oils. I had a read on how to etc but not sure what type of containers is the best to store it in after it's been strained and ready for use. I had a look on the Arthur Holmes website and t
Read more…Hi melons and chia are two things I have not had success with each time I have tried germinating the seeds. anyone successfully grown melons from seed? I have tried banana melon, jenny lind and tiger melon without a single seed growing. Another puzzl
Read more…just wondering if anyone knows of an organic fertelizer or another way to help vegies along (make them grow a bit faster)?
Read more…I am wanting to grow a fig tree - does anyone know if I can grow them from seeds?
Read more…Hi All, I'm confused about this. I always thought it was better to have no-dig gardens because you don't want to disturb the soil micro-organisms. But I've just read The Koanga Garden Guide, written by Kay Baxter (she founded koanga gardens and is in
Read more…I am an organic gardener and only use benign pest control (I feed snails to the hens) except sometimes I use a few snail pellets with newly planted seedlings. However something is making holes in my mature silverbeet during the night and I wish I kne
Read more…I purchased a dwarf nectarine tree during the winter. I see it already has quite a lot of fruit on it and it's only a baby. Do I pull the fruit off this year to allow the tree to develop? I know you do with citrus, but can't find any info about this
Read more…Hi Everyone. Planted a young Avocado tree in a likely spot in the garden a couple of weeks ago. It has looked pretty sad since then. Droopy and wilted leaves all the time - except 1st thing in the morning when it seems to have recovered a bit. It's n
Read more…Hi. First off I'm wondering where to look in NZ for soil testing. Every website and video I see online talks about it but they all refer to the American system I think. Secondly, is it really that necessary to test your soil? Especially if you're do
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