Hi there, wondering if anyone knows where to get spray free pea straw in Canterbury? We're wanting to create a bunch of no dig gardens and keen for the pea straw on top to be as close to organic as pos. I found some spray free hay (very few seeds) fr
Read more…Have just discovered my potato plants have become a ladybug nursery. I noticed the leaves were looking brown and nasty, found a little yellow hairy bug on them, which after a little research realised are lady bug lava. Now these are good for the gard
Read more…I am having trouble with the slaters eating my strawberries. Can anyone help me with a cure, preferably a safe chemical free option, so I can continue to scoff my strawberries and not the slaters. This is the second year I have grown them and had n
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'Im looking for some Siberian peashrub seeds for our soon to be established forest garden. You use them like Tree Lucerne, but as well as being a chop and drop N fixer you can also dry the peas and cook them like a dried bean in winter. If an
I planted some last year- male and female together as the garden centre advised. Growing well- BUT... obviously I need to prune back and I have no clue HOW. What do i cut? How much? Any ideas?
Read more…incredible edibles sells it as cocktail kiwifruit
they have some info on pruning down the bottom of page
http://www.edible.co.nz/fruits.php?fruitid=30
Hope it helps..i'm leaving mine for another year I thinks...Donna
Read more…I too would like to try growing elderberry from cuttings if anyone has any spare,,,cheers,
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We have an apple tree which came up out of the compost, presumably from the seed of an ordinary fruit shop apple, and we left it to grow to see what happened. Last season it produced its first apples, smallish red ones and nice to eat.
Recen
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My wife and I are mid process buying an acre just outside of New Plymouth. We are looking to grow a few nut trees on the edge of the planned orchard, but I am not sure what is suitable. We are 6km from the coast, so not particularly ele
Read more…can anyone give me any info on nutcrackers please? Ive been looking around for a while, have seen some very expensive American built ones, then theres windup and down ones which like it would take a fair bit of work to crack heaps of nuts, and ones
Read more…Where can we source asparagus crowns, with reasonable shipping to Taranaki? Preferably organic.
Are there any varieties suited to our rainforest climate? (400m up, a bit cooler than the coast). Our soil is acidic and very free draining (volcanic as
Read more…I put down some pea straw as mulcha couple of months ago and had nice little pea sprouts popping up from the seeds in it. Also, i planted some telephone pea plants.
Both have since started getting brown blemishes on their leaves and stems - worse clo
I planted kumara slips in November 2011and I've just been out to dig up a few to see if they are ready and they are still very small. Every so often, I've been pulling the vines back so they don't wander in the paddock. Does anyone know how long k
Read more…I have a lovely crop of chillis on the plants in my wee glasshouse, but frosts are closing in and Im wondering if I pull up my chilli plants and hang them somewhere, like you do with tomatoes, will the chillis turn red and ripen?
Read more…I want to grow Impatiens from a cutting - in December on Waiheke. It is now flourishing everywhere nearby, on similar sloped land facing the same way as my section. Is it possible to grow it from a small cutting? How big exactly? I have rooting hormo
Read more…Kia ora,
I heard a story that if you cut off most of the top of carrots you can keep them in the ground for a few months without them going woody in the centre. Does any have nay experiemnce of this?
Smiles
Laine
Read more…Does anyone know where I might get choko seeds or plants? I would like to grow a vine next summer.
Read more…Mindspin! :o) A whole new garden to plant, and not sure what ... want it to be sweet to look at & sweet to taste ... lots of fruit! but what?
Have planted a Peach Ingelby. Tahitian Lime and a lemon tree, plus have started a blueberry hedge, am con
Read more…Is anyone growing coffee? Have a 3 yr old plant that is growing well and nearly 1m in height. I don't know if I have 2 problems or if they are related. I have small limpets (my word) on the underneath of leaves and one the stems, either cream in colo
Read more…I have a couple of sunflowers, some still to flower. Anyway one is already losing their petals, so the question is when do I harvest sunflower seeds? this is the first time that I have grown them.
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