Raspberry propagation
I have a delicious thornless black raspberry which I think is called Ebony. When and how do I take cuttings from it so we can enjoy more berries next year?
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Buying garlic and shallot bulbs
I want to buy some garlic and shallot bulbs to plant this winter. Does anyone know where I can get them as I can't find much on line. I would love some banana shallots, but not sure if they are in NZ? Sam
Read more…Rusty silverbeet! yikes!!
My siverbeet is growing well... but it is getting brown rusty spots on it...I think it is some kind of fungus. I do not like to use chemicals on my garden-does anyone know how to combat this problem of rusty greens?
Read more…Citrus and apple tree spacing
So a couple of weeks ago we planted out a tahitian lime, satsuma mandarin, and meyer lemon. They're spaced about 1.5 metres apart, and I've since realised that we were a bit over zealous and should have researched it first because they'r Read more…
Virgin Gardener wants winter vege advice
I grew my first crop of tomatoes over summer and had SO many I made my first batch of relish and then had so many more I had to make a second batch.
My potatoes did very poor (I remember my grandparents harvesting millions of nuggets). But the one me
Read more…Whats your favorite potato variety?
What are you successes and failures, interested to know what other people like to grow?
This season I planted agria, cliffs kidney and some maori potato. I got a very good crop, but i had a mystery rogue potato that outdid all my planted ones. They
Read more…Society garlic
Has anyone else used the pretty mauve flowers of the Tulbagia (society garlic) in an edible capacity? I used it on a salmon gravlax a few weeks ago and it was lovely.
Crop rotation - putting theory into practice
I find it very difficult to use a traditional crop rotation as I am constantly putting more in and taking things out. The transition from summer garden to winter garden is perplexing for me. The most simple plan seems to be leaf - fruit - root. I und
Read more…runner beans flowering but no fruit
I hope someone can help - I have runner bean plants that are healthy, with lots of flowering, but have had no fruit at all. They are grown out of the wind, regualr watering but from seeds that I had from last year (which also did not fruit, but did n
Read more…Tulbagia
I used the pretty purple flowers of the "society garlic" tulbagia a few weeks ago on a gravlax salmon dish and wondered if anyone else had used them in an edible capacity?
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whats this on my pears?
does anyone know what this disease is I have on my three semi-dwarf pear trees? It just seems to be affecting the skin, not the flesh. I have to peel them to eat them. There doesnt seem to be any other part of the tree affected, a little bit maybe
Read more…Spinach seedings falling over
My spinach seedlings have germinated well but as they grow bigger it seems they don't have enough strength to stand upright and they are falling over. Is this normal or am I doing something wrong like overwatering? They are about 6cm high.
Read more…Okra
I have tried growing this many times without sucess, the seeds just don't germinate, or it they do they get to a couple of centimetres and then die. Soom wwoofers got a bit enthusiastic in the seeds they were planting and now I have 50 or so seedling
Read more…foam on seedlings
I am raising my own seedlings.
I water them once to twice a day.
I watered them this morming and the rocket had this foam on it I removed it before I took a photo. Oops
But its weird. It looks like building foam insulation but is gooey inside like a
Read more…Tamarillo's and Celeriac in Waikato
Hi there, could anyone help me with a couple of questions? I'm growing celeriac and tamarillo's for the first time. When do I need to cover the tamarillo's? and I have conflicting info about whether to cover the tops of my celeriac with soil or not
Read more…Black soot/mould on passionfruit
HI all,
I have a 3 year old passionfruit vine and have noticed mould on parts of it this week. It is mainly on fruit - on the stem where it joins the fruit as well as the top quarter of the fruit itself. It has been very dry here so don't think dampn
Read more…Why graft fruit trees
I've been doing a lot of reading about grafting fruit trees, however so far there has been no real explanation as to why??
If you have a very good apple or pear for exaample why not just take a cutting to grow?? Surely this would grow as fast as anyt
Read more…Worm Farms
I am looking into buying a worm farm (The Warehouse) has anybody got got one?
Do they prefer full sun, semi shade, all shade??? Any tips on sorting kitchen scraps?
Read more…Stop woodlice eating strawberries?
Netting is successfully keeping the birds from our strawberries, which are planted in an old circular concrete trough, but now the ripening fruit is getting eaten from beneath by woodlice. Does anyone know of an (organic) deterrant?
Read more…Growing tomatoes
Our tomatoe plants are growing really well in our hot house and flowering profusely, but they are dropping the flowers and therefore not setting any fruit. Any ideas? A tomatillo in the same hothouse is performing in exactly the same way. Could it
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