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I am a student with little money and I have found that commercial fertilisers and soil mixes are very expensive. I live in an area with heavy clay soils, so conditioning it is a must! Does anyone have any advice about a cheap and simple
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I planted broad bean in feb and they are healthy looking plants, other than a bit of wind damage on one or two. However, they have been flowering for months and no pods have set. The only thing I can think of is I had sugar snaps in the same plac
Read more…Has anyone done the Healthy Growing training programme by Geoff Buckley? He always sends me emails recommending I do his course, but I wanted to know what it is like before paying.
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We are on a sloping, windy, urban section in coastal Christchurch but have planted a good selection of fruit trees (Feijoa, Lemon Meyer, Apricot, Plumcot, Conference Pears, Apple trees). They are all 2 or 3 years old now and most (not the p
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Can anyone tell me when they dig in their nitrogen crops? I have lupins in half my vege patches but have not grown them before. I often notice the garden of an elderly lady that I walk past on the way to work. She dug her lupins in yesterday an
Read more…We just got a lot of plants, mostly berry canes and lavenders, from the organic farm of a friend who is selling up. We had to dig them out, and many are close to bare root at the moment.
Since we aren't far enough advanced in the plan for our land to
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I am after some information or advice on the state of my rhubarb. The stalks are about 60mm x 20mm thick and only get a slight tinge of red on them, the leaves are quite large and totally cover all the stems. When I pull the stalks out an
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…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…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…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.
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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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…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…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?
Read more…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…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…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…I've got lots of green stuff to go into the compost bin now the tomatoes and borage are ready to come out - and think I probably need some manure. Anyone got recommendations for good sources around Auckland?
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