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Potting bench

I buy a lot of my gardening equip, seeds, plants, etc of Trade Me (prior to discovering Oooby) but thought Id share this with you... This man in Te Kuiti sells potting benches for $32 each plus courier, and they are quite good quality kitset benches.

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Fruit cages

Does anyone have experience in building fruit cages. I don't mind sharing some of my fruit with birds, but I now live next ot a vineyard and the hundreds of birds strip everything. So, I'm looking at building a large walk-in netted cage to house a ra

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Raspberry canes anyone?

My raspberries were fabulous last year but  are popping up new suckers in places they shouldn't this year.  If anyone is interested and willing to come around and dig  up  the suckers , they are welcome to them. They take 2 - 3 years to really start

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starting new vege beds

Sorry added this as comment b4 didn't know there was a special discussion spot.  I am just starting up a new vege patch and have noticed my neighbours have haylage they are not using.  Do you think this would be ok to add in to my new plots perhaps a

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Ooooby Stall in Hamilton??

Hi everyone.

How much interest is there in Hamilton (and the greater Waikato) in taking on the project of getting an Ooooby stall up and running at the local Farmers' Market?

The seed and seedling swaps have been really successful, and there are clearl

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Hamilton Fringe Festival 2011

Hi,

 

This years' Fringe isn't until September, but registrations have opened so if there are any gardeners/gardener-artists out there who would like to get involved or maybe even undertake a project then please msg me for details!

 

Cheer,

meg

 

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Worms

Hi,

I am making a worm farm and wondering where I would get the worms in hamilton?  Does any anyone have any they wish to sell or know where I can source them.  Many thanks

Sonya

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olive trees and yellow leaves

Hi there everyone I wonder if anyone else has olive trees and whether you've got the problem I'm having with the leaves starting to yellow (with a few dark spots on them) and fall off. Not all the leaves but a small %. I've sprayed with copper hydro

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Horse poo

The Waikato Equine Centre says you can collect some horse poo from them, free of charge.In fact if you phone them first they will arrange for a tractor to load your trailer. Also Trent Overtone says you can collect from him too. His number is 8243058

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