Growing
Here's the place to discuss how to grow fruit and vegetables, including how to improve the soil and the requirements of particular plants.
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Community Gardening
A community garden is a single piece of land gardened by a group of people. The garden may consist of individual plots (sometimes called allotments) and/or areas that are gardened communally.
Many WIC members are interested in participating in comm
Training
Find out about gardening, cooking and related training - mostly in Hamilton & Tokoroa, Waikato, NZ - including workshops and demonstrations run by WIC.
Over the coming months WIC is looking at running a range of workshops including:
* Growing vegeta
Read more…Eating!
So you've grown broccoli, but how do you eat it? Here's the place to:
- ask how to prepare your produce using healthy recipes
- share your healthy recipes or ask how a traditional recipe might be made healthier
- how to store and preserve your surplus fo
Health
This is the place to find information and ask questions about gardening as exercise and health issues related to gardening, such as:
- Back care
- Calories burned
- Sun burn
- Tetanus
- Care around potting mix
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(See also the Eating discussion)
Read more…Weather Climate Soil
Weather is about the wind, rain, sunniness and temperature of a particular time. It is one of Kiwi's favourite topics of conversation, and even more so amongst gardeners! Our uneven terrain makes weather prediction difficult, but you can find weather
Read more…Creatures in the garden
Moving to a new country means discovering new creatures in your back yard. This is the place to talk about the wild things in your garden: what are they, and how do they help or hinder your gardening.
Read more…Propagation - new plants from seed, cuttings, division, etc
Propagation = making new plants.
The cheapest way to grow your own vegetables is to grow them from seed, especially if you have saved the seed from last year's plants. Other ways of propagating plants include taking cuttings, division and grafting.
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