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Top 10 Must Have Fruit Trees To Grow in the Sub-tropics
My Top 10 Fruit trees to grow in the Sub-tropics I was giving a presentation to a Horticultural group the other day about Edible Gardening, and mentioned that my Tropical Apricot fruit tree has finally deigned to flower! The group were very interested in an Apricot...
Good Bugs for the Vegetable Garden
Did you know that there are good bugs we need to survive? I raise this as many gardeners reach for chemical poisons to deal with insect and pest invasions. They do this without thinking these poisons also affect the good bugs! This was demonstrated following the...
Top 10 Must Have Herbs To Grow in Your Garden
I was going to call this Blog The Top 10 Herbs to grow in your vegetable garden. But Herbs are just such awesome plants that I like to plant them throughout my garden, not limit them to the vegetable or herb garden! There are over 100 different herbs that grow easily...
Do You Want to Multiply Your Plants for free?
Cuttings are a great way to multiply your plants for free. That rosemary plant that you love. Or the gardenia that gives such beautiful flowers. Or that Camellia bush with the red and white striped flowers that your friend has and that you covet! All these plants can...
Companion Planting in Australia
Why use Companion Planting in Australia? I was reading a blog the other day that said that companion planting was a gardening concept that worked a treat in the northern hemisphere, but not so well down here in Australia. This made me wonder what was meant by this...
Are Your expectations realistic of Mother nature?
I wonder how many people have unrealistic expectations of Mother Nature? I ask this because I was talking to a gardener the other day who was complaining that none of the orchid fertilisers worked. So, I asked her which fertilisers she had tried and what had been the...