grrrrrr.... when i go out at night my plants (lettuce, tatsoi, coriander,peas, spinach and celery in particular) are hosting a ridiculous number...
Re: Bugs under lettuce leaves i have the same situation, with healthy, prolific lettuce and these black, aphid-like bugs. i live in coastal...
Re: eggplant as a perennial? found the answer to my question. they ended up developing a mould. pulled them up today, 1st day of winter, and...
Re: Learning to grow organic on a similarly tight budget, i went to my local library and borrowed permaculture and organic gardening books,...
Re: eggplant as a perennial? well, Sue, my veggie patch is nothing if not an interesting experiment :lol: .it only started a little less than a...
I live in coastal victoria and do not experience frosts. in my readings i found reference to eggplants as being treated as a perennial in...
i'm still fuzzy on how far apart plants that are bad companions should be located. just one eg.: i want to plant peas and garlic. do they need...
came out to find a dead rat in our tomato patch this morning, just where our tigerellas are. a cute looking thing;it had somehow managed to trap...
we went about getting our first chooks by going to a breeder who kept his chooks in excellent condition and bought three breeds to see what suited...
i was walking my daughter around the vege patch explaining a few things when i got to a groundcherry bush. there on the ground was our first ever...
why not a herb garden for people walking by to pick from? it will look beautiful, look after itself and be productive and a special treat for...
hi len, it's not my recipe, and i have no idea if it even works. i saw it on a noticeboard at one of my workplaces. but feel free to post it. i...
i came across a recipe for a treatment for these two problems and was wondering if anyone has used it, and to what effect? 10g sheoak needles...
oh, Richard, i got onto the site, delighted that someone had found a relevant thread when i hadn't been able to...unfortunately it's the thread i...
thanks all. richard, the byp site is down at the moment, but i'll try again later. i have also posted the question there. grr.. i caught the...
the info has been very useful. i'm new to all this, and in between trying not to kill my chickens and keeping crows off the veges and water to the...
thanks for the feedback. we were lucky to plant them in may and have ahd a lovely snowpea crop. i had free-range kids there for a while! after a...
I haven't had any luck with my searching in the forum, so here is my question: my peas have developed some sort of nasty. the leaves have white...
thanks for the tips about both plants. i certainly like the idea of the ground cherries growing like weeds. i have grown the strawberries in a...
hi! i have some alpine strawberries and ground cherries i would like to plant out. i've grown them from diggers seeds and am curious- how tall do...
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