Lisa, Depends where you live. In the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, they are considered a pest because of their invasive self...
Thanks Sweetpea - we've put a layer of charcoal filled soil over the stubble, and a thick layer of straw over that. Now we'll leave it fallow for...
We've had a mighty crop of broad beans - after waiting so long for them to put out some beans that we were on the point of hacking them down. I...
Blue quandong can be a majestic tree when it gets up - a very tall buttressed rainforest tree which likes growing near streams. Also good for...
Does anyone know of any organic or natural de-worming products for cattle which are available in Australia? Our cattle keeping neighbours tell us...
Paradisi, Interested to see that you net against fruit fly. I put the lure in a bottle which traps male fruit flies, then hang an organic poison...
For mulch, and available not far from the Gold Coast is sugar cane straw - sold for about $4.50 (if that hasn't gone up by now) from the sugar...
Yes, that's them. Last night I burned the barbecue next to an infected mandarin, and today there are no monolepta on it, although some of the...
I checked out citrus thrips and it definitely isn't them. A friend said they are Monoliptus bugs - and that you can get them by lighting a fire...
Our citrus trees are being attacked by hundreds of little flying bugs - they look like miniature cockroaches, about 2 or 3 millimetres long, light...
Deep forking and potatoes: We got our broadfork from Gundaroo Tillers, thanks for the link Floot. I have dug over an area for our next spud bed,...
I've recently had dozens of strawberry plants to redeploy, after putting new raised beds in the vege garden. Looking in a book I have, 'Companion...
Len - thanks for your thoughts. We've got more frost predicted for next Sunday to Wednesday, but since all the frost-sensitive trees and plants...
Our area suffered some nights going down to -6C in the last couple of weeks when we happened to be away on a family emergency trip to Melbourne....
Great discussion, thanks to IG for sharing this inspiring experiment, and to Floot for his suggestion of that deep soil moving fork, and Logos...
We've just had a disastrous season with our mangoes. First the damp weather caused at least 3/4 of the crop to be wiped out by some black fungal...
In the book 'Bamboo World' (I think that's the correct title - it's written by the bloke who set up Bamboo World in New South Wales), it's claimed...
Well we finally caught the villain redhanded - I went out about 6:30 with a torch, and there he was, pointy nosed and beady eyed, frozen in the...
Yes, it seems most likely to be bandicoots. We haven't yet been able to check thoroughly if there's a hole in the wire mesh, too much foliage. But...
Thanks Len and Nibbler. We are not actually sure that they are bandicoots. Possums are a possibility. The ground is left worked over as if...
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