Serious composting - making good compost  Get a 25 foot roll of wire fencing with 2 X 4 inch spacing and 2 foot tall, unroll it and cut into two pcs. 12 and a half ft each.

When you cut it go ...

Eliminate weeds and ants with boiling water  We used to use poisons to remove the little weeds in-between the bricks on our patio, and also the ants that enjoyed the sand foundation the bricks were ...

Being water wise was killing my plant. - How to drain a water logged garden  A few months back I built a new raised garden bed to take a couple of Dwarf apple trees (one Pink Lady and a Granny Smith)as both are required for cross ...

Its a Whopper - huge potato  First we had knobby potatoes from infrequent watering, now after regular rains we have this!

Safe to use Tyres in Gardens?  G'day Folks,
For more years than I care to remember I have been advocating the use of old tyres for use in gardens. At the same time ...

Green Manure crops and Nematodes.  G‘Day Folks,
I just thought, that I would add to a subject that Megan touched on in an earlier answer on no dig gardens and that ...

What to do with that spare tire...  I moved into my home a little over a year ago. The previous owners were so generous that they decided to leave a bunch of their old junk for us. (Gee thanks....

Building Biodiversity in the Soil  In an organic or chemical free garden, the soil is the most important component. In fact healthy soil, water and air, are the most important resources ...

Pickled Carrots  Hi guys, I live in Victoria in Australia. I think it might be climatically like LA. We plant in November which is the end of spring here. I get to have ...

Story of the Yellow Pear Tomatoes  Tomatoes I love to hate.....

First you must know I now live in Washington State and have lived in both Western WA and Eastern WA. and moved back to ...

Experimental Straw Bale Gardening  Hi. Like your site and the message. This is a recent interview about our experimental strawbale garden up here in NorCal.

Willitstv.org
Episode ...

Vertical Garden Ideas using fabrics and grid wire  Here's a tip on how to convert basic jute and coconut strips into an amazing vertical garden design.

Convert recycled coffee bags or burlap cloth from ...

cooking and eating asparagus  Some tips about asparagus:

Firstly, they are best eaten as soon as picked, or at least in a few days. They seem to loose some sweetness and the tips ...

Yarrow Fertiliser  With the verges of the highways and byways around my patch in Wellington showing plenty of Yarrow in flower and the WWW listing hundreds of comments on ...

Latest produce from the garden  Have a look at the latest produce from the garden.

My wife made the mango chutney and the tangelo and lemon marmalade on the weekend. The mangoes are ...

Home grown pickled onions  Pickled onions are coming along.

Just made these pickled onions. Used a few of my own spices and herbs in the mix. I have a good crop of pepper and ...

Straw Bale Carrots - Growing carrots in straw bales  Try Carrots in your straw bales...they are awesome...they even seem to grow well to a good size when a little over-crowded. They are great!
I have about ...