Vegetable Gardening Tips

A Gardeners' Gallery of Vegetable Gardening Tips, Pictures and Stories

This is YOUR gardeners' gallery page for pictures, vegetable gardening tips, organic tricks, no-dig gardening tips, triumphs and oops-a-daisy moments!

This is where YOU can contribute and read about other gardeners and their experiences, from bugs, beetles, and backs... to countries, compost and cuppas.

I can't promise everything will be published, but if you have something about gardening that just HAS to be shared with other gardeners... then this is your gardeners' gallery. (Fill in form at end.)

There's no vegetable gardening tips here from me, but to start the ball rolling, here's a picture of me... Megan. I must dig out a gardening photo! But meanwhile here's a kookaburra being fed on my balcony in Sydney.

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Kookaburra feeding

No dig raised garden step-by-step photos
The reader leading the way�in fact this is all his fault � is Les, a quintessential Australian. He's taken some excellent photos that clearly show the steps for gardeners to take in preparing a no dig garden. Les a no dig gardener

Here's what Les has to say:
"Since building these garden beds, I have gone on to share this idea with others, including building eight beds 4m x 2m (13ft x 6�ft) for a men's shed complex near where I live. These are about 1m (3ft) high to allow access by wheelchair bound people as well as those able bodied people who have bad backs."
Les Boucher

Click here to see Les' no dig gardening tips photos on our Raised Vegetable Garden page.

Scroll to the end for your vegetable gardening tips submission form.

Bug brew. We can thank Linda from Australia for this natural gardening tip to repel bugs and caterpillars. Linda's reluctance to harm pets and birds with toxic sprays led her to this handy alternative:

In a large pot, add about 2 litres of water, 6-7 garlic cloves, 20-30 black peppercorns, 5-10 Nasturtium leaves and boil for 5-10 minutes. (All amounts can vary depending what's available)
Leave brew to cool, strain into bottle or jar, put on lid and don't forget to LABLE it!
Fill a spray bottle with the brew and spray plants as required, suggest 2-3 times a week when required.
Dig a small hole in pot plants which are being hassled by bugs and place in one of the boiled garlic cloves.
Like all good cooks, throughly clean your pot afterwards.

Light and seedlings. Annette from Robertson, South Africa, wants to get her veggies growing early because of spiraling vegetables prices, and asks: Can I use the energy saver light bulbs for seedlings? Any special colour, like warm white?

I replied that I know LED, and even florescent lights use less heat, so the incandescent light bulb would be best to help warm seedlings, but if she wanted to trick the seedlings into thinking it was the long days of summer, then any lights would do. Who knows more?

From a reader in USA comes some natural beauty remedies from plants. Until our new Natural Remedies page is ready, here's one you may like:

Skin Toner
3 cups witch hazel
1 cup dried rose petals
5 sprigs fresh rosemary
Mix ingredients together and blend well. Strain.
Splash on your face after washing. Lovely!

Birds and CDs. To add to your vegetable garden tips, here's one from Kevin in UK:
Use the free internet cd's from shops and magazines to scare the birds from your crops. Hang them from fishing line or string.

Bulb surprises. Liza from Gordon, Australia says:
Love bulbs, they are surprises, especially when planted and forgotten. With the new seasons there they are, along with other changes in the garden. With all the different plants we have growing, the birdlife love it.

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