Liquid Foliar Sprays and Fertilisers
Foliar sprays are a great way of giving your vegetable plants an immediate boost while at the same time providing an ongoing supply of nutrients to the overall plant. There are several foliar sprays commercially available and heaps you can make yourself at home. Some foliar sprays are obvious and easy to make others sound a bit strange and are perhaps less common…
October 11, 2010
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Organic Ingredients – Grass Hay – The Older and Wetter the Better
Grass hay is an excellent organic ingredient for the backyard gardener. It has in the past been avoided due to the possibility of transferring weed seeds into the vegetable garden but quality composting methods have slowly made it a more popular ingredient…
June 13, 2010
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Organic Ingredients – 5 tips for using seaweed in the garden
Seaweed is one of those garden additives that people either swear by or fear. Seaweed has by default a large quantity of sodium in it. Plants do not need sodium for growth and if they did, ground sodium at minute levels is ample…
May 28, 2010
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Organic in the Garden – Why use a compost Bin?
We all know that compost is good for the Garden. We know what to put in a compost. But why should we use a compost bin? Well, to be perfectly honest, you don’t need a bin, cage or any structure to make compost. The ideal compost would be made in the open air. Perhaps in furrows or in long rows. Covers can be used if desired…
May 20, 2010
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Organic in the Garden – 6 Uses for Home Made Compost
No garden is complete without a Backyard compost heap. It’s a great place to get rid of your old lawn clippings, leaves, shredded branches and cardboard and newspaper. Its always a good idea to work with 2 or 3 separate compost heaps. While one is full and in the process of becoming compost, the other is being filled. I like to use the third bin just in case the second one is full and there first one is not quiet ready…
May 16, 2010
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Breaking Tradition with Composting
Ask any gardener and they will likely tell you the best three ingredients for a garden patch is Compost, Compost and more Compost. Anything that was once alive is often what we are told should be added to a compost heap – with the exception of meat scraps, citrus and onions. I like to break with tradition when making compost…
May 16, 2010
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The way of the future – 5 positive permaculture practices
Growing, Picking and cooking your own home grown fruit and vegetables is an exciting time. The health benefits are obvious. And although the growing of fruit and vegetables forms a large part of a backyard permaculture system, there is a lot more to permaculture than just growing things.
May 14, 2010
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